by Joe Rector | Mar 16, 2015 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Recently, I rode in a van with fellow workers back from a trip to deliver cars to Nashville. At some point, I started listening to my iPod to help pass the time. It’s surprising just how much listening to music has changed in my lifetime. My first...
by Mark Nagi | Mar 16, 2015 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman The commonly held view was that Tennessee, losers of 8 of their previous 10 games, would be a quick out at the SEC Tournament. But if we learned anything about this Vols basketball team, it is to expect that they won’t go quietly. In Tennessee’s first...
by Steve Williams | Mar 16, 2015 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Forget the protesting, the petition, the pleading. If fans really want to make a statement regarding the pending takeaway of the iconic Lady Vol logo and nickname from all University of Tennessee women’s athletic teams except basketball, they’ll...
by Ralphine Major | Mar 16, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major He was the only sophomore on the team. Gene Cantley played guard for Head Coach Bob Dagley’s 1964-65 Gibbs Eagles when he was called on as the team marched toward their 31-2 record. Dagley remembers the player who wore No. 12. “He was able to...
by design | Mar 16, 2015 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore The potato famine in Ireland lasted from 1845-1852. In the 1800’s Ireland was an agricultural nation populated by eight million persons who were among the poorest people in the Western world. Only about a quarter of the population could read or write....
by design | Mar 16, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Aches and pains are a fact of life as you get older. I don’t remember a lot of painful conditions as a kid, even with injuries. My brothers and I often went barefoot in those halcyon days of summer, and I remember a “stone bruise” of my heel that...
by design | Mar 16, 2015 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher March has been officially designated by the National Association for Music Education for the observance of Music in Our Schools Month, the time of the year when music education becomes the focus of schools across the nation. Last Tuesday evening, over...
by design | Mar 16, 2015 | Public Notice
75 FORECLOSURES SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE Sale at public auction will be on April 27, 2015 on or about 11:00AM local time, at the North door, Knox County Courthouse, Knoxville, Tennessee, conducted by the Substitute Trustee as identified and set forth herein...
by Mike Steely | Mar 15, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Ever been surprised by something you didn’t expect but it made you happy to find it? So, I’m watching one of my favorite movies, “The African Queen,” and at the end I watched the credits and saw that Knoxville’s James Agee wrote...
by design | Mar 15, 2015 | Archived Editions, Archives
Broadway, I-640 plans detailed By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The Tennessee Department of Transportation has big plans to rework an area of Broadway north of I-640 over the next couple of years and most Fountain City residents seem pleased. Most,...
