by design | Jan 18, 2015 | Absher, Archives, Columnist
By Sally Absher sallyabsher@knoxfocus.com For this week’s Special Education feature, The Focus spoke with Patti Quinton, the mother of four beautiful girls. Caitlyn, 20, is currently a junior at the University of Tennessee. Kristen, 15, is a sophomore at the L &...
by Ray Hill | Jan 18, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Tennessee has been quite fortunate in oftentimes having an excellent Congressional delegation. The landscape and economic condition of Tennessee would be much different had it not been for the ability of some of our Congressional delegation to secure...
by design | Jan 18, 2015 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Here and there around Knox County are several noted buildings that many people pass without knowing the story behind the structures. There are lots of early structures that have a unique beginning and have survived the years to be...
by design | Jan 18, 2015 | Archives
By Alex Norman In 2014 the Tennessee Volunteers had a winning season for the first time in five years, back when Lane Kiffin was head coach. They also picked up their first bowl game victory since 2008, back when Phillip Fulmer was head coach. Butch Jones has this...
by design | Jan 18, 2015 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Sam Springer had a baseball summer to remember in 2014. The National Amateur Baseball Federation recognized it too by naming the West pitcher to its 2015 high school preseason All-America team. Springer, a left-hander who will be a junior for the...
by design | Jan 13, 2015 | News, The Daily Focus
Every third Thursday of the month, the Seymour Area Chamber of Commerce (S.A.C.C.) members get together for a morning breakfast to build their business relationships. The Chamber had a lot to celebrate at its breakfast meeting in December, hosted by...
by design | Jan 13, 2015 | Knox County, The Daily Focus
By Mike Steely Cassius Marcellus Clay, Kentucky’s controversial politician, Civil War ambassador to Russia, and emancipationist will be the topic of historian Ed Archer’s speech on Tuesday, January 13, before the Knoxville Civil War Roundtable. Archer, the...
by design | Jan 12, 2015 | Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Roy Coil Brooks Sr. Docket Number 75084-2 Notice is hereby given that on the 8th day of January, 2015, letters administration in respect of the Estate of Roy Coil Brooks Sr. who died Mar 5, 2014, were issued the undersigned by the Clerk...
by design | Jan 12, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Through some curious twist of fate the magazine Southern Living comes to our home addressed to me. To the best of my knowledge my only subscriptions are dry as toast medical journals. Though I’m proud to call myself a southerner, I’ve never...
by design | Jan 12, 2015 | Columnist, Moore
Well, here I am writing about food again. It came to my mind because of my tradition of eating pork and sauerkraut on New Year’s Day, which is a Pennsylvania tradition. Sauerkraut, directly translated “sour cabbage” has been fermented by various lactic acid bacteria,....
