by design | Jul 1, 2019 | The Daily Focus
While most Americans celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, the Museum of Appalachia marks the occasion with an old- fashioned “anvil shoot”. Every 4th of July, the Museum uses gunpowder to launch a 200-pound anvil hundreds of feet into the air! “When the...
by design | Jul 1, 2019 | Public Notice
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE WHEREAS, JOSEPH A. SHANKS, by a Deed of Trust dated January 20, 2012, of record in instrument number 201202070043396 in the Knox County Register of Deeds Office (the “Deed of Trust”) conveyed the real property herein described to...
by design | Jun 30, 2019 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Community policing and the candidates for mayor By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com One of the topics addressed during the League of Women Voters Mayoral Candidate Forum Tuesday night was community policing. Knoxville is currently planning to relocate the police and...
by Steve Hunley | Jun 30, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley There has been a lot of attention paid to the remarks made by Knox County Sheriff’s deputy Grayson Fritts, as there should have been. Fritts, a pastor, called for gay people to be executed in a sermon to his flock. It is incredible to think any...
by design | Jun 30, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The Dover Corporation is in the process of renovating the former Tennessee State Supreme Court building which sat vacant for about 20 years. The city has already granted a payment-in-lieu-of taxes agreement and last week the...
by Ray Hill | Jun 30, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Edward H. Crump, undisputed leader of the Shelby County machine and congressman from Tennessee’s Tenth District, was the primary focus during an especially bitter battle for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1932. Former governor Malcolm...
