by design | Sep 14, 2016 | The Daily Focus
Funds support projects to improve the waters of Tennessee The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is now accepting grant proposals for projects that will help improve water quality statewide by reducing nonpoint source pollution. “As we all try to be good stewards...
by design | Sep 14, 2016 | The Daily Focus
Get ready, Knoxville. Authentic, big city kosher deli will be available here…for one day only. New York City is the home of kosher Jewish cuisine that can be difficult to find in smaller southern cities or outside of the Big Apple. One example is the...
by design | Sep 14, 2016 | The Daily Focus
A Monday-night season opener and seven games at Neyland Stadium highlight the 2017 Tennessee football schedule as released Tuesday by the Southeastern Conference. The Vols play 12 games over 13 weeks in 2017, with the open date coming on Oct. 7, following the...
by design | Sep 14, 2016 | The Daily Focus
Visit Knoxville is proud to announce that the Knoxville Convention Center will now have free wireless internet for future events. Visit Knoxville will implement this service via an agreement with ShowNets. For over 17 years, ShowNets has become the recognized expert...
by design | Sep 13, 2016 | The Daily Focus
The latest lab report has confirmed the presence of West Nile virus (WNV) in Culex mosquitoes in three areas of Knox County. Following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) protocol, the Knox County Health Department (KCHD) will spray for mosquitoes on...
by design | Sep 13, 2016 | The Daily Focus
Members of the Rural Metro Fire Association are set to kick off the fire fighter’s annual Fill the Boot fundraising campaign to help the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) find urgently needed treatments and cures for muscular dystrophy, ALS and related diseases...
by design | Sep 12, 2016 | Public Notice
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE WHEREAS, default has occurred in the performance of the covenants, terms and conditions of a Deed of Trust dated March 26, 2009, executed by DARRELL D. HURD, SR. , conveying certain real property therein described to...
by Ralphine Major | Sep 12, 2016 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major A magnolia tree was planted in his memory at the high school, and there is a marker near it to honor him. Tony Karnes was a Gibbs High School graduate who tragically lost his life on one of our nation’s saddest days. As millions of Americans went...
by Joe Rector | Sep 12, 2016 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector By the end of the summer, the new subdivision just up the road will be completed. Forty new houses line the streets. To my surprise, two separate tracks bordering the development have been scraped clean of topsoil, and work on phase 2 has begun. The...
by design | Sep 12, 2016 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore The hardest thing in the world to do is to love the “unlovely.” People who have hurt you, people who hate you, people who treat you meanly—yet those are the very ones that God tells us to love. I came across a little book titled “Nine Fruits of the...
