by design | Dec 18, 2020 | COVID-19, The Daily Focus
Pandemic Delivers a Hit to Tennessee’s Agricultural Sectors In this year’s economic report to the governor, researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture detail the extent of COVID-19 impacts on Tennessee’s agricultural sectors; examine...
by design | Dec 17, 2020 | COVID-19, The Daily Focus
Christmas is the peak season for home fires, according to the National Fire Protection Association. While decorating is one of the easiest ways to get in the holiday spirit, Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs has teamed up with the Knox County Fire Prevention Bureau to...
by design | Dec 17, 2020 | The Daily Focus
By Bob Fowler Roane State staff writer A new pact giving qualifying Roane State students access to free medical care may be the first of its type in the nation, officials said. The community college has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Free Medical...
by design | Dec 16, 2020 | The Daily Focus
Though the pandemic has changed the way most are celebrating special events this year, the Knoxville High Senior Living community is determined to bring some Christmas cheer to the local community. The community is hosting a Christmas in the City event, which...
by design | Dec 15, 2020 | The Daily Focus
Streaming Virtually On YouTube this year Circle Modern Dance continues its annual holiday tradition of Modern Dance Primitive Light, a Winter Solstice celebration of the arts December 17-20, this year being streamed virtually on Circle Modern Dance’s YouTube channel....
by design | Dec 14, 2020 | The Daily Focus
Now, all City recycling drop-off centers will alter hours of operation from 24 hours a day to an 8 a.m.-8 p.m. schedule. Goodwill attendants will work four additional hours per day, so the centers are always staffed when open. Attendants accept donations,...
by design | Dec 14, 2020 | Columnist, Ferguson
“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men. And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.”’ Jesus Christ (Luke 18:2-3) By Dr. Jim Ferguson It has been a month since the November...
by Mark Nagi | Dec 14, 2020 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi I’m writing this article at 2:24 a.m. on Wednesday, December 9, a few hours after the final NFL game of the week. Baltimore beat an awful Dallas team tonight 34-17, but that’s not the big news. I’m here to type a rambling, hopefully, coherent piece on why...
by Tom Mattingly | Dec 14, 2020 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly In the late 1960s and into the 1970s, there was one collegiate game on the tube each weekend, several emanating from Knoxville. ABC had the broadcast rights, and whatever game they chose, that’s what the nation saw, with a few exceptions for so-called...
by Joe Rector | Dec 14, 2020 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I’ve always been amazed at this country we call home. Over the years, this land and its people have bowed their backs in the face of adversity and prevailed. It found roots in a revolution to separate from a monarchy that treated people as second-class...
