by Mark Nagi | Jul 21, 2014 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman The best thing about the annual SEC Media Days in Hoover, Alabama is that no team, nor their fans, has had their hearts ripped out yet. Games are still 6 weeks away. On Tuesday, July 15 the Tennessee Volunteers took to the podiums in front of over 1200...
by Steve Williams | Jul 21, 2014 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams It seems like Butch Jones’ brick-by-brick rebuilding project is moving at an inch-by-inch pace by the look of the 2014 season forecast and preseason all-conference selections at SEC Media Days last week. Tennessee was picked by the media to finish...
by design | Jul 20, 2014 | Archived Editions, Archives
Click here to view this week’s Focus. TN Deputy Commissioner of Education to speak By Sally Absher sallyabsher@gmail.com 8th District Board of Education member Mike McMillan reports that Representative Harry Brooks has invited Tennessee Deputy Commissioner of...
by design | Jul 20, 2014 | Archives
By Steve Hunley There is a very important election in progress for the Knox County Board of Education seat for the First District. Incumbent board member Gloria Deathridge faces formidable challenger Marshall Walker. Many thought Deathridge would coast to reelection...
by design | Jul 20, 2014 | Archives
By Ray Hill There was a time when virtually every Tennessean knew the name of Sergeant Alvin Cullum York. A highly decorated veteran of World War I, a genuine hero and the subject of a wildly popular and celebrated movie of his life, Alvin C. York was perhaps the most...
by design | Jul 20, 2014 | Archives
By Ken Lay The Austin-East Baby Roadrunners kicked their 2014 season off with a football camp last week. The camp was a three-day event and was put on with the help of the Knox County Sheriff’s Department. The camp is an annual event and the sheriff’s department has...
by design | Jul 20, 2014 | Archives
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Parkridge is a historic neighborhood roughly bounded by Hall of Fame Drive, I-40, Cherry Street and Magnolia Avenue. It’s a large, multiracial area of older homes and includes the largest number of George Barber designed homes...
by design | Jul 19, 2014 | Archives
By Steve Williams Fundamentals and fun were meshed together in the Powell Youth Football program’s preseason camp for players, ages 7, 8 and 9, on Saturday, July 12. Forty-six youngsters participated in the camp at Levi Park. Volunteer instructors included coaches...
by design | Jul 14, 2014 | News, The Daily Focus
8th District Board of Education member Mike McMillan reports that Representative Harry Brooks has invited Tennessee Deputy Commissioner of Education Kathleen Airhart to speak on the subject of K-12 state requirements for testing and assessments. The event will...
by design | Jul 14, 2014 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson My wife, Becky, relates a story of a long departed relative who grew up in the Great Depression. This lady understood privation, and as a result saved everything for the proverbial “rainy day.” As the family sorted through her life’s history and...
