by design | May 21, 2014 | Knox County, The Daily Focus
June 1, 2014 marks the 218th anniversary of Tennessee’s admission as the 16th state in the year 1796. In conjunction with the Historic Homes of Knoxville, Marble Springs State Historic Site will commemorate this occasion with a weekend of Living History. On...
by design | May 20, 2014 | Knoxville, The Daily Focus
NORRIS — On Tuesday and Wednesday, May 20-21, veterans from the Knoxville chapter of Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing (PHWFF) are hosting veterans from the Wounded Warrior Project in what for many of the warriors will be their first fly fishing outing. ...
by design | May 20, 2014 | Knoxville, The Daily Focus
The LeConte Photographic Society will sponsor a program by professional photographer Larry Perry of Knoxville on Thursday, May 22nd at 6:30pm at the King Library in Sevierville in the Burchfield Room. Enter from the side door. The title of the program...
by design | May 19, 2014 | Public Notice
The Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Executive Board will meet on Wednesday, May 28, at 9 a.m. in the Small Assembly Room of the City/County Building, 400 Main Street, Knoxville, TN. Topics to be considered: Resolution to Amend the...
by design | May 19, 2014 | Public Notice
Sterling South dba Oakmont Education admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color,...
by design | May 19, 2014 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I admire the prose of Rick Bragg, the southern writer and author of several books and a monthly column in Southern Living. Perhaps if I had followed a different timeline I might have had a writing vocation rather than a mid-life avocation. But who...
by Ralphine Major | May 19, 2014 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major She does not live in our community anymore, but I see her more often than some who do. Labor Day Weekend, I saw her at the neighborhood IGA grocery store. I know she recycles, because I saw her last summer at the solid waste center. Just last...
by Mike Steely | May 19, 2014 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely Let’s take a mini-vacation locally this year. Take a long weekend or a week’s vacation, get the kids excited, and let’s go camping. There are so many commercial and public campgrounds in our area from which to choose, not even counting the Smokey...
by design | May 19, 2014 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore Did you know: Elephants sleep only two hours a day? Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons. A duck can’t walk without bobbing its head. ‘Twinkle, twinkle, little star” was composed by Mozart when he was five years old. Mosquitoes are attracted...
by Mark Nagi | May 19, 2014 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman “Daddy, what was it like when they just played games and we didn’t pay attention to things off the field/court?” “No one knows Timmy… no one knows…” This is where we are now as a sports culture. Blame the internet and the leagues and the greed and the...
