by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It was a new, green highway sign along a beautiful stretch of rural road. I had seen the one posted on Tazewell Pike a few weeks ago shortly after the highway was dedicated, but I had not seen the road marker along East Emory...
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly When the University of Tennessee started fall classes in September 1953, there was one very important item on the agenda for student body leaders. It was a movement to select a mascot. Both local newspapers broke the story on Sunday, Sept. 20....
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi The bad times… oh there have been a few. From Lane Kiffin’s midnight run to Derek Dooley’s Orange Pants to Butch Jones’s Champions of Life and to Jeremy Pruitt’s COVID sleeve that covered everything but his eyeballs, Tennessee’s football program has had...
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | The Daily Focus
Exciting Announcement TKA Family, We are pleased to announce that at the July 26th meeting of The King’s Academy Board of Trustees, the board unanimously approved immediate action of the establishment of the J.T. Shen Science Center at Atchley Hall Project. The J.T....
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Public Notice
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by design | Aug 21, 2022 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Four proposed amendments to Tennessee Constitution will be on the Nov. 8 ballot Tennessee voters can cast a ballot for or against four proposed amendments to the Tennessee Constitution on the Nov. 8 State and Federal General Election ballot. “Tennessee voters need to...
by design | Aug 21, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Democrats Successes…Republicans Not So Much Local Democrats have sent out an email bragging about the results of the recent election. Among the accomplishments, they boast of are “flipping 7 precincts blue that Trump won in 2020.” The Democrats...
by design | Aug 21, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Currently, the Knox County Board of Appeals hears appeals of zoning decisions made by Knoxville-Knox County Planning and, occasionally, appeals of subdivision development plans. Under a proposed ordinance change...
by design | Aug 21, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Clifford Davis had served as the congressman from the congressional district which was comprised of Shelby County. Davis had long been an institution in Shelby County and his name had first been on the ballot in 1923. Cliff Davis had long been one of the...
by design | Aug 21, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
‘All-Around’ fits TSD’s Willie Poplar perfectly Hall of Fame ceremony is Thursday night By Steve Williams Integration in the South in 1965 also included the deaf schools and Willie Poplar became the first Black to play football at Tennessee School for the Deaf...
