by design | Dec 10, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Raymond E. Willis of Indiana By Ray Hill Raymond Eugene Willis was literally born into the printing business. His father, Frank, had been a veteran of the Civil War and owned the Waterloo Press. The son of “a country editor” and one of six brothers and eight children,...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘After an extensive nationwide search…’ By Tom Mattingly Sometimes, the best coaching search is no search. Case in point. Go back to Dec. 3, 1976, a day Big Orange Country had anxiously awaited. A Tennessee legend was coming home as head football...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Nagi
Where Tennessee Football Stands Today By Mark Nagi Well, the regular season is now complete for the Tennessee Volunteers. The Vols finished at 8-4 and now wait for word on their bowl game destination (which was not yet known when The Focus went to press). There are...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Rector
Bullies make life harder By Joe Rector As has been stated in other pieces of mine, I was an ugly child. No, that doesn’t mean things are different now. A young boy with a burr haircut, buck teeth, a round belly, and popsicle-stick legs has little eye appeal. He is,...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Major
The Amazing Life of Elizabeth ‘Lib’ Peters McCluskey By Ralphine Major I thought she had a look of elegance. She was friendly and kind. She was also a great role model. She was Elizabeth Peters McCluskey—a pastor’s wife, a mother, a grandmother, and a...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
Winds of Change? I care about the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. Elon Musk By Dr. Jim Ferguson Perhaps it’s just me, but I don’t remember so many salutations of “Happy Thanksgiving” as I heard this year. I found it infectious, so I responded in kind....
