by design | Mar 21, 2016 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore When my children were youngsters in elementary school, they would hurry home to watch TV. They didn’t watch Lost In Space, The Twilight Zone, Hogan’s Heroes, or Gunsmoke. They watched a program for children narrated by a laid-back, soft-spoken...
by Joe Rector | Mar 21, 2016 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I went to visit Farragut High School on Thursday afternoon a couple of weeks ago for a concert band festival. My brother Jim, who is helping the band in Lenoir City, asked me to drop by so the kids could see his twin. A prior engagement prevented me from...
by design | Mar 21, 2016 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher It’s Budget Time for the Board of Education The Knox County Board of Education will hold its mid-month work session on Wednesday, March 23, at 5 pm in the Boardroom on the first floor of the Andrew Johnson Building (912 Gay Street). This month’s...
by design | Mar 21, 2016 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher That is the directive on the TNReady test. Teachers are forbidden to look at or talk about the tests. And parents are certainly not allowed to see the tests! You just have to trust that everything lines up with the standards and the curriculum, the way...
by design | Mar 21, 2016 | The Daily Focus
By Mike Steely Delegates from the 2nd Congressional District’s Democratic Party met recently to select five members to attend their national convention this year in Philadelphia, Pa. Both the campaigns of Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were...
by design | Mar 20, 2016 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
‘Toughness’ pulls Fulton through in state opener By Steve Williams Jody Wright had a lot to fuss about after Fulton’s opening game in the TSSAA Class AA state basketball tournament, but he summed up in two words the most positive thing he would take away from his...
by design | Mar 20, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The national media is already doing all it can to buck up President Barak Obama in the pending battle to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Republicans are being heckled and attacked because of their obvious...
by design | Mar 20, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill In 1932, Henry Horton was still governor of Tennessee. He was eligible to seek reelection to another two-year term, but with the collapse of Caldwell and Company just after the 1930 election, Horton had barely survived being impeached. Although he did...
by Ralphine Major | Mar 20, 2016 | Columnist, Major, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ralphine Major Mother Nature is putting on a show! She is covering winter’s drab canvas by weaving a tapestry of beauty. Only days from the official start of spring, the earth is bursting forth with new life and new growth. Driving down the highway, we seemed to...
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By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com What are you doing Easter Morning? Have you ever been to a Sunrise Service? Bet you don’t know the origin of those events. As early as 1732 the Moravian Church held Easter Morning Prayer services in Saxony. Following the prayers...
