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If you break, it you buy it

by Steve Hunley | Nov 10, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley Knoxville had a city election last week for mayor and city council seats. There will be a new mayor and four new city council members. Out of 187,000 residents and 92,000 registered voters only 25,360 people in Knoxville cast votes for mayor. That...

Tennessee’s Hermitage District, VII

by Ray Hill | Nov 10, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Congressman Joseph W. Byrns, Jr. had first been elected to the U. S. House of Representatives in 1938, toppling incumbent Richard M. Atkinson in a hard fought campaign inside the Democratic Primary. Tennessee’s “Hermitage District,” so named because the...

Knoxville Revolutionary War patriot honored

by design | Nov 10, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

  By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com A large crowd gathered recently at a cemetery atop a hill just off North Gallaher View and Broome Roads to honor an early settler, Moses Cavett, with a grave marking ceremony. The event also saw the honoring of...

Farragut has fun, dismantles Bradley Central for playoff win

by design | Nov 10, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ken Lay Longtime Farragut High School football coach Eddie Courtney saw his team do exactly what he wanted it to do in the first round of the TSSAA Class 6A Playoffs. “I told them that I wanted them to have fun and play with effort,” Courtney said after the...

Jinks and Tucker capture state titles in cross country

by design | Nov 10, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

  By Steve Williams Seth Jinks of L&N STEM Academy bounced back at the TSSAA cross country meet this year to claim his second state championship. Jinks finished first in the Division I Small Class with a time of 16 minutes, 39.27 seconds on the 5k Percy...

Tellico Village’s VFW Post 12135 Fall Clothing Drive Tops Last Year’s Drive

by design | Nov 10, 2019 | The Daily Focus

  The 2019 clothing drive brought in 40-20 gallon bags of clothing and 50 coats. The clothing was equally divided between men and women. Thirty-one new coats were donated by the Tellico Village Kiwanis Club. After the clothing was sorted and bagged it was distributed...
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