by design | Nov 9, 2018 | The Daily Focus
Tennessee Athletics’ “Salute to Service” weekend begins this Friday as the Volunteers will recognize active members of the military and veterans through Sunday. The weekend kicks off with the National Gold Star Memorial. Titled, “Remembering Our Fallen,” the memorial...
by design | Nov 8, 2018 | The Daily Focus
The public is invited to join the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for a special Veterans Day themed bus tour entitled History in Brass and Stone: Remembering Knoxville’s Military Heritage on Sunday, November 11...
by design | Nov 8, 2018 | The Daily Focus
~ from Kelly Ellenburg, Chair, Fountain City Town Hall, Inc. Happy Fall Season, Fountain City Town Hall Members! We hope you will join us for our quarterly Town Hall Membership Meeting on November 12th at 7:00 in the Fellowship Hall of the St. Paul United Methodist...
by design | Nov 7, 2018 | The Daily Focus
In the wake of the City’s recent clearing out of a homeless enclave, alongside the tightening availability of affordable housing nationwide, a local nonprofit is leveraging growing community concerns about these issues into informed action by hosting a series of...
by design | Nov 7, 2018 | The Daily Focus
Hunters for the Hungry connects generous hunters in Knox County with Tennesseans in need Tennessee Wildlife Federation’s Hunters for the Hungry program is in full swing for the 2018 deer season. More than 80 processors throughout the state are now accepting...
by design | Nov 6, 2018 | The Daily Focus
Tennessee Interfaith Power & Light (TIPL), a statewide network of faith communities, announces an Interfaith Climate Vigil in Farragut 4 p.m., Sunday, November 18. The hour event will take place at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, 110 Sugarwood Dr. in Farragut....
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Nov 5, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan I know the question that has been burning in your mind. It’s like an itch that you have needed scratched for a long time. Well I am here to answer your question and scratch that itch. What is the question that has been gnawing in your...
by design | Nov 5, 2018 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson By the time you read this essay I will be in Portland, Oregon to see my new granddaughter, and, of course, her now big sister, Cleo. It’s hard to be contemporaneous when an essay has to be written the week before it runs in The Focus. However, I’m...
by Steve Williams | Nov 5, 2018 | Columnist, Williams
Editor’s Note: When the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association started its football classification system in the fall of 1969, The Knoxville Focus’ Steve Williams was a senior at Clinton High School and covering the Clinton Dragons for his hometown newspaper,...
by Ralphine Major | Nov 5, 2018 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major “When he was at Lincoln Memorial University (LMU), he was able to run track. He ran so fast, he was nicknamed Phantom,” Rada said. She was referring to her father, the late Dr. A. D. Simmons, who would eventually become the only medical doctor in...
