Note: I’ve written about education in Knox County for many years and knew Gary Harmon as the president of the Knox County Education Association (“union work,” as he calls it.) …
Talking county government
Knox County Commissioners Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas will leave office Sept. 1, but they’re continuing the constituent meetings they’ve been holding since they came into office in 2014. Here …
Collaborative effort transforms viaduct stairway
For 99 years, the oddly configured – sort of square, sort of spiral – stairway connecting the Gay Street viaduct to the Jackson Avenue railroad yards and Old City down …
Haney wants pay raise for teachers, deputies
The Democratic Party’s 2018 nominee for Knox County mayor got her first glimpse of Knoxville from the back of a motorcycle more than 25 years ago.
Linda Haney and her husband, …
Beverly Road rezoning postponed until June commission meeting
A controversial rezoning vote on an 88-acre parcel on Beverly Road scheduled to be heard at next Tuesday’s county commission meeting will be postponed until June.
The matter was originally on …
Jacobs says he’s not a scary guy
When Glenn Jacobs walked into the courthouse to watch the election commission certify the 23-vote margin that made him the Republican Party’s nominee for Knox County mayor, he could feel …
Carringer pledges ‘no’ vote on Beverly Road project
It was hot and it was heated.
More than 75 North Knoxville/Fountain City residents sweated through an outdoor meeting May 14 to voice their opinions of a proposed residential development on …
Fulton grads take ‘Senior Stroll’ through elementary schools
Project GRAD’s Class of 2018 from Fulton High School visited the six feeder elementary schools Friday for the traditional Senior Stroll. The seniors walked the halls of their old elementary …