by design | Oct 26, 2014 | Archives
By Steve Williams Gibbs High’s football team took care of business Friday night and kept its playoff hopes alive. In the process, a struggling Powell program took another hit in its final home game of the season. The tone was set early. The Eagles recovered a Powell...
by design | Oct 26, 2014 | Archives
By Mike Steely The Focus has reported on bridge names around Knox County including a recent “Our Neighborhoods” story that included the Henley, Buck Karnes, Bonnyman, J. Will Taylor, Ralph Adcock and Trooper Mike Slagle bridges. This past week a bridge was named in...
by design | Oct 20, 2014 | Public Notice
75 FORECLOSURES NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEÕS SALE WHEREAS, default has occurred in the performance of the covenants, terms and conditions of a Deed of Trust dated March 4, 2010, executed by ANNA BARBER-KENT AND WILLIAM J. KENT, conveying certain real property...
by design | Oct 20, 2014 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I like to be a bit unpredictable. I want my readers to wonder what I’m going to say next. Will he write about politics or medicine? Will he launch into physics or discuss history? Maybe this week will be a sermonette or a treatise on some...
by design | Oct 20, 2014 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore In 2013 Durham had a population of 245,475 of which my son and his family are a part of. It is a colorful, creative and entrepreneurial community that continuously earns accolades as one of the best places in the world to live, work, and do business....
by Mike Steely | Oct 20, 2014 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely Sometimes you don’t have to go far to discover something new and interesting. One cool summer morning, I parked at the Knoxville Coliseum garage and walked down to the trolley stop. Like most folks who don’t live downtown I had ridden the trolley line a...
by Ralphine Major | Oct 20, 2014 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major He is the only player on Bob Dagley’s 1964-65 basketball team at Gibbs I did not get to meet. Steve Wilson’s untimely death at age 36 in 1985 left a void on the squad that once numbered eleven. Wilson worked at Coastal Supply Company and attended...
by Steve Williams | Oct 20, 2014 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Over his long football coaching career at the University of Tennessee, Phillip Fulmer seemed to have the knack for winning close games. I went back and checked the results, and sure enough, that was the case. In my research, I defined a close game as...
by Mark Nagi | Oct 20, 2014 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Admit it… you can’t wait to see what happens at when the Vols and Crimson Tide renew their rivalry on Saturday night at Neyland Stadium. I’m not talking about the game itself. Tennessee hasn’t beaten Alabama since 2006 and will be hard pressed to end...
by Joe Rector | Oct 20, 2014 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I’m an old television fan who’s spent plenty of time watching programs over the years. Some have become favorites, a fact that seems to doom them to cancellation. What I’ve also viewed are some ridiculous commercials. They challenge the patience and...
