by design | Aug 21, 2021 | The Daily Focus
The Tennessee Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, the Knoxville Bar Association, and the Federal Bar Associations in the Eastern District of Tennessee, in partnership with Legal Aid of East Tennessee (LAET), the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services, and the...
by design | Aug 20, 2021 | The Daily Focus
By Coy DeWeese Interior anchors and multi-year All-SAC talents Brian Bembry and Montel Presley wrapped up their careers in 2019, however, Carson-Newman returns starting experience on the ends, which will be melded with Division I transfers. Wycleff Phanor...
by design | Aug 20, 2021 | The Daily Focus
On Saturday, August 21, 2021, at 2 p.m. a ceremony will be held at historic Old Gray Cemetery, located at 543 N Broadway, to dedicate an interpretive marker honoring Knoxville suffragist Lizzie Crozier French. Sponsoring the ceremony are the four organizations and...
by design | Aug 19, 2021 | COVID-19, The Daily Focus
Tennessee nurses are overwhelmed, hospitals are nearing capacity Nurses across Tennessee are highly concerned about the recent rise in COVID-19 cases in the state as campuses are opening for the fall semester and children in K-12 grades are returning to school....
by design | Aug 19, 2021 | The Daily Focus
Tennessee Offering Senior Retake this Fall to Help Students Achieve Yesterday, the Tennessee Department of Education highlighted an opportunity this fall for all high school seniors to boost their scores on the ACT college entrance exam after taking the test the...
by design | Aug 18, 2021 | The Daily Focus
Carson-Newman’s First Couple, President Charles and Sandra Fowler, lead incoming freshmen and their families in the university’s annual Prayer Walk on campus. During the event faculty, staff and orientation leaders line Russell Avenue in prayer as families walk from...
by design | Aug 18, 2021 | The Daily Focus
A reminder to regularly update family evacuation plans and emergency supply kits. Disaster can strike anytime. That’s why the Knox County Health Department (KCHD) Emergency Preparedness (EP) Division regularly encourages individuals, families, schools and businesses...
by design | Aug 17, 2021 | The Daily Focus
By Ken Lay The Hardin Valley community will come together to help one of its own Saturday. Hardin Valley Academy will host a cornhole tournament to help HVA graduate and former Hawks football player Trey Byrd. Byrd, a 2011 graduate of the school, was injured in a...
by design | Aug 16, 2021 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely When my wife and I heard the bridge at Bald River Falls would be replaced later this year we decided to take the drive to Tellico Plains and visit the roadside cascade. We’ve been there a couple of other times and know the area pretty well. We set out...
by design | Aug 16, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Over the weekend, my nephew and his wife came to the house to spend some time and catch up. Steve is 65, and yes, it’s more than a bit unusual to have a nephew just a few years younger than I am. I looked through the old pictures that my parents had to...
