By Ken Lay The 2021 high school football season is three weeks old and Farragut High School is still in search of its first victory. But longtime Admirals head coach isn’t discouraged. “These kids continue to slowly get better,” Courtney said after Farragut dropped...
Corryton’s True Hero
By Ralphine Major The first news report I heard said Knoxville. The next one, Corryton. A third identified him as a Gibbs High School graduate. United States (U.S.) Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss was one of the 13 American heroes who died in the recent attack on...
The Knoxville Focus for August 30, 2021
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com “Over 2,200 more people voted early in-person in 2021 than in 2017, with New Harvest Park being the site with the most voters,” Chris Davis, Knox County Election Coordinator, told The Focus Friday. Davis attributed...
How to suppress voter turnout? Have an off year, non-partisan election
By Steve Hunley The City of Knoxville elections are pathetic. Despite the thousands of dollars in spending a fraction of the eligible voters are coming out to vote. As of this writing, over 6,000 people have voted early and by absentee ballot. My goodness, there...
Fifty years later, Sept. 3 again will be a special day for CHS
By Steve Williams Frank “Boomer” Boring took a peek into the future 50 years ago and what he foresaw is scheduled to come to fruition this Friday night. Boring was entering his 16th season as head coach of Central High’s football team when the Bobcats moved into their...
The Tennessee Nightingale: Grace Moore
By Ray Hill The story of Grace Moore is not at all political in nature and hopefully readers of this column will not be sorely disappointed. Miss Moore’s story is, however uniquely and quintessentially American. It is both an interesting story and certainly part of...
From a distance
By John J. Duncan Jr. I have never seen, heard or read about a president who has done as much damage to this country in as short a time as Joe Biden has. Brit Hume summed it up best a few months ago when he said on Fox News that Joe Biden had a reputation as a...
TMI
Those who can make you believe absurdities; can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire By Dr. Jim Ferguson Years ago, when I was in traditional medical practice, I learned about TMI, defined by my nurse as “too much information.” One afternoon while going to my next...
Defense contributes big in Fulton’s second win
By Steve Williams Fulton High may have a big-play offense, but its defense can play some football, too. The Falcons kept Central in single digits most of the night before winning the latest meeting in the annual Battle of Broadway 31-14 Friday at Bob Black Field. With...
Scrappy, gritty, and error-plagued: Webb prevails over Gibbs, 17-14
By Bill Howard Gibbs High School rolled into Webb School of Knoxville this past Friday night on a high after defeating Halls on opening night. Against the Spartans, the Eagles ran twice as many plays (85 to 42) from scrimmage, had 127 more total yards (434 to 307),...
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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...