by design | Mar 17, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Knoxville Finance Director Jim York told the City Council Tuesday that $15,155,694 is needed in new and shifted money for several projects. His request was approved on first reading after he explained the money will go to three...
by Ray Hill | Mar 17, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Samuel Watkins Overton, Jr. came from one of Tennessee’s most prominent families; Overton was the great-great grandson of Judge John Overton, a contemporary of General Andrew Jackson and the founder of Memphis. Overton joined the law firm founded by...
by design | Mar 17, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Fulton was wide awake for a 10 o’clock tipoff in the Class AA semifinals Friday morning in Murfreesboro and built a 13-point lead in the first half of its 66-55 win over East Nashville Magnet School in the TSSAA state basketball tournament. “I liked...
by design | Mar 17, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Our region has lost one of its leaders with the passing of Arthur Seymour, Jr., well-known attorney and community leader. Seymour passed away after a battle with cancer at age 74 on March 11. Services will be held at 3 p.m.,...
by design | Mar 17, 2019 | The Daily Focus
The National Quartet Convention will be producing its third annual Spring festival in Sevierville at the beginning of April called “NQC Spring Break.” Produced by NQC, Gospel music’s largest annual event drawing nearly 40,000 from 40 states and half dozen...
by design | Mar 16, 2019 | The Daily Focus
The deadline is soon approaching to submit an Emerald Academy enrollment application for the upcoming school year. For families interested in sending their child to Knoxville’s first and only public charter school, applications must be submitted online at...
by design | Mar 15, 2019 | The Daily Focus
Public Invited to Library’s Books Sandwiched In Lunch and Learn Program on March 27 Knox County Public Library invites the public to join Dr. Kelsey Ellis for a discussion of The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters by...
by design | Mar 14, 2019 | The Daily Focus
As part of Spring cleanup and beautification, City crews started bi-weekly brush pickup on Monday, March 11, 2019. Each year, City crews put brush collection on pause for leaf pickup season, which takes place from November through February. This past leaf season,...
by design | Mar 13, 2019 | The Daily Focus
Registration now open for 6K run and 6K/2K walk The East Tennessee Kidney Foundation (ETKF) invites families, runners and volunteers to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and support local dialysis patients by participating in its Knox Shamrock FestTM March 15-16 in downtown...
by design | Mar 12, 2019 | The Daily Focus
Knoxville residents have multiple opportunities to get in touch with their Irish roots this weekend as downtown hosts two festivals, two road runs and a parade. Festival-related no-parking zones go into effect at 1 p.m. Friday and continue through 10 p.m....
