By Steve Williams Halls enters post-season softball play tonight on a high note, while Gibbs is coming off a rough week. In an exciting game between the two rivals last Wednesday night in Corryton, the Lady Red Devils scored two runs in the top of the seventh inning...
By Steve Williams Freshman star Chloe Truss led the way, but it took a supporting cast for Knoxville Catholic to capture its first Knoxville Interscholastic League Track and Field girls’ championship in school history. After sweeping the three sprint races...
Proposed city budget $6.3 million higher, no tax increase By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Mayor Indya Kincannon delivered her State of the City address Wednesday and announced an increase in the proposed budget. There’s no property tax increase...
By Steve Hunley Kincannon’s Budget And More City Mayor Indya Kincannon sent out a press release with her budget presentation last week. If it wasn’t quite revisionist history, then it was certainly rearranging the facts. Kincannon bragged about the fiscal health of...
Legacy Parks Foundation broke ground last week on the Intergenerational Playspace at Beverly Park in north Knoxville. It will be the first park in the region to be purposefully designed to create active interactions between multiple generations, especially children...
By Ray Hill Noah M. Mason of Illinois looked like precisely what he was: an old schoolteacher. Diminutive in stature, white-haired and frequently with a stern expression etched into his face, Noah Mason served for twenty-six years as a congressman from Illinois. ...
An open letter to Coach Heupel By Steve Williams I’m a longtime sports writer in this area and fan of the Tennessee Vols and I want to share some information with you about Chandler Wilson, who was the starting quarterback at Carter High in the Strawberry Plains...
Gibbs and Carter aren’t done yet By Steve Williams Gibbs and Carter are on a post-season collision course in softball. You can see it coming. The fact that the 10-time state champion Lady Eagles defeated the up-and-coming Lady Hornets for the second time in a close...
Bishop ‘made something out of nothing’ Karns product leading rusher in O&W game By Steve Williams Pat Ryan has always been a straight shooter as the color analyst on UT football radio broadcasts. And Bob Kesling, who will be in his 25th season as the Vols’...
Golden Memories: Central baseball in 1973 had a golden tourney run By Steve Williams High school baseball teams of this era can learn something from the Central High team’s story of 1973. Coach Tommy Schumpert’s Bobcats were 10-8 in the regular season that spring, but...
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