by Ray Hill | May 27, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill In February of 1945, a war weary and sick Franklin D. Roosevelt was on his way to Crimea in the Soviet Union. Technically in the Ukraine, the Crimea is on a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea and was once the playground of the Russian Czars...
by design | May 27, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Amy Box Fellhoelter Some people might describe the newly opened Parkview Retirement Community for active seniors as posh or elegant, but a better description for the independent living facility would be family and community, which is echoed by the residents as...
by design | May 27, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Alex Norman What a week for the Bearden Bulldogs… Taking the momentum of a sectional victory over rival Farragut with them two and a half hours to the west, the Bulldogs won three games in four days, on their way to capturing their fifth state championship,...
by design | May 27, 2019 | The Daily Focus
By Mike Steely A local group is growing among downtown and near-downtown residents. The City Council Movement fielded two viable candidates two years ago, electing Seema Singh-Perez to Knoxville City Council. Their candidate Amelia Parker also ran a close race as a...
by design | May 27, 2019 | Public Notice
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Under and by virtue of the authority vested in the undersigned Trustee, and in execution of that certain Deed of Trust made by Teddy D Parton and wife, Robin A. Parton, dated November 6, 2017, recorded at Instrument No. 201711060028439 in the...
by design | May 26, 2019 | The Daily Focus
“Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that the whole of the territory ceded to the United Sates by the State of North-Carolina shall be one State, and that the same is hereby declared to...
by design | May 25, 2019 | The Daily Focus
“Raising Public Awareness of the Importance of Water Quality and Microplastics in the Tennessee River” Microplastics have been a topic in recent news. Dr. Martin Knoll, a professor of geology and hydrology at Sewanee: The University of the South, will explain...
by design | May 24, 2019 | The Daily Focus
On Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, 2019, an annual Memorial Day Ceremony will be held at Knoxville National Cemetery. The ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. The public is invited to attend. The ceremony will be held by the Major William A. McTeer Camp #39, Sons of...
by design | May 23, 2019 | The Daily Focus
TDOT to Suspend All Lane Closure Activity for the Holiday Weekend Motorists won’t be delayed by road construction as they travel Tennessee’s highways this Memorial Day weekend. The Tennessee Department of Transportation will suspend all construction-related lane...
by design | May 22, 2019 | The Daily Focus
The Knoxville Museum of Art recently received a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the exhibition Beauford Delaney: Through the Unusual Door February 7-May 10, 2020 with an accompanying catalogue. National Endowment for the Arts Acting...
