Lonsdale Homecoming Celebrates Local Diversity

    The 32nd Annual Lonsdale Homecoming will be held Friday, Aug. 3 through Sunday, Aug. 5, with an international theme to celebrate Lonsdale’s local diversity.   In recent years, Lonsdale community has become more and more diverse.  There are African...

MacKay is running

By Mike Steely The Knoxville Focus left out Greg MacKay from the 18th District House Democratic Primary in a story last week. MacKay is the former Administrator of Knox County Election and told The Focus that he filed a few days before the deadline. His name is on the...

‘Lollipop’

By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It was a popular song of the fifties—“The Lollipop Tree.”  Its melody and simple lyrics caught the attention of this writer.  I was around two years old.  “Lollipop” seemed the perfect name for the pup given to us by...

Nanu-nanu

By Joe Rector HBO aired a documentary about Robin Williams last week. Anyone who knows me well can quickly assure folks that I watched it. Since the beginning of his career, I followed him and lauded his creative and comedic abilities. Williams hooked me with the...

The first international singing star

By Rosie Moore When I sit down at my piano I play a lot of the old-fashioned hymns that I love and also some contemporary hymns that are becoming favorites today. One of my favorite singer of hymns is George Beverly Shea, and I play a lot of his hymns that I can still...