by design | Oct 12, 2014 | Archives
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com What’s missing from this picture? What was there before that parking lot? Wasn’t there a building there before? So many of our landmarks have disappeared over the years. There’s a Joni Mitchell song that says “pave paradise, put up...
by design | Oct 12, 2014 | Absher, Archives
By Sally Absher sallyabsher@gmail.com On October 2, Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett, Commissioner Jeff Ownby and affected families joined together to recognize National Dyslexia Month in Knox County. Mayor Burchett presented the families with a mayoral proclamation and...
by design | Oct 12, 2014 | Dan Andrews, The Daily Focus
Exclusive, celebrity environmentalist and “CNN 2013 Top 10 Hero of the Year Chad Pregracke,” will be touring Knoxville in 2015. Source http://livinglandsandwaters.org/get-involved/tennessee-river-tour/ . For exact information on what the mission...
by design | Oct 12, 2014 | News, The Daily Focus
In continuing the ongoing research into Second Creek, a closer look has been taken at the board that is suppose to to be working on greenway issues. According to the city’s greenway commission website http://www.cityofknoxville.org/boards/greenways.asp two...
by design | Oct 10, 2014 | Dan Andrews, News, The Daily Focus
What began as a conversation about how journalists live off press releases and have short attention spans, has become an epic project in how good journalism and good government interaction can make a difference. For the past week this reporter has embarked on a...
by design | Oct 8, 2014 | Knoxville, News, The Daily Focus
Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett’s ‘Knox Cash Mob’ is gearing up for another visit to a longtime local business in our community. On Saturday, Oct. 11, from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m., Mayor Burchett invites members of the community to stop by the Fountain City Exxon station,...
by design | Oct 7, 2014 | Knox County, Knoxville, News, The Daily Focus
U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. will host the Duncan Family Barbecue on Tuesday, Oct. 7, from 5:30-8:30 pm at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum. Entertainment will be provided by country music legend and Grand Ole Opry member Joe Diffie, American Idol finalist Janelle...
by design | Oct 7, 2014 | Knox County, The Daily Focus
Join Rose Klix for a workshop on the practical considerations of poetry competitions Join award winning poet, Rose Klix, for a workshop on poetry competitions at the Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road, on Saturday, October 11 at 2 p.m. In this one-hour program,...
by design | Oct 6, 2014 | Public Notice
75 FORECLOSURES substitute trusteeÕs notice of foreclosure sale Default having been made in the terms, conditions, and payments provided in a certain Deed of Trust dated APRIL 15, 2011, executed by JULIE A. HELTON, A SINGLE PERSON, to ARNOLD M. WEISS, ESQ., Trustee,...
by Joe Rector | Oct 6, 2014 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I know that most of us have few friends but many acquaintances. However, for the sake of argument and the development of this piece, I’m going to talk about “friends” in a larger context. It’s been my good fortune over the years to have come into contact...
