by design | Nov 7, 2013 | Knox County, News, The Daily Focus
Volunteers are needed at two upcoming Saturday workdays for the Pond Gap Elementary School community garden, a project of Pellissippi State Community College. Pellissippi State’s Service-Learning program has partnered with Pond Gap and the University of Tennessee to...
by design | Nov 6, 2013 | Knoxville, The Daily Focus
Homecoming stands out as the greatest orange-and-white celebration on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, calendar for both students and alumni. This year’s festivities culminate on Saturday, Nov. 9, when faculty, staff and students from different colleges,...
by design | Nov 5, 2013 | News, The Daily Focus
The 2013 Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC) Outdoor Hospitality Conference and Expo is pulling into the Knoxville Convention Center for its first trip to Knoxville, Nov. 5-8. More than 500 campground owners, RV enthusiasts and suppliers will participate in...
by design | Nov 4, 2013 | News, The Daily Focus
The Tennessee Theatre announced today that Becky Hancock, recently hired as manager of communications and outreach, will serve as interim executive director following the resignation of Tom Cervone, who is leaving to take a position with the University of Tennessee....
by design | Nov 4, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson They say that people look like their dogs. That’s obviously an over statement, but I have to admit I’ve occasionally noticed some resemblance in folks who walk their dogs in the neighborhood. For a long time I’ve observed that a doctor’s medical...
by Ralphine Major | Nov 4, 2013 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major Growing up, they were neighbors. They played on the Gibbs High School basketball team and walked home together after practice every day. For David Widner and Tommy Everette, home was in the Ritta Community. Widner has appeared in earlier Focus...
by Mark Nagi | Nov 4, 2013 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Bruce Pearl is waiting… just as he has been since March of 2011, when he was relieved of his duties as Tennessee men’s basketball coach. In August of that same year, the NCAA slapped a three-year show-cause penalty on Pearl, stemming from recruiting...
by design | Nov 4, 2013 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore How many of you remember “Calvin and Hobbes”? I imagine quite a few of you do, especially those who had children who enjoyed their antics when they were young. A comic strip about a boy and his imaginary friend, it was created by Bill Watterson. He was...
by Mike Steely | Nov 4, 2013 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely How does history treat you when you are second at something? Poor Archibald Roane, Tennessee’s second governor, might be able to tell you. Who can follow up John Sevier? Roane could, but he only with one term. Sevier had been elected and reelected and...
by Joe Rector | Nov 4, 2013 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector It’s those sounds from childhood that stay with us for a lifetime. Even when every curtain in the house was pulled and the only light on in the house was the one in the bathroom, we boys knew when Daddy came home. It was that sound of white gravels in...
