by design | Sep 1, 2014 | Archived Editions, Archives
Click here to view this week’s Focus. John Fugate selected interim BOE member By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com A Fountain City bank vice-president and former school principal was selected last Monday in a much divided vote to become the interim school board...
by Steve Hunley | Sep 1, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hunley
By Steve Hunley A hit dog always howls. The recent appointment of John Fugate to the Knox County Board of Education caused some howling from a few County Commissioners, most notably Sam McKenzie and Amy Broyles. Broyles was backing Rick Staples, a failed candidate in...
by design | Sep 1, 2014 | Archives
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Each week The Focus has been looking at various neighborhoods in Knoxville and Knox County or the organizations, structures, or people who have made our community what it is today. If you have an idea for a neighborhood story you...
by Ray Hill | Sep 1, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill It may well be quite difficult for many readers to imagine the importance of newspapers decades ago, as we now live in an age where the Internet reigns supreme and daily papers are much diminished, if not dying. The daily newspaper was one of, if not the...
by design | Sep 1, 2014 | Archives
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Kristin Knierim didn’t start out to be an orthodontist; she was thinking of becoming a veterinarian or a researcher. She was raised in Knoxville and attended Knoxville Catholic High School. “I thought about becoming a veterinarian...
by design | Sep 1, 2014 | Archives
By Ken Lay Bearden High School’s young girls soccer team went through some growing pains Thursday night. The Lady Bulldogs, however, did enough to salvage a 3-3 tie against Clarksville in the opening round of the Bearden Invitational. The Lady Bulldogs, who were...
by design | Aug 28, 2014 | Knoxville, The Daily Focus
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will celebrate the grand opening of its new VolShop at the University Commons development on Saturday, Aug. 30. The new store, next to Wal-Mart, is the latest satellite location of the main VolShop. Door prizes and...
by design | Aug 27, 2014 | Knoxville, sports, The Daily Focus
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, welcomes fans to campus this Sunday for the first home football game of the 2014 season. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. EDT for the Volunteers’ game against the Aggies of Utah State University. Gates open at 5 p.m. The...
by design | Aug 27, 2014 | Knox County, News, The Daily Focus
Enjoy Boomsday on Saturday, Aug. 30 – the nation’s largest Labor Day weekend fireworks show in the country – with 400,000 of your friends and neighbors. The festivities are centered along Neyland Drive at Volunteer Landing, and the following roads will...
by design | Aug 25, 2014 | Public Notice
Default having been made in the payment of the debts and obligations secured to be paid by a certain Deed of Trust executed March 4, 2008 by Adam M. Patterson and Anna G. Patterson, husband and wife to Robert M. Wilson, Jr., as Trustee, as same appears of record in...
