by design | Mar 13, 2021 | The Daily Focus
At a time when EMS needs more dedicated professionals, more than 40 newly graduated Emergency Medical Technician’s (EMT’s) are now at work in Knox County. They are graduates of AMR’s award-winning Earn While You Learn program, where potential EMT’s are hired and...
by design | Mar 12, 2021 | The Daily Focus
The pandemic has a way of bringing out the best in people and that’s just what happened Tuesday, March 9, when the local office of Fish Window Cleaning helped popular local business K-Brew by cleaning their windows for free. Like so many small businesses, the brewery...
by design | Mar 11, 2021 | The Daily Focus
The City of Knoxville and the Knox County Public Library will present two free movie screenings in a spring edition of Drive-In at the Midway at Chilhowee Park: Friday, March 26: “Zootopia” (PG, 2016) Thursday, April 1: “Hop” (PG, 2011) Attendees must...
by design | Mar 10, 2021 | COVID-19, The Daily Focus
With Spring Break right around the corner, the Knox County Health Department (KCHD) is reminding everyone to continue practicing the Five Core Actions to keep yourselves and those around you safe and healthy. “Strong vaccination efforts coupled with a lower volume...
by design | Mar 9, 2021 | The Daily Focus
Mobility Plan 2045 is the region’s long-range transportation plan and is updated every four years to account for changes in community and regional priorities, technology, project costs, and available funding. This update will guide transportation investments in the...
by Jim Ferguson | Mar 8, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the...
by Joe Rector | Mar 8, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Give a retired man and his wife enough time at home, and the chores will start piling up. Mix in a bit of winter-time boredom for good measure, and a man might be excited to do something that otherwise would be a real pain. This past week, I spent hours...
by Tom Mattingly | Mar 8, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly What March 6, 1967, gave to the Tennessee basketball program, March 6, 1978, took away. Both days” belong” to Ray Mears. On March 6, 1967, Mears was in his fifth season at Tennessee. The Vols won the SEC basketball title, first in 24 years, at...
by John Duncan | Mar 8, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. I very seldom read the New York Times, because its editors do not limit their left-wing propaganda to the opinion pages but spread it throughout the paper. So, I have to admit that I was shocked when the Times ran a column on February 24 by...
by Harold Black | Mar 8, 2021 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com I have long bemoaned the intellectual laziness of our citizens. I could never understand why Black college students would wear Kinte cloth at their graduation exercises when Kinte cloth was worn by Black slavers in Africa...
