by design | Sep 21, 2021 | The Daily Focus
KCHD encourages seniors to complete their Falls Free Check-Up It’s Fall Prevention Awareness Week! To help kick off this week, the Knox County Health Department’s Stay Active and Independent for Life (SAIL) program encourages older adults to complete a Falls Free...
by design | Sep 20, 2021 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com His is a familiar name, especially in East Tennessee. It is becoming well known across the nation, as well. Shortly after the debut of his latest single earlier this year, Cooter Daniel’s “Ol’ Time Gospel Feelin’” rose to No. 4 in...
by design | Sep 20, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector My brothers and I rode on the dirt road cut for the new subdivision. Daddy had given the developer twenty-five feet so that he could build the road. We always came home in the evening dusty and dirty from the dirt storms we kicked up with sliding...
by design | Sep 20, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Rarely have three consecutive December Saturdays been as significant as Dec. 4, Dec. 11, and Dec. 18 were in 1965. The time was Doug Dickey’s second season as head coach. At age 33, Dickey had compiled an 8-1-2 1965 record following a fallow period...
by design | Sep 20, 2021 | The Daily Focus
~ from the City of Knoxville’s Office of Neighborhood Empowerment The Office of Neighborhood Empowerment (ONE) is collaborating with Knox County Planning Alliance (KCPA) to host a virtual workshop series on citizen advocacy and engagement in the local land-use and...
by design | Sep 20, 2021 | Public Notice
COURT NOTICES NON-RESIDENT NOTICE TO: MA. CLENIELLE PAZ SINGCO CAYACAP IN RE: JACK MICHAEL NELSON v. MA. CLENIELLE PAZ SINGCO CAYACAP 203077-3 IN THE CHANCERY COURT FOR KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE In this Cause, appearing from the Complaint filed,...
by design | Sep 19, 2021 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Tim Burchett calls for Blinken to resign Says Biden Administration Has Blood On Its Hands By Steve Hunley, Publisher publisher@knoxfocus.com Congressman Tim Burchett has called for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to resign. Burchett was one of several GOP...
by design | Sep 19, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Comings & goings Joe Biden made his pitch to increase corporate taxes in our country beyond that of every civilized country on the face of God’s green earth except for Colombia and Portugal. Biden proposes to go beyond even what Communist China...
by design | Sep 19, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mark Nagi The Fulton Falcons didn’t look much like the Fulton Falcons the past couple of seasons. But the youngsters that experienced all those losses have grown up in a big way. On Thursday, September 16, the Falcons scored five touchdowns in the first half, on...
by design | Sep 19, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill For twenty years, Tennessee’s Second Congressional District had been served in the United States House of Representatives by J. Will Taylor. “Hillbilly Bill” Taylor was also the last congressman elected from this district who either did not live or later...