by Ray Hill | Apr 21, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill The race for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in Tennessee in 1924 came down to three men: the incumbent senator, John Knight Shields, General Lawrence D. Tyson and former state Supreme Court justice Nathan L. Bachman. All three were...
by Mike Steely | Apr 15, 2019 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely If you’d like to take the family on a day trip to see views of the Smoky Mountains you haven’t seen before you should consider driving the extension of the Foothills Parkway that opened last fall. Plan to take your time as the speed limit is 35 miles...
by design | Apr 15, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’ve said my stories find me, but nothing found me this week; at least nothing around which to construct an essay. So, as I sit on my porch late Wednesday afternoon, I decided to write about what I see from my porch and my observations of the week....
by Joe Rector | Apr 15, 2019 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Going out in public is good for me. My wife has told me for years. She implores me to venture out past the boundaries of Ball Camp to see what’s on the other side of life. I do so on occasion, but after those trips, I wind up wondering what I was doing...
by Ralphine Major | Apr 15, 2019 | Columnist, Major
Becky Turner Calfee By Ralphine Major My brother and I were looking for somewhere special in the community to film a television interview. Channel 10 in Knoxville had called Jan-Carol Publishing to schedule an interview with us when our first children’s book was...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Apr 15, 2019 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan Police work is often glamorized and over-dramatized in tv shows and movies. The police are often in car chases, conducting these really intense interrogations, or using big white boards to connect the dots of how a crime syndicate works. While...
