by Joe Rector | Aug 17, 2015 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector The other morning, Facebook filled with photos of children posing in new clothes and shoes and with the latest back packs and lunch boxes. The official first day of school for Knox County and some other area schools brought in hordes of kids and...
by Ralphine Major | Aug 17, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It is a scene right out of rural America—little Abbey and her grandfather riding on a John Deere tractor on a gorgeous summer evening with those “spacious skies” and mountains in the background and the American flag blowing...
by design | Aug 17, 2015 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore Rev. Dale E. Marshall is our interim minister at my church until we get a permanent one. One Sunday he mentioned in his sermon “bumper stickers”–I don’t really remember in what context he mentioned those words, but, immediately my mind began...
by design | Aug 17, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson To experience wonderful things you sometimes have to move out of your comfort zone. This can be a willingness to consider the perspectives of others or it can be a willingness to travel. These days, destination weddings are in vogue. My...
by Steve Williams | Aug 17, 2015 | Williams
By Steve Williams It was a high school football season opener worth recalling. I can’t remember ever seeing a better one, and that’s going back to the mid-1960s. On Aug. 23, 2013, I was covering the Carter at Gibbs opener for The Knoxville Focus. On this night, I took...
by design | Aug 17, 2015 | Public Notice
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE WHEREAS, default has occurred in the performance of the covenants, terms and conditions of a Deed of Trust dated May 28, 2010, executed by SHELBY EDWARDS, conveying certain real property therein described to...
by design | Aug 16, 2015 | Archived Editions, Archives
Overflow crowd at Botanical Garden Welcome Center By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com More than two hundred people, including current, future and past elected officials, attended the dedication of the new Welcome Center Friday at the Knoxville Botanical Garden and...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 16, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hunley
By Steve Hunley By this time, readers of The Knoxville Focus realize you won’t find the voice of the political or business establishment inside these pages. We have plenty of other local media for that. Yet some folks are mighty slow in realizing the general public...
by design | Aug 16, 2015 | Archives
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The Parrott-Wood Memorial Library in Strawberry Plains will have a state of the art computer lab thanks to a $9,000 grant. Donna Phillips, director of the library at 3133 Old Andrew Johnson Highway, announced the grant last...
by Ray Hill | Aug 16, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Luke Lea had not only survived the intense political wars in Tennessee, but had profited from them. Elected to the United States Senate in 1911, Lea’s alliance with “Independent” Democrats and Republicans had created a “fusionist” combine that held the...
