by design | Jun 7, 2026 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay Knox County held its annual tax sale early last week. The final numbers weren’t in by press time, but Knox County Trustee Justin Biggs couldn’t have been happier. “The thing that’s the most exciting to me is that we’ve got these properties back on the tax...
by design | Jun 7, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Charles Edison was the son of one of America’s foremost innovators and entrepreneurs, Thomas Alva Edison. Thomas A. Edison is perhaps the best remembered inventor in American history. Yet when Charles Edison died, the Paterson Morning Call...
by design | Jun 7, 2026 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams L.A. Headrick is back at home and doing what he loves to do. And that’s coaching at Central High School, where he started in 1999. He resigned last November after his second season as the head coach at South-Doyle. It was his first head...
by design | Jun 7, 2026 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com The Knoxville-Knox County Emergency Management District Board of Directors met Tuesday and voted to make several recommendations on the agency’s 2027 budget. Knox 911 Director Brad Anders told the members the agency...
by design | Jun 7, 2026 | The Daily Focus
Visit Knoxville announces the fourth annual FILM FEST KNOX, to take place November 12–15, 2026, in partnership with REGAL and The Public Cinema. The Elev8or Pitch is a key component of FILM FEST KNOX. “This is so exciting to already be into our fourth year of this...
by design | Jun 6, 2026 | The Daily Focus
~ from Carson-Newman University Carson-Newman University “delivers on equipping students” according to Tyson Schritter, COO of Texas-based organization, Colleges of Distinction. This week Carson-Newman was named a “College of Distinction,” as well as a...
