Election commission readies for November city election By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com The Knox County Election Commission met Wednesday morning to certify the results of the recent City of Knoxville primary election and set up plans for staffing...
Publisher’s Positions
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Woke Evil In Charlotte For the better part of the last 20 years, Knoxvillians have heard of the wonders of Charlotte, North Carolina. Mecklenburg County has been held up as a beacon of enlightenment and progress to Knoxville and...
9/11 remembered in Knoxville
9/11 remembered in Knoxville By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Knoxville held its 24th ceremony to remember the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center in New York. The event last Thursday began with patriotic bagpipe music performed by...
Edward P. Costigan
Costigan of Colorado Edward P. Costigan By Ray Hill The most widely read news magazine in the world, TIME, aptly noted, “One way to spoil a party of which you disapprove is to leave it, making a disturbance as you go.” That was the description TIME used to report the...
A look inside the Blount Mansion
A look inside the Blount Mansion By Pete Gawda In 1925, Knoxville was in danger of losing a historic landmark closely tied to the origin of the state. At that time, there was a movement to tear down William Blount’s 1792 home to build a parking lot for the Andrew...
Seventh class to be inducted Friday prior to football game
Seventh class to be inducted Friday prior to football game By Steve Williams This is the seventh year for Halls High School Athletics’ Road to Fame to be honored. Jerry Julian started the recognition in 2019 with the inaugural class including a “dandy dozen.” A...
The Knoxville Focus for September 8, 2025
2025 Tennessee Valley Fair kicks off in Chilhowee Park By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Although its future at Chilhowee Park is uncertain, the Tennessee Valley Fair opened Friday for its annual opening day business and government luncheon. The fair...
Publisher’s Positions
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley More Woke Waste After increasing property taxes by 40% - - - and seeking to increase the sales tax this November - - - the City of Knoxville is offering folks up to $5,000 of hard-earned tax dollars so that some folks can throw a...
Catching Up With George Bove
Catching Up With George Bove By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com I’ve known George Bove for several years and always found him open, courteous and very active in community and organizational events. He has relocated to Loudon County from Knoxville and...
Iowa’s Cantankerous Congressman: Harold Royce “H. R.” Gross
Iowa’s Cantankerous Congressman Harold Royce “H. R.” Gross By Ray Hill It is fair to say there was not a speck of get-along-go-along in the character of Harold Royce Gross, a former newscaster who spent 26 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing the...
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Smoky Mountain Home Health and Hospice Celebrates 30 years
Since 1982, Smoky Mountain...
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Karns LL teams are battling for state berth
By Steve Williams Karns is...
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The Knoxville Focus: Monday, August 13, 2012
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92 Boxes of Love
More than 20 volunteers...
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South-Doyle Delivers Shutout over Heritage
By Adam Sullivan It’s not...
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Rosie’s World
Rosie Moore celebrated her...