KAT offers free rides for National Get On Board Day

Get on Board for Public Transit Knoxville Area Transit (KAT) will join with around 200 other public transportation systems nationwide to participate in National Get On Board Day on Thursday, April 25.  KAT will offer service fare-free to encourage the public to ride...

Remembering a Special Lady and her Kindness

The Hen House at Calfee Farms By Ralphine Major In high school, I knew her as Becky Turner—captain of the color guard in the Gibbs High School Marching Band and daughter of a Baptist minister.  By the time I caught up with her at “The Hen House at Calfee...

Who sets the date for Easter?

By Rosie Moore Easter is over, with its lovely aroma of Easter lilies and the glorious rising of Jesus to overcome the sting of death. I got to thinking, however, why does it come on a different Sunday each year? As you know, Christmas comes on the same date but not...

What Does It Mean To Redact Something?

By Jedidiah McKeehan “Redact” or “redacting” are legal terms you may have heard, or you may have heard of them in some CIA or other politically centered movie.  But what do these terms actually mean? Merriam Webster’s Dictionary defines “redact” as, “to obscure or...

Holes in jeans

By Joe Rector I’m from another generation, another time, and another planet. I must be an alien because so many things in this life baffle me. From social media to television programming, nothing makes sense to a member of the “Baby-Boom” generation. I have a Facebook...

Race for Recovery this Saturday

On Saturday, April 27, the Cornerstone of Recovery Alumni Association will host its annual “Race for Recovery,” a 5K run/walk/stroller run to benefit Susannah’s House, an East Tennessee-based nonprofit treatment program for mothers seeking recovery....