by design | Apr 3, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Powell Orange’s 6U coed team was the youngest of the teams to win a Knox County tournament championship in local youth basketball this season. See team photos of all seven Knox County champions and the 11 Knoxville champions on Page C2 in this week’s issue...
by design | Apr 3, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay After opening the 2016 season by losing four of its first six games, the Farragut High School softball game is in the midst of a three-game winning streak. The Lady Admirals (5-5 overall, 3-1 in District 4-AAA) opened the week with a 14-0 victory over rival...
by Ralphine Major | Apr 3, 2016 | Columnist, Major, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ralphine Major You may be one of the Focus readers who has been privileged to hear them sing in one of the more than 175 churches or assisted living facilities over the years. I have always known them as “The TOTS,” an acronym for “The Old Time Singers,”—...
by design | Apr 3, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay Bearden High School boys soccer coach Ryan Radcliffe finally saw his team produce the results he wanted when it focused and went back to basics. “Credit Gallatin,” Radcliffe said after his Bulldogs notched a 4-1 win over the Green Wave Thursday night...
by design | Apr 3, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Youth sports have always meant a lot to Joe Ward and still do. Ward played his first basketball game as an 11-year-old in the Griffin (Ga.) Spalding County Parks and Recreation Department’s youth program in the mid-1970s. He went on to earn Coaches’...
by Ray Hill | Apr 3, 2016 | Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Few men have been as colorful as John Nance Garner of Texas. Garner spent thirty-eight years in Washington, D. C., and the last eight as vice president under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yet, Garner shunned the limelight, preferring to make his considerable...
by Mike Steely | Apr 3, 2016 | Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mikes Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Knoxville is celebrating 225 years this year and you probably don’t realize that the city and its county have some 111 places on the National Register of Historic Sites. That includes not only historic homes and buildings but also...
by design | Apr 3, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Emily Ann Roberts signs Camille Clark’s autograph at the CTE Goes Live kick off held last Wednesday at Toyota Knoxville. Roberts won last year’s event and went on to place second in the television show The Voice. CTE Goes Live will be held on May 6 at Market Square,...
by design | Apr 3, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mikes Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Katie’s Kloset Consignment just might be your new favorite place to shop. Open since 2000 in Alcoa, Katie’s Kloset is now open in West Knoxville. The family owned business located in the Cedar Springs Shopping Center is more than...
by design | Apr 1, 2016 | The Daily Focus
Sunday morning’s Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon is the biggest in its 12 years – boasting about 8,000 runners in six race events. But to accommodate East Tennessee’s largest competitive road race, motorists should anticipate some temporary no-parking zones and...
