by design | Jul 30, 2023 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Muse Knoxville celebrates newly renovated exhibits By Ken Lay Muse Knoxville unveiled a pair of new exhibits Thursday morning, bringing excitement to a humid day. It opened a new and improved version of its Healthy Kids Clinic Exhibit inside the building. Muse...
by design | Jul 30, 2023 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Turner’s camp mixes in life skills and tough love By Steve Williams The play on the court had gotten a little rough and physical even among the first through fifth graders in the annual Elston Turner Basketball Camp last week at Austin-East High School’s Clifford H....
by design | Jul 30, 2023 | The Daily Focus
August 14th, 7 PM, Fellowship Hall, Eastminster Presbyterian Church Meet all of the At-Large Candidates for City Council How will an At-Large Candidate help East Knoxville? Audience questions/candidate answers.
by design | Jul 29, 2023 | The Daily Focus
5 Tips from UT Extension to Save Big on Back-to-School Shopping Solutions for Families to Get Back to School Without Draining the Budget KNOXVILLE, Tenn. –Back-to-school shopping is already in full swing, and the National Retail Federation projects that consumers will...
by design | Jul 28, 2023 | The Daily Focus
KEMA Hosts Community Emergency Response Teams Training ~ from the City of Knoxville’s Office of Neighborhood Empowerment Knoxville Emergency Management Agency (KEMA) is hosting a Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) training this fall! The CERT training will take...
by design | Jul 27, 2023 | The Daily Focus
Fifth Annual School Mania TOMORROW 3-6 p.m. on Friday, July 28 Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs’ School Mania will take place tomorrow, Friday, July 28, from 3 to 6 p.m. in the parking lot of the Jacob Building in Chilhowee Park. This year, while kids’ attendance is...
by design | Jul 27, 2023 | The Daily Focus
Mosquitoes in Inskip area of Knoxville test positive for West Nile virus The latest lab report has confirmed the presence of West Nile virus (WNV) in Culex mosquitoes in the Inskip area of Knoxville. Following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
by design | Jul 26, 2023 | The Daily Focus
Sip & Save at The Southern Market The Southern Market will be hosting their annual Sip & Save on July 29 to benefit Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer. This event will be held at their brick-and-mortar store in The District in Bearden. The...
by design | Jul 25, 2023 | The Daily Focus
MEDIC will be offering a $20 e-gift card to donors from July 24th through 31st. Donors will also receive a MEDIC T-shirt and Texas Roadhouse coupon. Donors must have a valid email address to receive the e-gift card link. Reserving a time slot is encouraged and can be...
by design | Jul 24, 2023 | Black, Columnist
How to Stop Bank Runs By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Marriner Eccles, who was chairman of the Fed from 1934 to 1948, was reputed to say that the main problem with banking was that there were 13,000 banks in the U.S. and not that...
