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Release Time Programs Produce Benefits for Students

Release Time Programs Produce Benefits for Students

by Steve Hunley | Nov 17, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley For years there has been a tug and pull about out of school time programs and whether or not it benefits the students. It will likely not surprise you some of those most solidly opposed to out of school time programs are some folks and the public...

Girl Scouts Snowman Project Benefits ETCH Patients

Girl Scouts Snowman Project Benefits ETCH Patients

by design | Nov 17, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Amy Box Fellhoelter The hustle and bustle of Market Square on Nov. 9th was full of Christmas shoppers, football fans, and farmer’s market patrons, but among the downtown crowds was a room full of Girls Scouts hoping to make someone else’s holiday season a little...

Tennessee’s Hermitage District, VIII

Tennessee’s Hermitage District, VIII

by Ray Hill | Nov 17, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ray Hill Congressman Joseph W. Byrns, Jr. had first been elected in 1938 and as befitting Tennessee’s “Hermitage District,” so-called because it contained the home of General Andrew Jackson, was solidly Democratic.  Byrns was being challenged for the Democratic...

Aspiring educators receive scholarships from Retired Teachers Association

Aspiring educators receive scholarships from Retired Teachers Association

by design | Nov 17, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Ken Lay Six aspiring teachers received scholarships last week at the annual Knox County Retired Teachers Association Scholarship Foundation Awards Ceremony and Luncheon. The event was held at the Foundry at The World’s Fair Site Thursday. Each of the recipients...

Central’s playoff express picking up steam again

Central’s playoff express picking up steam again

by design | Nov 17, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Williams Central High’s football team again appears to be built for a post-season playoff run. The defending Class 5A state champions lost their last two regular season games and sputtered for most of the first half before getting things rolling in a...

The Knoxville Focus for November 11, 2019

The Knoxville Focus for November 11, 2019

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

Caswell Park land decision postponed By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com The one issue that drew a large crowd to the City Council meeting Tuesday was tossed over to the new city council. Councilwoman Gwen McKenzie, who represents East Knoxville, moved...

Release Time Programs Produce Benefits for Students

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

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

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

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...

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