by design | Feb 25, 2021 | The Daily Focus
On Monday, March 1st, 2021 the Tennessee Winter Beer Fest (TWBF) will move its annual silent auction online. While the group had initially hoped to hold their 10th-anniversary fest this year, the effects of the pandemic forced the group to cancel the event. “We knew...
by design | Feb 24, 2021 | The Daily Focus
On Feb. 26, the Girl Scouts of the Southern Appalachians will begin distributing its always-anticipated cookies by holding drive-through locations, safely hosting cookie booths and accepting orders through Grubhub for contact-free pickup or delivery. “We’re proud to...
by design | Feb 23, 2021 | The Daily Focus
The community-wide North Knoxville Cleanup will be held on Saturday, March 6, from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. The event’s home-base will be at Edgewood Park, 3109 Ocoee Trail. All volunteer slots for this event are full. The Office of Neighborhood Empowerment...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan Oftentimes in a divorce case I will have a conversation with the client and they will say something like, “the second they get the paperwork they are going to go empty out our bank accounts.” I tell them, “Well, they may, but once they are served,...
by John Duncan | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. As almost all Focus readers know, I grew up in a political family. I have been involved in politics since I was a small boy. After all these years, about the only certain thing I can tell you is that the pendulum swings. Sometimes it swings for...
by Harold Black | Feb 22, 2021 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com President Biden is preaching unity out of one side of his mouth while out of the other side he and his party are driving wedges between the democrats and the Americans who did not vote for him. If Biden were Pinocchio, his...
by Jim Ferguson | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson
For in him we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:28 Our days might come to 70 years, or 80 if our strength endures… Psalm 90:10 By Dr. Jim Ferguson I didn’t know the term influencer until the last year or so. Perhaps this is because I am largely absent from...
by Joe Rector | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector COVID-19 has just about worn all of us out. We aren’t used to being confined for such long periods of time. Many people haven’t been out except to the grocery store for a year. Yes, some have developed rather snippy, hateful dispositions, but although...
by Ralphine Major | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It is always heartening to see. An entire week in women’s basketball is designated for teams to wear tee shirts with their team colors. Every shirt bears the same message: “We Back Pat.” The carefully chosen words reference the...
by Tom Mattingly | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly There was always a special feeling to working in the William B. Stokely Athletics Center with Haywood Harris and Bud Ford. Many, if not most, of us who worked there had walked the rolling hills of campus, had sat in the classrooms, and had a personal...
