A graveside service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10, at Highland Memorial Cemetery for Dr. Samuel E. Bratton Jr., who died Jan. 3 at home after a …
Age: Just a number?
If you happened to be in a certain Kroger last week while I was there shopping with grandson Gardner, you probably heard that “Gigi is 66.”
No, it’s not my birthday. …
Jacquelynne Prince: Hope on the horizon
For Jacquelynne Prince, the prospect of catching COVID-19 was never a question of if but of when. Prince, an Adult Nurse Practitioner (APRN), retired from University Gastroenterology on Oct. 15. …
John Dodson: Assistant chief is ‘support staff’
Like it or not, many students pretty much blow off high school health class. Not John Dodson. In the mid-1980s he was a junior at Bearden High School when an …
Betty Spurling left fingerprints all over town
Betty J. Gibbs Spurling, 81, of Knoxville, succumbed on Christmas evening to respiratory distress due to COVID-19 in the home she built with her husband, Bob, who was by her …
Time to look at Christmas memories
So, you made it through Christmas 2020! I know very few who had a stress-free holiday. I know even fewer who didn’t celebrate differently this year.
Different isn’t always bad or …
Rural Metro gets response kits
A west Knox County Boy Scout turned his Eagle Scout project into a $5,000+ gift to Rural Metro Fire. Tyler Perry, 15, was featured on Rural Metro’s Facebook page donating …
Services Monday for school principal
Kenneth M. Dunlap, 56, a popular administrator who served at various Knox County high schools, currently at Hardin Valley Academy, died Dec. 17, 2020, after suffering a massive heart attack …