by Ray Hill | Jul 24, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Hill McAlister had finally achieved his dream of serving as governor of Tennessee after two hard fought failed campaigns. The descendant of two governors, McAlister had run a strong race against incumbent Austin Peay when the latter was seeking a third...
by design | Jul 24, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Powell High football fans have a lot to look forward to this season. The Panthers’ offense is way ahead of where it was this time a year ago and their defense already is better than last year’s, says head coach Rodney Ellison. “We look completely...
by design | Jul 24, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams A few of the Karns players could be seen being consoled by a parent after their season ended one win short of the State Little League tournament finals Wednesday night at Karns. Such scenes are quick reminders that these are just 11-year-old boys....
by design | Jul 24, 2016 | The Daily Focus
By Mike Steely An agenda of some 54 items was passed on to their regular meeting tomorrow night when the Knox County Commission met in work session last week, including a resolution to extend a 20-year lease of a former school for use as a Head Start program....
by design | Jul 23, 2016 | The Daily Focus
Still no mosquito-borne transmission in continental U.S. Knoxville, Tenn. – The Knox County Health Department (KCHD) received laboratory confirmation today from the Tennessee Department of Health of Knox County’s first Zika virus case. The individual recently...
by design | Jul 22, 2016 | The Daily Focus
The Knoxville Community Band will give a free concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 24, at the Tennessee Amphitheatre at World’s Fair Park. The concert will include a tribute to former Lady Vols Coach Pat Summitt with the performance of “Tennessee Salute,” a medley of...
by design | Jul 22, 2016 | The Daily Focus
What was announced last fall is now official: Regal Entertainment Group will be moving its corporate headquarters and at least 345 employees to an anchor location on the South Waterfront, on the former Baptist Hospital site next to the Gay Street Bridge. ...
by design | Jul 22, 2016 | The Daily Focus
Five major downtown improvement projects – ranging from completing the reconstruction of the entire 700 block of South Gay Street to replacing 27,000 square feet of brick sidewalks on four blocks of Gay Street – are underway or soon will be started. Those...
by design | Jul 22, 2016 | The Daily Focus
By Sylvia Williams A New FCAC Open Competition: Photography! Barry Seaton and Clay Thurston will be the judges for our very first “just photography” competition on exhibit from July 29 – August 26. If you or your friends and family would like to enter, you can get the...
by design | Jul 21, 2016 | The Daily Focus
Zoo Knoxville is throwing a pachyderm-sized party to celebrate the 2016 birthdays of Tonka, Jana and Edie, the zoo’s African elephants, at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, July 22. The celebration will take place in the elephants’ habitat in the zoo’s Grasslands Africa...
