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The Knoxville Focus for August 29, 2022

by design | Aug 28, 2022 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Senator Hagerty Hosts Coffee By Focus Staff Bill Hagerty, Tennessee’s junior United States senator, has been traveling the state during the recent congressional recess. Hagerty is listening and talking about economics with Tennesseans of all walks of life as he moves...

Political Director… Really?

by design | Aug 28, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley   Daniel Herrera and his merry band of political allies are planning and plotting. Not well, mind you, but nonetheless, they are planning and plotting. Herrera’s latest escapade is trying to create a job for his compadre Erik Wiatr. The local...

Most youth football teams now playing at high schools

by design | Aug 28, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

Only 30 teams remain at John Tarleton Park By Steve Williams A major change has been made in local youth football this season. The new Youth Athletic Conference (YAC) has been organized for 7U through 10U age groups and will include the following 12 programs: Bearden,...

The Fall of Congressman Clifford Davis, IV

by design | Aug 28, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Clifford Davis had represented Shelby County in the U.S. House of Representatives for twenty-four years when he announced he was running for his fourteenth term in 1964.  Davis had been the Democratic nominee in a 1940 special election and had won again in...

Gibbs soccer team has lofty expectations despite not having home in 2022

by design | Aug 28, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

  By Ken Lay Every high school sports team and every coach always faces tough road games during a season. That’s just a part of a grueling challenge that is a sports campaign. But the Gibbs High School girls soccer team will not play a true home game in 2022 as...
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