by Steve Williams | Mar 25, 2019 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams If you have a question about past TSSAA state basketball tournaments – like final scores of games, who the champions were or how far a team advanced in the bracket – Nelson Smotherman will have the answer. Starting in 1960 and every season since, he...
by Mike Steely | Mar 25, 2019 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely Powell Valley is located just south of Cumberland Mountain stretching from Wise County, Va., all the way into Eastern Tennessee along the Powell River. The name “Powell” comes from long-hunter Ambrose Powell, a member of Dr. Thomas Walker’s exploration...
by Ralphine Major | Mar 25, 2019 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major Winter’s wrath has left cruel reminders across America. Images of historic flooding can still be seen weeks after the rains first started coming. Homes and businesses have been destroyed. Loved ones have perished. Entire communities have been...
by Joe Rector | Mar 25, 2019 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Many of us spend much of our time wringing hands and wondering “what if.” We dream about how our lives might have been different if we’d made different choices. Most of the time, we see our situations having improved if we’d only made a different choice....
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Mar 25, 2019 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan To this day, if someone asks me what the hardest thing I have ever done in my life is, I answer that it was taking and passing the Bar exam to become a lawyer. So how do you get to the point where you are taking the Bar exam anyway? So, if someone...
by design | Mar 25, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson One of my axioms is, “I don’t find stories/essays; they find me.” “The Doctor is in…” is an opinion column, but recently a self-avowed atheist took umbrage at my religion, my opinions and my observations. Public speaking and writing take courage...
