by design | Aug 14, 2023 | Columnist, Major
Gibbs Midway IGA By Ralphine Major The event brought lots of fun to the grocery store parking lot! Early in the summer, Cruze Farm, Snow Daddy’s, and 99.1 The Sports Animal were among the attractions outside the Midway IGA in Gibbs Center, Corryton, Tennessee. Since...
by design | Aug 14, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘Wait ’til you see that run on the newsreels’ By Tom Mattingly Radio play-by-play announcers from a long-ago day, exemplified by Bill Stern and Ted Husing, were quite good in describing a game their listeners couldn’t see. Here’s an example. The venue was the 1951...
by design | Aug 14, 2023 | Columnist, Steely
Finding Uncle Luke’s Moonshine Still More Than A Day Away By Mike Steely We’re blessed to have so many options for outdoor adventures in our region. Over the years I’ve ventured here and there in our mountains looking for interesting and abandoned places and linking...
by design | Aug 13, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Ward Proposes Regional Mental Health Facility As this is written, County Commissioner Kyle Ward is moving along his resolution asking for support from the State of Tennessee to help fund a mental health center for Knoxville. Knoxville is the only city...
by design | Aug 13, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill While Lucille Foster McMillin is barely remembered today, she was a pioneer for women in public service during her time. Married to Benton McMillin, a member of Congress for twenty years and twice governor of Tennessee, Lucille Foster McMillin was...
by design | Aug 7, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Biden Scandals Are Bigger Than Watergate By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Miranda Devine, a columnist with The New York Post, wrote on July 26th that it was “mystifying” that President Biden would be bragging about “Bidenomics…since polls show only one in...
