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Kessel: Awards, Recognitions, and Good Times!

by Ralphine Major | May 2, 2021 | Columnist, Major, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Part 11 in Dwight Kessel series By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com With Dwight Kessel’s years in public service, many well-deserved awards and recognitions have come his way. Some of the awards include Distinguished Service Award for Fifty Years of Leadership and...

A look at historic scores

by Tom Mattingly | May 2, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Tom Mattingly There are times the game-by-game scores in the Tennessee Football Media Guide, pp. 280- 296 in the 1919 version, are just a mind-numbing array of numbers, stretching from that first game in 1891, Sewanee 24, Tennessee 0, through the more recent years....

What is a Pleading?

by Jedidiah McKeehan | May 2, 2021 | Columnist, McKeehan, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Jedidiah McKeehan One term that you may have heard an attorney use is the term, “pleading.” What in the world is a pleading? Is a pleading a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Is it public record? Is it some secret document? If I take off my lawyer hat and think about...

A Day Away: Mountain sights and sounds at Old Fort

by Mike Steely | May 2, 2021 | Columnist, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:

  By Mike Steely If you’re headed east on Interstate 40 beyond Asheville, North Carolina there’s one little town right off the interstate you should take the time to stop and visit. Old Fort is aptly named. It began when George Davidson settled there and...

Powell ‘survives’ in 2-1 win over rival Gibbs

by design | May 2, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

PHOTO BY JAMES SPEARS. Dust flies as Macy Belyea of Powell slides to try and avoid a tag in Lady Panthers’ 2-1 win over Gibbs. By Steve Williams Alaina Watson, playing first base for Powell, was involved in two smacks in the softball game at Gibbs last week. She...

Korey Mobbs named Catholic football coach

by design | May 2, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ken Lay Knoxville Catholic High School introduced its new football coach last week, ending a three-week search to replace Steve Matthews. And the Irish lured a successful coach from Georgia to East Tennessee to take over the reins for the Catholic program. Korey...
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