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...
Bill Hagerty stumps in Union County
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...
Congressman George Grider of Memphis
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. ...
Plan now for the Powell Station Celebration
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...
West All-Stars prevail 8-3 and ‘enjoy the experience’
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...
The Knoxville Focus for July 6, 2020
Knox Health Board mandates masks By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Wednesday’s meeting of the Knox County Board of Health saw masks being required in most indoor businesses to flatten the surge of COVID-19 but the effort saw some resistance. The...
Odds & Ends of This & That, X
By Steve Hunley Reviving Gov. Lee’s ESSA Plan? In May of this year, a Nashville judge ruled Governor Bill Lee’s educational savings account legislation, approved by the Tennessee General Assembly, unconstitutional. A collective “hurrah” went up from teachers’ unions,...
Knox County Museum of Education needs your help
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com If you are a graduate of any Knox County school you may be interested in the Knox County Museum of Education, next to Old South High School. The volunteer-operated, non-profit museum has just about everything, from...
The Farmer’s Friend: James G. Polk of Ohio
By Ray Hill When the Founding Fathers came up with the House of Representatives as a legislative instrument meant to reflect the will of the people, they succeeded perhaps better than they could possibly have known. The body has endured remarkably well since the...
Hudson gets one last opportunity to play baseball in Knoxville
By Ken Lay When the COVID-19 pandemic brought an end to the 2019-2020 school year and the spring sports season in March, Gibbs High School baseball player Spencer Hudson was one of many area seniors to lose his final season. Baseball wasn’t over for Hudson as he had...
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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...