by design | Nov 25, 2018 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The City of Knoxville is finalizing steps to create 53 affordable housing units for low-income senior citizens. Tuesday’s council meeting saw a series of actions toward that project beginning with the closure of a series of...
by design | Nov 25, 2018 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Over the past several weeks The Knoxville Focus has been having chats with community leaders, elected officials, neighborhood organization leaders, and really interesting people. Betty Jo Mahan recently retired as the administrative assistant to the Metropolitan...
by design | Nov 25, 2018 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Sport’s future may be based on risk vs. reward By Steve Williams With more and more knowledge about concussions becoming available, some youth football programs across the country are changing to flag football for their participants ages 13 and under and not offering...
by design | Nov 25, 2018 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams The beat goes on for the Knoxville Falcons’ youth football program. The Falcons have been big winners in the Knox Metro Youth Football League in recent years and had another banner season this fall, capturing championships in six of the eight age...
by design | Nov 25, 2018 | The Daily Focus
~ from UTAD NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Volunteers dropped their final game of the regular season to Vanderbilt, 38-13, Saturday at Vanderbilt Stadium. After trading punts to start the game, the Commodores (6-6, 3-5 SEC) took a 17-0 lead heading into the half....
by design | Nov 24, 2018 | The Daily Focus
~ from UTAD NEW YORK — In a battle of top-five teams, No. 5 Tennessee dropped a heartbreaker to second-ranked Kansas in overtime, 87-81, in the NIT Season Tip-Off championship game at the Barclays Center. The Big Orange fought the whole game, but an 18-12...
by design | Nov 23, 2018 | The Daily Focus
Highly anticipated crops like pumpkins usually get all of the attention during the autumn months. Tennessee mushrooms, however, are coming out of the woodwork this season as a nutrient powerhouse. Mushrooms provide many health benefits, including several...
by design | Nov 22, 2018 | The Daily Focus
For the seventeenth year, the University of Tennessee Food Science Department hosted the Wines of the South regional wine competition in October. Forty-seven wineries from eight states competed against one another in categories such as rosé and blush, red, sparkling,...
by design | Nov 21, 2018 | The Daily Focus
City departments spend weeks preparing for the Christmas in the City season in downtown Knoxville. It’s a big production that involves tens of thousands of lights, swags of greenery, decorated windows and the pièce de résistance, the lighted 42-foot-tall Christmas...
by design | Nov 21, 2018 | The Daily Focus
There’s not much time before the final December 15 deadline to get health coverage at HealthCare.gov. It’s more important than ever that people understand their options and get the help they need to get covered and stay covered. “There are new insurers in the...
