by design | Aug 18, 2016 | The Daily Focus
The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville, in cooperation with the local arts community, is proud to announce the seventh year of Penny4Arts, a program developed to meet the local arts community’s long-term goal of serving and educating East...
by design | Aug 17, 2016 | The Daily Focus
The Tennessee football team will hold 2016 walk-on tryouts on Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Anderson Training Center. Tryouts for Team 120 will start at 6:30 a.m. ET and consist of speed and agility drills and position-specific skill evaluations with Tennessee...
by design | Aug 17, 2016 | The Daily Focus
Knoxville Children’s Theatre (KCT) will hold auditions on Thursday, September 8 for the upcoming stage production of “The Haunting of Hill House.” The novel by Shirley Jackson (author of “The Lottery”) was a Finalist for the 1959 National Book Award. The audition...
by design | Aug 16, 2016 | The Daily Focus
Safety at work, at home and in the community! Why? Because accidents know no boundaries and safety shouldn’t either. It’s needed everywhere. Once a year, an event is held to promote safer workplaces, home-life, and communities by offering free safety and health...
by design | Aug 15, 2016 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher Inskip Elementary Students Receive School Supplies Enrichment Federal Credit Union’s North Knoxville Branch delivered school supplies to Inskip Elementary School to make sure all students have the proper supplies to have a productive and educational...
by design | Aug 15, 2016 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher Knox County high school students returned to school this fall to find their schedule has been revised to accommodate something called “RTI2.” This year marks the final phase of the implementation of RTI, the education framework used across the...
by Joe Rector | Aug 15, 2016 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I’ve become a millennial! It happened without my knowing what was happening. My reason for saying this is that I’m changing part time jobs again. After almost a year at Toyota of Knoxville, my body is aching from the walking on concrete all day long. If...
by design | Aug 15, 2016 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore Traditionally, historians tend to think ancient Egypt was the site of cat domestication, owing to the clear depictions of house cats in Egyptian paintings about 3600 years ago. However, in 2004, a grave excavated in Cyprus, contained the skeletons, laid...
by Ralphine Major | Aug 15, 2016 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major They moved from Union County to Knox County in 1912 and joined Fairview Baptist Church in Corryton, Tennessee. The Knisley family began a long association with the church and community. Since that time, there have been children, grandchildren, or...
by design | Aug 15, 2016 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson For thousands or millions of years – depending on your interpretation of science and scripture – mankind has had a symbiotic relationship with bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract or “gut.” In fact, a depletion or eradication of...
