by design | Dec 27, 2020 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Fountain City Auction opens year with Advertisement Auction By Ken Lay Fountain City Auction will soon begin the New Year with its biggest event of 2021. On Saturday, January 2, it will host its 16th annual Advertisement Auction. But COVID-19 has made things a little...
by Steve Hunley | Dec 27, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Mayor Crazy Bill DeBlasio, whose real name is William Wilhelm, Jr., is the perfect chief executive for a crazy town, because he is clearly the kind of nut-cake that could feed the squirrels of the world for quite some time. Of course these days he has...
by design | Dec 27, 2020 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams The Battle in Rocky Top youth football tournament turned 15 years old this season and “it’s really grown,” said Josh Jones, who started the tourney in 2006. Jones, a former longtime local youth coach who now is the quarterbacks coach and...
by Ray Hill | Dec 27, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill In the twentieth century, only four nominees to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States have been rejected; all were the nominees of a Republican president and three of the four were rejected by Democrats, who controlled the United States...
by design | Dec 27, 2020 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Local high school teams and student-athletes were ready and eager to help during the holidays this year like they normally do, but with the pandemic, this hasn’t been a normal year. Therefore, their community service wasn’t needed as some...
by Tom Mattingly | Dec 27, 2020 | Columnist, Mattingly, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Tom Mattingly On October 27, 1928, Maj. Bob Neyland was in the midst of his first tenure as Volunteer head coach. The Vols had defeated Alabama the week before in Tuscaloosa, 15-13, led by Gene McEver’s 98-yard return of the opening kickoff. Neyland’s charges were...
