by design | Oct 14, 2018 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay Knoxville Focus sportswriter Steve Williams has a long career and on Friday night, he was honored by Careacter Star, an organization founded in East Tennessee to recognize student-athletes for academics, community service and character. Williams, who has...
by design | Oct 14, 2018 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Knoxville Focus is sitting down with several city and county officials, residents and community leaders for a series of casual chats that will, hopefully, let you get to know them on a personal level. Our first chat was with Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs. ...
by design | Oct 14, 2018 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com More than $217,000 is being added to a street project by the City of Knoxville because of some unexpected problems due to the age of the route. The council voted to add the funding, bringing the total project total to...
by design | Oct 14, 2018 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com There’s no question that the Knox County Jail needs to expand to house the increasing number of inmates. An overpopulation of prisoners being held pending trial and those jailed after convictions are placed at the Roger D....
by design | Oct 14, 2018 | The Daily Focus
By Mike Steely The Knox County Joint Education Committee will meet Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the Andrew Johnson Building. Originally established to discuss differences between the Knox County Commission and the Knox County Board of Education the committee has several new...
by design | Oct 13, 2018 | The Daily Focus
~From UTAD AUBURN, Ala. – Tennessee outscored No. 21/21 Auburn 17-7 in the final two quarters of Saturday’s game to earn its first road and SEC win of the season at Jordan-Hare Stadium. “We beat a really good football team today,” head coach Jeremy...
by design | Oct 13, 2018 | The Daily Focus
Knoxville area residents are urged to add Sunday, October 21 to their calendars for the annual American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk at World’s Fair Park. Registration for this event begins at 1 p.m. and the walk starts at 3 p.m. ...
by design | Oct 11, 2018 | The Daily Focus
Celebrate pumpkin spice and everything nice at fall & harvest festivals, arts and crafts festivals, fall color pontoon boat rides, fall hikes, pumpkin painting, storytelling nights around the campfire, chili cook-offs, fright nights, cemetery & ghost tours,...
by design | Oct 10, 2018 | The Daily Focus
The latest lab report has confirmed the presence of West Nile virus (WNV) in Culex mosquitoes in the Fourth Avenue, Tower Drive, Choto/Heron’s Point, and Gulf Park/Venice Road areas of Knox County. Following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) protocol,...
by design | Oct 10, 2018 | The Daily Focus
~ From the Office of Neighborhoods Coming up this Thursday, Oct. 11 from 5-9 p.m. in Market Square is a family friendly (and FREE!) way to get to know your local firefighters. There will be fire trucks onsite, opportunities to learn about fire...
