by design | Sep 8, 2021 | The Daily Focus
A reminder to be mindful while participating in open burning. As autumn approaches, Knox County Health Department (KCHD) Air Quality division wants to remind the community to be mindful while participating in open burning and ensure they apply for an open burning...
by design | Sep 7, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Caden Rector, like many young people, left for college the other day. He’s attending Western Carolina, where he signed to play baseball. Although he’s Jim’s grandson, the boy was on my mind, so I sent him a text message, wished him well, and told him to...
by design | Sep 7, 2021 | Public Notice
FORECLOSURE NOTICE NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY WHEREAS, Nellie Pruitt executed a Deed of Trust to Joe Coker, as Trustee, on June 12, 2006, and payable to Whitaker Bank of Corbin, Kentucky, to secure a promissory note in the...
by design | Sep 7, 2021 | The Daily Focus
Come join us at Marble Springs State Historic Site to celebrate Sevier Days 2021, commemorating the birthday of John Sevier, on Saturday, September 25th, 2021, from 11 a.m. -4 p.m. Explore Sevier’s home open-house style and enjoy living history demonstrations,...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Commission reorganizes, eyes redistricting By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com A special session of the Knox County Commission Wednesday saw Richie Beeler being chosen chairman and Justin Biggs selected as vice chairman. Beeler, the District 8...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley School Board Follies Last week, the Knox County Board of Education had some 60 people sign up to speak. What do you suppose had folks all stirred up? Test scores? Curriculum? None of the above. It was, yet again, masks. It seems like nothing has...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Lee Beeler scored the first touchdown on Central High’s new football field in 1971. “It’s a record that never will be broken … my claim to fame,” said Lee recently in a light-hearted manner as he reflected on that historic opening game and team of 50...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Most figures in history are ephemeral and float through the pages of books only fleetingly. Some never even make the footnotes of history, yet probably should. There are any number of historical figures which were larger than life, the subject of...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. After I took the Bar Exam in July of 1973, I spent almost all my time at the Knox County Courthouse watching jury trials. I had watched several trials in my Uncle Joe’s court in earlier years while I was in undergraduate school at UT and...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Jim Ferguson There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries. — Brutus from William Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar” In 42 BC,...
