by Mike Steely | Mar 27, 2016 | Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com It has been said that if it wasn’t for Tennessee there would be no Texas. That saying refers to the influx of people from our state to what was then the northern territory of Mexico and the number of those people who promoted and...
by Mike Steely | Mar 27, 2016 | Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The city’s two-year pilot project to allow and regulate food trucks is on the way to becoming an official ordinance and, overall, the trial program has been very successful. But the Community Forum has some hard questions about...
by Ray Hill | Mar 27, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Tennessee, like every other state in the union, had been devastated by the Great Depression. The suffering in Tennessee was accentuated by the fact almost seven million dollars in state money had been lost when Caldwell and Company, one of the largest...
by Mike Steely | Mar 27, 2016 | Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Mike Brown is known as being the “bulldog” of the Knox County Commission due to his eight years of speaking his mind as commissioner. His words are often colored with unique, descriptive and folksy phrasing that gets his point...
by design | Mar 27, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Fulton’s basketball team built a comfortable first-half lead in the TSSAA Class AA state championship game, but veteran head coach Jody Wright knew his Falcons had to keep working. “Brainerd is the type of team you can’t relax against,” Wright told a...
by design | Mar 27, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By David Klein Gridiron. Hardwood. Diamond. High school athletes have been making names for themselves on these playing fields for years. Add lakes to that. Bassmaster Magazine, the bible of bass fisherman, named 18-year old Karns High School senior Jake Lee, a...
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by Steve Williams | Mar 27, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
By Steve Williams Charlie Byrd introduced his sons to the game of baseball years ago. He coached them and watched them play in many games. But what his eyes saw on a beautiful early spring afternoon last week was a first. Matt and Jonathan “Turtle” Byrd were on...
by design | Mar 27, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Keep an eye on Cole Rheinecker. The Central High freshman stood out with the glove and bat and on the mound to lead his team to a doubleheader sweep over visiting Giles County at Bud Bales Field Wednesday. In the Battle of the Bobcats and matchup of...
by design | Mar 27, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay Carmelo Venero saw an opportunity to redeem himself Wednesday night and he took advantage of his chance. A senior outfielder for the Farragut High School baseball team, Venero had a rough go of things as he and the Admirals suffered their second loss of the...
