by design | Dec 30, 2025 | The Daily Focus
Over $42 Million Available to Communities to Support Multimodal Transportation Options ~ from TDOT Nashville, Tenn. – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, along with Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) Commissioner Will Reid, P.E., announced the award of over...
by design | Dec 29, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:10 I have been a stargazer all my adult life. Years ago, instead of a Red Ryder BB gun like Ralphie’s in the movie “A Christmas Story,” I asked Santa...
by design | Dec 29, 2025 | Columnist, Pratt
By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor If you are like me, you are not particularly fond of the days between Christmas and New Year’s. The decorations remain, the songs still echo faintly, but the urgency, excitement, and expectation seem to have...
by design | Dec 29, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Every morning, I rise from bed when my eyes open. If I’ve used an alarm clock, the snooze button is never touched. I walk through the house and hit the button to start the coffee pot brewing and continue to my bathroom at the far end of the house. I...
by design | Dec 29, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly The last weeks of December 1969 constituted significant moments in the history of Tennessee football. If you’re so inclined, cast a glance toward North Florida and remember how things transpired. The final game of the Doug Dickey coaching era in...
by design | Dec 29, 2025 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams I just came in from outside on Christmas day 2025. It felt more like a day in Sept-ember weather-wise in Inskip-Norwood. The sky above was blue with fluffy white clouds. My outside temperature gauge pointed at the upper 60s at 12:30 p.m. The only...
by design | Dec 29, 2025 | The Daily Focus
E PLURIBUS UNUM call to artists Entries due Sunday, January 25 Hikers by Marcia Shelly The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville is excited to announce a new juried exhibition entitled E Pluribus Unum (“Out of many, one”) which invites artists to reflect on...
by design | Dec 29, 2025 | Public Notice
FORECLOSURE NOTICES NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE WHEREAS, default has occurred in the performance of the covenants, terms, and conditions of a Deed of Trust Note dated 09/29/2022, and the Deed of Trust of even date securing the same, recorded 10/06/2022, in...
by design | Dec 28, 2025 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
KCSO mourns passing of Chief Lyon By Focus Staff On Monday, December 22, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office shared the news of the passing of Chief Deputy Bernie Lyon, who had been admitted to the hospital on December 10. Sheriff Tom Spangler released the following...
by design | Dec 28, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Fake News, Indeed The extent of the fraud in Minnesota continues to spread like a wildfire in a drought. Estimates are that Minnesota and U.S. taxpayers have been bilked out of as much as $9 billion. It shows just how rampant fraud is in one of 50...
