by design | Feb 28, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Jailynn Tindall’s move from Georgia to Strawberry Plains last summer has proved to be just peachy for Carter High School. Tindall, a junior, notched a TSSAA state wrestling championship in the girls’ 140-pound weight class Thursday at the Chattanooga...
by Ray Hill | Feb 28, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Congressman Sam R. Sells, a veteran of ten years in the U. S. House of Representatives, was being hard-pressed for the Republican nomination in 1920. Carroll Reece had been a farm boy who had fought with distinction during the First World War and taught...
by Tom Mattingly | Feb 28, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Tom Mattibgly Three significant hires in the early 1960s had a profound impact on the University of Tennessee athletic program and its history. Dr. W. J. Julian, known best as “Doc” or “Doc Julian,’’ and Haywood Harris came on board in 1961, as director of...
by design | Feb 28, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams In acknowledging his selection as this season’s Knox County boys basketball Coach of the Year, Bearden’s Jeremy Parrott quickly turned the spotlight on his four assistant coaches. “I’ll tell anybody,” said Parrott last week, just days after his...
by design | Feb 28, 2021 | The Daily Focus
The City is building or improving 3,800 linear feet of sidewalk on Old Broadway – a $1.6 million investment that will provide pedestrians and bicyclists a safe detour around the dense traffic hub where Broadway and Interstate 640 intersect. “For four decades,...
by design | Feb 27, 2021 | The Daily Focus
Learn how you can create a “Tennessee Smart Yard,” at a Zoom educational presentation, co-sponsored by the Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning and the UT Arboretum Society on Thursday, March 11th at 7:00 p.m. Residential areas are a significant part of our...
