by design | Jan 18, 2022 | The Daily Focus
The East Knoxville Business & Professional Association is meeting on January 20 at 8 a.m. at YWCA.YWCA 124 S. Cruze Street Knoxville, TN 37915 The guest speaker for January is LaKenya Middlebrook, the Community Safety Director with the City of...
by design | Jan 17, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly The 1968-69 University of Tennessee basketball season finished 21-7 overall and 13-5 (SEC), with an appearance in the NIT. It featured yeoman-like work from Bill Justus, Billy Hann, Bobby Croft, Jimmy England, and Don Johnson. A game at Vanderbilt...
by design | Jan 17, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan Here’s a situation I personally encountered a number of years ago. I received a phone call from a neighbor to a piece of property I owned informing me that a tree from my property had fallen on to his house, causing damage. I did not really...
by design | Jan 17, 2022 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Well, I certainly expected some good things, or at least better ones, to come with the new year. However, fate, karma, the good Lord, or something made the decision to keep things going the same. It’s been a long stretch for even the strongest...
by design | Jan 17, 2022 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com My first memory of Lawson McGhee Library was in the sixties. I remember walking up the steps to the entrance with our mother. It was a beautiful old building across from Market Square. As I recall, it occupied the hill...
by design | Jan 17, 2022 | The Daily Focus
MEMORIAL MARCH PARADE Monday, January 17 8:30 a.m. (Line-Up) 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Chilhowee Park – Midway Entrance The purpose of the parade is to offer the community a visual and audible display in tribute to the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The...
by design | Jan 17, 2022 | Public Notice
Court Notices NON-RESIDENT NOTICE IN THE GENERAL SESSIONS COURT FOR KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE TVA EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, vs. JAMES PETER CRAWLEY, Defendant. No. 40398K ORDER OF PUBLICATION It appearing in...
by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Congressman Burchett Honors Dr. Harold Black By Steve Hunley, Publisher publisher@knoxfocus.com Tim Burchett, our congressman, took to the floor of the United States House of Representatives to honor Dr. Harold Black. Dr. Black has been informed the University of...
by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Safe Space? Really! Last week the Knoxville edition of USA Today published an article trying to make a cause out of the arrest of David Hayes. Hayes was arrested by deputies from the Knox County Sheriff’s office outside a meeting at the City &...
by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay It didn’t take Knoxville Catholic High School girls basketball coach Travis Mains long to figure out just how special the Irish’s rivalry with Webb School of Knoxville is. In fact, he knew as soon as the Lady Irish and Lady Spartans landed in the same...
