by Steve Hunley | Jul 12, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Evetty Satterfield’s Bold Move By the time this is published, I will be surprised if Evetty Satterfield, the Knox County Board of Education member from the First District, is under attack by professional agitators and anarchists. The First...
by design | Jul 12, 2020 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay MAYNARDVILLE – Republican United States Senate candidate Bill Hagerty took his campaign to Union County early last week where he greeted his supporters at a lunchtime stop at Maynardville’s Pete’s Place Restaurant Tuesday. Hagerty shook a few hands and had...
by Ray Hill | Jul 12, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill I imagine few, if any, readers remember George Grider of Memphis. Grider served one term in Congress from Shelby County, yet he deserves to be remembered due to the fact he defeated the last vestige of the old Crump machine to get to Congress. ...
by design | Jul 12, 2020 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Feeling cooped up with a bit of cabin fever as COVID-19 seems to last forever? Looking for something the family can do that’s fun, adventurous and even historic? On Saturday, August 29, the Powell community has...
by design | Jul 12, 2020 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams The score by innings on the Smokies Stadium scoreboard had an unusual look to it in the East Tennessee High School Baseball League All-Star Game. The West team had put up two runs in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth innings en route to an...
by design | Jul 12, 2020 | The Daily Focus
The Knox County Engineering & Public Works Department closed the Yarnell Road bridge in the Northwest part of the county beginning Friday, July 10, in order to begin repairs that could take up to six months. The almost 60-year-old bridge, which spans 27 feet over...
