by design | Sep 16, 2018 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Pete Gawda For the second straight month yellow shirted members of Northshore Corridor, which represents several home owners associations, packed the main assembly room at the City County Building to protest the proposed Post Oak Bend subdivision. Last month the...
by Ray Hill | Sep 16, 2018 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill “Live so that when you die, even the undertaker will be sorry.” Sign that hung in the business office of Jim Cummings. James H. Cummings is likely a name unfamiliar to most readers, but during his time he was a power and a man to be reckoned with. When he...
by design | Sep 16, 2018 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Longtime coaches combine for 76 years By Steve Williams Jeanne Fair and Sharon Brown have coached everything but football at Tennessee School for the Deaf. And after a combined 76 years, the two are still at it and having fun. Fair is in her 44th year coaching at TSD....
by design | Sep 16, 2018 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Hurricane Florence had an effect on high school football in Knoxville last week. Tennessee School for the Deaf’s home football opener scheduled for Thursday night was postponed when South Carolina School for Deaf closed early last week because of the...
by design | Sep 16, 2018 | The Daily Focus
~ from UTAD KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Sophomore running back Ty Chandler rushed 12 times for a career-best 158 yards and a touchdown as Tennessee recorded its first shutout since 2016 in a 24-0 victory over UTEP on Saturday afternoon at Neyland Stadium. A crowd of 87,074 was...
by design | Sep 15, 2018 | The Daily Focus
Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs sponsored the monthly free Veterans’ breakfast on Saturday, September 15, 2018 at the Community Center in Powell. There is a FREE Veteran’s breakfast the 3rd Saturday of each month. Mayor Jacobs has stated that he is a friend of veterans...
by design | Sep 15, 2018 | The Daily Focus
Tennessee residents are invited to participate in a project to ramp up backyard composting across the state. The program, called “Come, Post Your Compost,” is coordinated by Tennessee Environmental Council as a way to keep food waste out of Tennessee’s landfills and...
by design | Sep 15, 2018 | The Daily Focus
Tate’s School, located in West Knoxville just off Cedar Bluff Rd., is pleased to share that fourth (4th) grader Aiden Barger’s documentary short, “GIVING BACK,” was selected to be screened at the Knox Film Festival on September 15th at 3:45 pm. “We are so proud of...
by design | Sep 14, 2018 | The Daily Focus
Tennessee Red Cross Opens 3 Shelters for Evacuees The American Red Cross is preparing for a large relief effort across multiple states as Hurricane Florence continues its march toward the East Coast. This is a dangerous storm and the Red Cross urges people in its path...
by design | Sep 14, 2018 | The Daily Focus
Residents of North and South Carolina under evacuation welcomed by zoo staff. Zoo Knoxville is offering free admission to residents of North and South Carolina who have evacuated their homes due to the threat of Hurricane Florence. “The uncertainty and...
