by Steve Williams | Jun 26, 2016 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
By Steve Williams I lost my dad on March 5. I think of him every day. My eyes already are full of tears as I try to write this first paragraph. He died peacefully at the Parkwest Hospital Senior Behavioral Health Center on a Saturday evening about 10:30. Dad had...
by Steve Williams | Jun 19, 2016 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was Steve Williams’ Father’s Day column that ran in The Knoxville Focus in 2008. Steve’s father, Mr. Bob Williams, passed away March 5 of this year. Steve wanted to rerun this column and plans to write a follow-up column on his dad for our June 27...
by Steve Williams | Jun 5, 2016 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
By Steve Williams Knoxville high school baseball has spoiled us in the new millennium. In fact, you have to go back to 2000 to find the last spring Knox County didn’t have a team in any of the TSSAA finals. Grace Christian Academy kept the string of 16 years intact by...
by Steve Williams | May 30, 2016 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
By Steve Williams The four senior members of Seymour’s softball team did not win a game in the Class AAA state tournament as their high school careers came to an end last week in Murfreesboro, but they didn’t go home empty handed. They got their diplomas. Instead of...
by Steve Williams | May 23, 2016 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Sweat was still pouring off Gashaw Duhamel several minutes after he had competed in the 3200-meter run in the East Tennessee Class A-AA State Sectional Thursday afternoon at Christian Academy of Knoxville. Of course beads of perspiration weren’t...