Holiday Safety Tips from Knox County

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...

City Recycle Centers Change Hours of Operation

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,...

A Month of Infamy

“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...

Fantasy Football Hates Me

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...

‘Roll the scores’

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...

Our Time to Defend America Is Now

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...