by design | Jul 17, 2023 | The Daily Focus
Knoxville Choral Society Announces Fall Auditions for 2023-2024 Season 2023-2024 season openings for all voice parts The Knoxville Choral Society is pleased to announce fall auditions for the 2023-2024 season on August 13, 14, 20, and 21. Auditions will be held at...
by design | Jul 16, 2023 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Park and Play Mobile visits Solway Park By Ken Lay Knox County Parks and Recreation’s Park and Play Mobile rolled into Northwest Knox County Thursday morning as it made a stop at Solway Park, located at 3205 Solway Drive. The event is the third hosted by Knox County...
by design | Jul 16, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Municipal Judge: Experience Matters Some folks are shaking their heads wondering why the Sierra Club would endorse a candidate for Knoxville’s Municipal judge. Just what threat to the environment is represented by traffic court? The incumbent...
by design | Jul 16, 2023 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
South Haven is proud and growing By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com South Haven is as unique as any Knoxville neighborhood with a wide variety of people, incomes, homes and religious backgrounds and lots of pride in their part of the city. The...
by design | Jul 16, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Oscar DePriest of Illinois By Ray Hill The name of Oscar DePriest will surely be unfamiliar to most readers, but during his time, he was a political power in Chicago and was the first Black person to be elected to the City Council in the Windy City. DePriest also...
by design | Jul 16, 2023 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
First Black president of KFOA is a ‘great leader’ By Steve Williams Among the many hats Adronicus ‘Bam’ Thomas has worn since he came to Knoxville from rural central Alabama in the 1980s, the ‘white hat’ he wears as a high school football referee means as much to him...
by design | Jul 16, 2023 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Catholic moves forward with co-head coaches By Steve Williams It is rare – perhaps even unprecedented – that a Knoxville high school football team will have interim co-head coaches this coming season. But that’s what has happened at Knoxville Catholic, where Steve...
by design | Jul 16, 2023 | The Daily Focus
Congressman Burchett votes in favor of FY2024 NDAA Last week U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024. “The United States is the greatest country in the world, and we have the...
by design | Jul 15, 2023 | The Daily Focus
The Knoxville Bar Association released the results of its Candidate Survey for the City of Knoxville Municipal Judge on the ballot for the August 29 Primary Election. The Survey asked each KBA member to carefully assess whether the candidates have demonstrated the...
by design | Jul 14, 2023 | The Daily Focus
Knox County School Board members Katherine Bike and Jennifer Owen will attend a Community Story-Sharing on Market Square on Saturday, July 15, 2023, from 4 to 6 p.m., focused on the experiences that Tennessee public school students and families have had with the...
