by Ray Hill | Dec 8, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill The United States was finally catching a glimpse of the end of the bloodiest conflict in human history, World War II, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt vacationed at his cottage in Warm Springs, Georgia. Roosevelt was sitting for a portrait by artist...
by design | Dec 8, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams From elementary school through high school, Lee Henson went to Karns. Except for his time in college at Carson-Newman, he’s always been at Karns as a student, player and coach. Fittingly, in his 26th season as a basketball coach at Karns High, he was...
by design | Dec 8, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com What developer Rick Dover has done with old Knoxville High School is amazing. If you ever visited the old building before Dover bought and converted it to apartments you’d be absolutely pleased. Dover, who is known...
by design | Dec 8, 2019 | The Daily Focus
What: Broadway Corridor Study Public Meeting When: 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019 Where: St. James Episcopal Church, 1101 N. Broadway Who: Knoxville Engineering Department staff, Toole Design Group...
by design | Dec 7, 2019 | The Daily Focus
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com The long abandoned Standard Knitting Mill in East Knoxville has been officially sold to a South Carolina based investment and developing company. Details of the sale and possible future use will be given Thursday at...
by design | Dec 6, 2019 | The Daily Focus
Concord United Methodist Church presents its annual Christmas Cantata on Sunday, December 8 at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the church sanctuary. In coordination with the joyful season, this year’s musical is Joseph M. Martin’s Appalachian Winter. Some 40 members of the...
by design | Dec 5, 2019 | The Daily Focus
University of Tennessee costumed mascot Smokey will serve as Grand Marshal of the 47th annual WIVK Christmas Parade on Friday, Dec. 6, in downtown Knoxville. The parade will feature marching bands, twirlers, dancers, singers, floats, local fire departments,...
by design | Dec 4, 2019 | The Daily Focus
The taxpayers can now see the 21 legal contracts that must be signed by Knox County government and the Knox County School Board that are required to move the Central Office of the school system to the east TVA Tower. The School Board has had two days to read the 208...
by design | Dec 4, 2019 | The Daily Focus
What: Neighborhood Safety Workshop – West When: 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019 Where: Arnstein Jewish Community Center, 6800 Deane Hill Drive Who: City of Knoxville Office of Neighborhoods, Police Advisory & Review Committee (PARC), Knoxville Police...
by design | Dec 4, 2019 | The Daily Focus
You may find that you are approaching this holiday season with a sense of dread due to the losses that you have experienced… a death of loved one, a divorce, a lifestyle change such as a loss of a job, your health or home, a financial change or an estrangement that...
