By Ken Lay MURFREESBORO— The South Doyle rugby club ended a six-month journey with a State Championship at Middle Tennessee State University recently. The Cherokees played in a grueling Tennessee Rugby Association Olympic Rugby Sevens title on Saturday, Dec. 8. It was South Doyle’s second championship in three years. The Cherokees, who were the 2011 […]
For the past three weeks I have been experimenting with Youtube hypnosis videos. While my experiments were very unscientific, I did gain a lot of insight into hypnosis and my own mental attitude. In my experiment, I focused on two issues- sleep and confidence. To obtain a baseline for sleep, I would wake up around 3 am […]
Knox County’s Holiday Festival of Lights started to shine brightly tonight at The Cove at Concord Park with a special kick-off event during which Knox County Commission Chairman Tony Norman flipped the switch to turn on the lights and start the festival. Also in attendance to show his holiday spirit was Commissioner Ed Shouse […]
Driving down Commerce Street in Nashville earlier this week, I screamed, “turn up the radio”, to my friend as two artists who I profiled in The Focus over a year ago “Megan and Liz” filtered through the radio. Later that day, I sat in a friendly stranger’s living room and watched an artist […]
Knoxville now has an app, thanks in part to Councilman Nick Della Volpe and the fine folks at Visit Knoxville. Della Volpe was taken with the idea after visiting Bardstown, KY. The city has a population of less than 20,000, but still had its own app. Della Volpe quickly learned it was inexpensive to develop […]
For the 17th consecutive year, the Knox County Finance Department has earned the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for the FY 2012-2013 budget. The GFOA award represents a significant achievement by Knox County and the finance department, and it reflects a commitment to meeting the highest principles of governmental accounting. “The […]
I have a habit of striking up conversations while waiting in line. A couple of weeks ago, while waiting to pay for ‘my daily cup of joe’, I happened to notice the gentleman in front of me. He had a bit of a nervous tick, and seemed to be in a terrible hurry, but, yet, […]
A packed house tonight of fellow Republicans celebrating the holiday spirit.
Click here to view this week’s Focus online. Judge Tim Irwin Wants Your Stuffed Animals By Focus Staff When first seeing Tim Irwin, Judge of Knox County’s Juvenile Court, one likely doesn’t think about stuffed animals. 6’7 feet tall and weighing in at almost 300 pounds, Irwin looks more like the professional football player […]
By Focus Staff In this week’s Knoxville Focus poll, likely voters were asked the question, “In your opinion, should the Superintendent of Schools in Knox County be elected by the people of appointed by the School Board?” Overall, almost 70% favor an elected Superintendent. The results differed in some districts, but even inside the City […]