By Steve Hunley, Publisher publisher@knoxfocus.com This past Wednesday, December 4, the Knox County School Board held their workshop meeting and discussed moving the Central Office of Knox County Schools from the Andrew Johnson building to the vacant east TVA Tower. This is an idea that first started in 2004 with then Knox County Mayor Mike […]
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Default having been made by the Debtors in the terms, conditions and payments of a certain purchase-money indebtedness evidenced by a purchase money promissory note and secured by the lien of a Purchase Money Deed of Trust of record in Instrument No. 201212060037228 in the Register’s Office for Knox County, […]
Judge Irwin Needs Stuffed Animals By Focus Staff Tim Irwin, Judge of the Knox County Juvenile Court, is an imposing man with the demeanor of the grandfather he has become. Irwin began a program years ago, asking the public for donations of stuffed animals. Those same stuffed animals are parceled out to children whose lives […]
By Steve Hunley I am pleased to say without any hesitation that Mike McMillan is the best school board member to serve the people of the Eighth District for many, many years. While some might say Mike McMillan is slow and plodding, I would say he is methodical and determined. It is indisputably true nobody […]
By Steve Williams Central High’s football team went to work early and quickly in pursuit of a second straight TSSAA Class 5A state championship and by evening’s end it had indeed been a Black Friday at Tennessee Tech’s Overall Field. Wearing all black uniforms with red trim and numerals for the first time in their […]
By Ray Hill The United States was finally catching a glimpse of the end of the bloodiest conflict in human history, World War II, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt vacationed at his cottage in Warm Springs, Georgia. Roosevelt was sitting for a portrait by artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff, who had been chosen by the president’s former […]
By Steve Williams From elementary school through high school, Lee Henson went to Karns. Except for his time in college at Carson-Newman, he’s always been at Karns as a student, player and coach. Fittingly, in his 26th season as a basketball coach at Karns High, he was honored Tuesday night with the official announcement that […]
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com What developer Rick Dover has done with old Knoxville High School is amazing. If you ever visited the old building before Dover bought and converted it to apartments you’d be absolutely pleased. Dover, who is known for repurposing old buildings, started in Lenoir City and Loudon by buying and […]
What: Broadway Corridor Study Public Meeting When: 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019 Where: St. James Episcopal Church, 1101 N. Broadway Who: Knoxville Engineering Department staff, Toole Design Group representatives and North Knoxville stakeholders Following an initial open house in August that focused on upgrades for part of […]
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com The long abandoned Standard Knitting Mill in East Knoxville has been officially sold to a South Carolina based investment and developing company. Details of the sale and possible future use will be given Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at Pellissippi State Community College on Magnolia Avenue. The City of Knoxville […]