For most of us, Marjory Stoneman Douglas is the high school in Parkland, Florida, where 17 humans were murdered on Valentine’s Day. Many more were wounded. It is, by some …
Habitat wins final round of neighborhood battle
Habitat for Humanity has won a two-year battle with the Oakwood Lincoln Park Neighborhood Association and is free to start construction on a house at E. 431 Springdale Avenue.
City Council …
House Mountain love story: How a hike changed lives
On a fine December day in 2015, Ann Curry hiked up House Mountain to do some thinking.
She was a few minutes ahead of Bill Gurley, who had the same plan …
Echoes of the past: Why Rose marched
Last summer, Rosemarie Baechtel was stunned when she heard what the white nationalist marchers in Charlottesville were chanting:
“Blood and soil – blut und boden,” she said with undisguised disgust. “They …
Pastors ‘open it up!’ to house homeless on cold nights
It was nearly 8:30 and some of the guests in the gym-turned-dormitory at Eternal Life Harvest Center were starting to turn down the covers on their beds. Homeless guys like …
Church offers hope to homeless: Stories behind the faces
Brady and his uncle Russell (last names withheld) rolled into Knoxville on a Greyhound bus shortly after 3 a.m. last September looking for a better life. They collected their bags …
Ed Brantley: Commissioner at large
In October, Knox County Commissioner Ed Brantley told a TV reporter that he’d keep living in his house on Hardin Valley Road for a while despite having sold it to …
The lights of St. Mary’s
The lights of St. Mary’s mean Christmas at my house, but every year since Tennova announced its intention to shut the old hospital down, they’ve made me profoundly sad. How …