by design | Jul 6, 2025 | Columnist, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Famous Grainger Co. Tomato Festival coming soon By Mike Steely If you’ve never attended the Grainger County Tomato Festival, you’ve missed one of the region’s largest free events. It’s coming on Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19, and it’s our neighboring county’s...
by design | Jul 6, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Augustus O. Stanley of Kentucky By Ray Hill Every state conjures politicians who are highly controversial and two of Kentucky’s most polarizing political figures were Augustus Owsley Stanley and his rival, John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham. Both men were Democrats and...
by design | Jun 30, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘A sackful of gimmicks and a burning desire to succeed’ By Tom Mattingly AUTHOR’S NOTE FOR PERSPECTIVE: This story was first written on June 12, 2007, after news broke a day earlier that Ray Mears (Nov. 8, 1926-June 11, 2007) had died in Knoxville. Much...
by design | Jun 30, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Surprises And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for a time such as this. Esther 4:14 By Dr. Jim Ferguson In the Myers-Briggs typology of personality, I am an ISTJ. These designations define me as slightly introverted, a careful observer who is logical...
by design | Jun 30, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Everyone Gets a Trophy By Joe Rector I’m old school when it comes to schools and education and make no apologies for being so. Spending 30 years in the classroom as a teacher should allow me to at least voice an opinion on the school system and the board’s decisions....
by design | Jun 30, 2025 | Columnist, Pratt
Sacred Silence: Making Room to Hear the Voice of God By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor The intention of this article is not political. I assure you that it does not lean toward Republican rhetoric or Democratic declarations. There is no...
