by design | Jun 7, 2026 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Screen time, age-appropriate books focus of BOE meeting By Pete Gawda Limiting student use of computers and age-appropriate books were hot topics at the Thursday, June 4, meeting of the Knox County Board of Education, attracting a lot of attention from board members...
by design | Jun 7, 2026 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Brent Gibson Won The Primary, It’s Time To Move On To The General Election The complaint of Michael Davis, one of four candidates in the recent GOP primary for Knox County Sheriff, will be heard this Wednesday by the Tennessee Republican Party ...
by design | Jun 7, 2026 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay Knox County held its annual tax sale early last week. The final numbers weren’t in by press time, but Knox County Trustee Justin Biggs couldn’t have been happier. “The thing that’s the most exciting to me is that we’ve got these properties back on the tax...
by design | Jun 7, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Charles Edison was the son of one of America’s foremost innovators and entrepreneurs, Thomas Alva Edison. Thomas A. Edison is perhaps the best remembered inventor in American history. Yet when Charles Edison died, the Paterson Morning Call...
by design | Jun 7, 2026 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams L.A. Headrick is back at home and doing what he loves to do. And that’s coaching at Central High School, where he started in 1999. He resigned last November after his second season as the head coach at South-Doyle. It was his first head...
by design | Jun 7, 2026 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com The Knoxville-Knox County Emergency Management District Board of Directors met Tuesday and voted to make several recommendations on the agency’s 2027 budget. Knox 911 Director Brad Anders told the members the agency...
