by design | Mar 5, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Last week, I received three emails all pointing to the problem created by the homeless inside the City of Knoxville. All of the writers were, to the best of my knowledge, residents of Knoxville and one asked the question, “When is enough, enough?”...
by design | Mar 5, 2023 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Webb’s Walls: a scorer, defender and leader By Steve Williams Versatile may be the best word to describe Lukas Walls as a basketball player. The 6-4 Webb School shooting guard is The Knoxville Focus / Coaches’ Knox County boys’ Player of the Year. Walls received the...
by design | Mar 5, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill It is truly rare for a politician to be a fixture of the politics of his or her community, state or nation. It does happen, but those political figures whose influence and or service span generations are rare. Ken Hechler was one of those scarce...
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Seymour’s third quarter shutout leads to region title By Steve Williams The Halls vs. Seymour Region 2-3A girls title game was rocking along nip and tuck like most fans expected last week. Then the third quarter happened. Halls was shut out and the host Lady Eagles...
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Karns hangs on in wild OT win over Oak Ridge in Region 2-4A semi, 78-72 By Bill Howard It was a game that seemed to have as many lead and momentum changes as points scored. In the end, Karns High School’s boys’ basketball team held on for a wild, 78-72 overtime...
by design | Mar 5, 2023 | The Daily Focus
Gov. Lee Recognizes ‘Read Across America’ Week, Literacy Month in Tennessee Proposes additional strategic K-3 literacy investments in upcoming budget Tennessee Governor Bill Lee recognized March 2-6 as Read Across America Week and proclaimed it Literacy Month in...
by design | Mar 4, 2023 | The Daily Focus
~ from the Office of Neighborhoods An Urban Forest Master Plan (UFMP) is a community-driven strategic plan to invest long-term in Knoxville’s trees. Trees Knoxville is spearheading the project with support from the City of Knoxville, the Tennessee Division of...
by design | Mar 3, 2023 | The Daily Focus
Keep Knoxville Beautiful North Clean-Up is Saturday Keep Knoxville Beautiful will host the fifth annual North Knoxville Community Clean-Up on Saturday, March 4, 9 a.m.- noon. The event will kick off at Northgate Plaza, 4212 N. Broadway. The North Knoxville Community...
by design | Mar 2, 2023 | The Daily Focus
KCS Honors Teachers Of The Year Nearly 200 educators were honored at the annual KCS Teacher of the Year banquet at the Knoxville Convention Center on Tuesday evening. Each district school had teachers represented at the banquet, and district-wide winners were also...
by design | Mar 1, 2023 | The Daily Focus
Tennessee State Library & Archives is excited to announce a new lunchtime speaker series as part of The Legacy of Tennessee State Parks exhibit, exploring the history behind one of the best park systems in the country. “Our state parks have a rich history of...
