Gibbs High School Foundation BBQ this Saturday

On Saturday, October 27, 2018, come to the Midway IGA parking lot from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to get great barbecue to benefit the Gibbs High School Foundation. You can enjoy wood smoked pulled pork barbecue along with cole slaw, baked beans, bun, homemade sauce and a...

Beloved Country Doctor

By Ralphine Major It was on a Sunday morning at church when she became sick.  It had been a difficult pregnancy.  The young couple left church and headed up the highway to the doctor’s home. The year was 1954, and Dr. A. D. Simmons was a young, country doctor.  The...

Dealing with customer service

By Joe Rector I was sitting in the waiting room of the hospital in Lenoir City as my wife had a stress test run. It’s not my favorite thing to do at 7:00 a.m. in the morning, but I’d never let my girlfriend drive herself to such an ordeal. What made the ordeal even...

A Prayer

By Rosie Moore “O, Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget Thee, do not thou forget me.” This prayer was uttered by a soldier before a battle in the English Civil War. His name was Sir Jacob Astly. Some of our days on earth can be like a series of...

Paying attention

 By Dr. Jim Ferguson One thing that really irks my wife is people who walk on the wrong side of the road. Folks, it’s dangerous to walk with your back to oncoming traffic. And it is especially dangerous for pedestrians when cars pass each other and have to choose...

E-911 Board looking for new director

  By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The E-911 Board of Directors is looking to hire a new executive director and Wednesday morning the board heard from Knoxville Fire Chief Stan Sharp on the search. Sharp told his fellow board members that the search committee...