by design | Jul 16, 2023 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Park and Play Mobile visits Solway Park By Ken Lay Knox County Parks and Recreation’s Park and Play Mobile rolled into Northwest Knox County Thursday morning as it made a stop at Solway Park, located at 3205 Solway Drive. The event is the third hosted by Knox County...
by design | Jul 16, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Municipal Judge: Experience Matters Some folks are shaking their heads wondering why the Sierra Club would endorse a candidate for Knoxville’s Municipal judge. Just what threat to the environment is represented by traffic court? The incumbent...
by design | Jul 16, 2023 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
South Haven is proud and growing By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com South Haven is as unique as any Knoxville neighborhood with a wide variety of people, incomes, homes and religious backgrounds and lots of pride in their part of the city. The...
by design | Jul 16, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Oscar DePriest of Illinois By Ray Hill The name of Oscar DePriest will surely be unfamiliar to most readers, but during his time, he was a political power in Chicago and was the first Black person to be elected to the City Council in the Windy City. DePriest also...
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First Black president of KFOA is a ‘great leader’ By Steve Williams Among the many hats Adronicus ‘Bam’ Thomas has worn since he came to Knoxville from rural central Alabama in the 1980s, the ‘white hat’ he wears as a high school football referee means as much to him...
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Catholic moves forward with co-head coaches By Steve Williams It is rare – perhaps even unprecedented – that a Knoxville high school football team will have interim co-head coaches this coming season. But that’s what has happened at Knoxville Catholic, where Steve...
