by design | Jun 13, 2020 | COVID-19, The Daily Focus
The City of Knoxville’s new COVID-19 Housing Assistance Program will assist renters and homeowners struggling to pay for housing due to income lost because of the pandemic. The goal of the program is to help an estimated 570 renter households and 140 homeowner...
by design | Jun 12, 2020 | The Daily Focus
~ from Knoxville Regional TPO This region’s long-range transportation plan is updated every four years. The update allows us to receive federal money for transportation projects in our region and ensures that we’re making the best long-term decisions for our...
by design | Jun 11, 2020 | The Daily Focus
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett is warning businesses about a mailer from a company called “TN Certificate Service.” “We have seen mailers like this before using deceptive forms and language,” Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett said. “We continuously...
by design | Jun 11, 2020 | The Daily Focus
~ from the NKBPA June newsletter Make a little breakfast and join us online for our JUNE 12th Meeting via ZOOM. Our speaker this month will be Harris D. “Bud” Ford. After a 45 1/2 year career in athletic media relations, University of Tennessee graduate...
by design | Jun 10, 2020 | The Daily Focus
Gay Street Bridge to be closed Tuesday, June 16 State of Tennessee bridge inspectors will be conducting routine planned inspections of four Knoxville bridges on Monday and Tuesday, June 15-16. Motorists should anticipate traffic reroutings while the inspections are...
by design | Jun 10, 2020 | The Daily Focus
~ from the Office of Neighborhoods The Office of Neighborhoods is hosting three mandatory workshops for the Neighborhood Small Grants Program (NSGP). All applicants must be resident-led, resident-controlled, and democratically run neighborhood organizations and attend...
by design | Jun 9, 2020 | The Daily Focus
Knox County Schools has formed a Community Task Force to help provide feedback on data the district is collecting regarding the upcoming school year. The task force is made up of nine community members who were recommended by each school board representative,...
by design | Jun 8, 2020 | The Daily Focus
Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. O’Connor Senior Center (611 Winona St.) Senior Corps volunteers will be honored with a drive-through recognition event in the parking lot of O’Connor Senior Center. As they drive through, Office on Aging staff will put goodie...
by design | Jun 8, 2020 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Have you noticed that the COVID-19 pandemic has virtually disappeared from America? Even the Weather Channel app has removed CCOVID-19 tallies. The new crisis is the protest over the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis policeman. As...
by Mike Steely | Jun 8, 2020 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely Want to visit a town that was founded along a pre-historic trail? If you begin in Knoxville and take Interstate 40 west you’ll come to Kingston. The next town is Harriman. If you take that exit you can turn left off the exit and head southwest to...
