by design | Jan 21, 2014 | Knox County, The Daily Focus
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by design | Jan 21, 2014 | Knoxville, The Daily Focus
Reminder: Due to Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Waste Connections Inc., the City of Knoxville’s contractor for trash and recyclables pickup, will be following a holiday schedule this week. For most customers, pickup will be a day later than it would be...
by design | Jan 21, 2014 | Knoxville, The Daily Focus
Lucas Richman, music director of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, will present “Ernest Bloch: A Musical Neshuma (A Musical Soul)” at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23, in the McClung Museum auditorium, 1327 Circle Park Drive, on the campus of the University of...
by Ralphine Major | Jan 20, 2014 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major The coach gave his player a piece of advice: “There is life after basketball.” Tommy Everette, the tall center who played on the successful 1964-65 Gibbs basketball team, remembered the comment made by his high school coach, Bob Dagley. Everette...
by Mark Nagi | Jan 20, 2014 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Not going to lie to you, the good readers of The Knoxville Focus… I’m concerned about what is going to happen at Neyland Stadium on October 25th, 2014. As you certainly have heard by now, former Vols coach Lane Kiffin has been hired by Nick Saban to be...
by Steve Williams | Jan 20, 2014 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Increasing speculation that Bruce Pearl could again be the men’s basketball coach at the University of Tennessee is a hot topic at the water cooler these days. I first wrote about it 10 months ago after Cuonzo Martin’s Vols lost to Alabama in the...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Jan 20, 2014 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Sharon Frankenberg, Attorney at Law A trust is a right of property held by one party for the benefit of another. This can include real property as well as personal property. The trustee holds the title to the property for the benefit of another person, the...
by design | Jan 20, 2014 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I don’t believe people go to a concert as an intellectual exercise. We go to experience the joy of live music. There’s something about a live performance that may be akin to home cooking. Both are extemporaneous and a bit unpredictable. My...
by design | Jan 20, 2014 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore This is written on the flyleaf of John Grisham’s newest book, “Sycamore Row”: “Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new handwritten will. It’s an act that...
by Joe Rector | Jan 20, 2014 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Maybe it’s that I am more often grumpy these day, or perhaps it’s that I am more observant of the things that occur. Just maybe it’s because the filter that set a five-second delay between my thinking and saying things is gone. Whatever it is, I’ve...
