Police Review Meeting Draws A Crowd By Focus Staff The Police Advisory and Review Committee, the city mayor and the city police department were praised and criticized last Monday evening in a public forum held at Vine Middle School. PARC meetings normally draw a very...
Knoxville Focus for December 8, 2014
Seymour holding 21st Annual Christmas Parade The Seymour Area Chamber of Commerce is proud to host the 21st Annual Seymour Community Christmas Parade on Saturday, December 13, 2014, at 3:00 p.m. This year’s parade theme is “Home for the Holidays,” a wonderful tribute...
Knoxville Focus for December 1, 2014
Internal Auditor Empowered? By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The superintendent of schools may be called back before the Knox County Commission to answer questions regarding the Physical Plant Upgrade (PPU) funds being used in the construction of schools. The...
Carrying handguns
By Sharon Frankenberg, Attorney at Law Article I, Section 26 of the Tennessee Constitution provides: “That the citizens of this State have a right to keep and bear arms for their common defense; but the Legislature shall have the power, by law, to regulate the...
Knoxville Focus for November 24, 2014
S-D Cadet Receives Bronze Cross Award On November 20, South-Doyle High School Army Junior ROTC Senior Cadet Jacob S. Hale was presented with the Legion of Valor Bronze Cross Award from the Legion of Valor of the United States of America Inc., an organization founded...
Focus on the Law: Amendment Two Recap
By Sharon Frankenberg, Attorney at Law The results from the November 4, 2104 election are still unofficial but preliminary results on Amendment 2 show 831,549 votes statewide in favor of the amendment and 533,522 against it. Amendment 2 amends Section 3 of Article VI...
Knoxville Focus for Monday, November 17, 2014
‘Where Inspiration Meets Perspiration’ By Joe Rector On Saturday morning, Nov. 8, the parking lot at Bearden United Methodist Church filled with cars from other areas of Tennessee and other states as people arrived to participate in a yoga workshop offered by former...
Focus on the Law: More on Adoption in Tennessee
By Sharon Frankenberg, Attorney at Law Adoption is covered by Chapter 1 of Title 36 of the Tennessee Code Annotated as well as by multiple court decisions interpreting the same. The process of adoption is a legal proceeding which permanently transfers the parental...
Knoxville Focus for November 10, 2014
Another School System Scandal By Sally Absher sallyabsher@knoxfocus.com Last Wednesday during the regular KCS BOE meeting, Amber Rountree initiated a request for an external forensic audit of the Knox County Schools credit cards. Rountree made the request after seeing...
Knoxville Focus for November 3, 2014
Four Central Alumni Honored Two artists, a decorated career veteran and a noted educator are the distinguished alumni nominated to the Central High School “Wall of Fame” for 2014. This year’s honorees are Chloe Ault Harrington, Class of 1935, an award-winning Fountain...
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