Policing the mean streets of Memphis for six years is not a job for the fainthearted. Neither is facing a roomful of your own party’s supporters and espousing a less-than-popular …
Marion Bloomer was local leader
Services will be held Saturday, Feb. 15, for Marion Anne Robbins Bloomer, a Central High School grad who made lasting contributions to Knoxville and beyond. The family will receive friends …
Concord inventor boosts WWII war effort
“Necessity is the mother of invention” is an often-used trite expression. However, the irony for Jesse Mack Benson (1881-1958), lies in the fact that he invented a swing stage scaffold …
Exhibit features 12 regional artists
Two days remain for Knoxvillians to see The Figurative Impulse, an art exhibit that focuses on the human figure and celebrates that which makes us human.
The Figurative Impulse is showing …
Sybil Joffe: One of a kind
One of Knoxville’s most colorful characters has died.
Sybil L. Joffe, 95, passed away Sunday, January 26, 2020. This paragraph from her obituary says it all: Sybil was raised on a …
Services Friday for Jo Ann Parker
A funeral mass will be celebrated at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 414 W. Vine Ave., at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 31, for Jo Ann Moffatt Parker, who died Jan. 23. …
Navel gazing 101: The ‘how’ of news gathering
Readers may think reporters/columnists just pop off about people or issues without regard to fairness or consequences.
Let’s look behind the scenes at recent work in KnoxTNToday.com.
Mike McMillan’s cattle: Larry Van …
Bailey, Levenson snag top awards
When awards were given at the annual meeting of the Knoxville Area Association of Realtors, Justin Bailey of Bailey & Co. Real Estate was named managing broker of the year.
His …