by design | Apr 19, 2026 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay As the weather warms in East Tennessee, athletes usually head outside to compete in baseball, softball, soccer, tennis, track and field and flag football. High school gyms have largely been empty except when inclement weather forces teams to work out...
by design | Apr 19, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Eleanor Roosevelt was no ordinary First Lady. Separated from her husband, at least emotionally if not literally, by past mistakes, Mrs. Roosevelt set out to recreate herself while living in the White House. If her husband was known worldwide, then quite...
by design | Apr 19, 2026 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Development was expected following the four-lane expansion of Schaad Road from Oak Ridge Highway to Middlebrook Pike. What some residents there didn’t expect was a new Walmart complex about midway along the route. At...
by design | Apr 19, 2026 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Fulton looks like it’s on the path to Murfreesboro again, but this time to a real TSSAA state tournament in girls flag football. Last year’s state play wasn’t fully sanctioned and was more of a warm-up for the new sport. Regular season...
by design | Apr 19, 2026 | The Daily Focus
The Farragut Museum has produced two scavenger hunts for kids to learn local history. The first one, titled “If the Trees Could Talk,” takes families throughout the Town of Farragut to find eight historically-significant spots, each marked by a tree. The tree...
by design | Apr 18, 2026 | The Daily Focus
~ from Trees Knoxville Trees Knoxville invites the community to celebrate our community forest at its annual Tree Fest on Friday, April 24, from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Baker Creek Preserve. This free, family-friendly event brings together residents of all ages to learn...
