by design | Apr 25, 2016 | The Daily Focus
It has been a week filled with long House Floor sessions this week in Nashville. However, we made progress on a few key issues. This week I would like to turn your attention to an announcement made by Speaker of the House, Beth Harwell, and Governor Haslam. For the...
by design | Apr 24, 2016 | The Daily Focus
The Spy Guy, a not so secret agent, is joining Danny Dragonbreath and the very curious Ladybug Girl in World’s Fair Park to celebrate the end of the school year and the start of summer. Knox County Public Library invites readers of all ages to celebrate...
by design | Apr 24, 2016 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Halls celebrates changes to outdoor classroom By Ken Lay The Halls High School jazz band played some standards while the school and Halls Community had a celebration in the school’s outdoor classroom. There were games for the kids, ice cream and barbecue as...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 24, 2016 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Recently, there has been a rash of threats in our schools. It seems like every passing day, someone has threatened to blow up a particular school or there is some other threat of serious violence. Superintendent Jim McIntyre simply murmurs some vague...
by Ray Hill | Apr 24, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Willis Robertson has been gone for almost forty-five years, but for decades he was an important figure in Congress and a member of perhaps the most genteel political machine in the country. Today, if he is remembered at all, it is because he was the father...
by design | Apr 24, 2016 | Absher, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Sally Absher McIntyre to Head Center for Educational Leadership KCS Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre, who will be stepping down from his $227,256 position in July, has been hired to head the Center for Educational Leadership at the University of Tennessee. He will...
by design | Apr 24, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com “We carry the best in basic boutique fashion and specialize in brands like Intro, UMGE, Jodifl and Pol,” said Hello Beautiful Boutique’s Haley Arroyo. Haley and her mother Heather opened the new fashion shop at 113 E Emory Road in...
by Mark Nagi | Apr 24, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Alex Norman On Saturday, April 16th, Tennessee concluded spring practice with the annual Orange & White Game. The Orange defeated the White 70-63 with a scoring system even the brightest minds at M.I.T. could not master. Many of the announced crowd of more...
by design | Apr 24, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Babe Ruth made 60 one of the great numbers in sports when he hit that many home runs in 1927. And just recently, Kobe Bryant’s farewell NBA performance was made even grander when he scored 60 points. The number 60 is special for high school shot...
by design | Apr 24, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay A little overtime netted a historic victory for the Hardin Valley Academy softball team Thursday night at Farragut High School’s Bellamy Field. It took eight innings but the Lady Hawks, who made the Class AAA State Tournament for the first time in 2015,...
