Primary 2026: School Board District 9
Kristi Kristy is running for a third term against political newcomer Bill Sofield to represent South Knox County on the Board of Education.
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April 15, 2026Four law-enforcement veterans are squaring off in the race for Knox County Sheriff, which will be decided in the Republican primary.
April 14, 2026In the county’s only contested Democratic primary, a first-term incumbent faces a pair of challengers for a seat representing the school system’s most diverse district.
April 13, 2026Every Monday we run down the week’s public meetings and civic events.
April 13, 2026A weekly mystery photo to test your knowledge of the local landscape.
April 10, 2026Discovering wonders with nature’s caretakers in the Greenbrier area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
April 9, 2026At a forum in the Old City, entrepreneurs question county-mayor candidates on a host of business and economic-development topics.
April 8, 2026Three Republicans — two of them party insiders — are running to represent reliably red North Knox County.
April 7, 2026Larsen Jay, Betsy Henderson and Kim Frazier are vying for the Republican nomination to succeed Mayor Glenn Jacobs. Democrat Beau Hawk is waiting in the wings.
April 6, 2026Every Monday we run down the week's public meetings and civic events.- April 6, 2026A weekly mystery photo to test your knowledge of the local landscape.
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All free to read and share.- County commissioners are taking up immigration issues as outrage grows over federal agents’ killing of a man in Minnesota.
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- Lou Gauci, chair of the KMA board, has curated a career of disciplined design and designed a life of contemplative creativity.
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- Single-issue advocacy committees have formed on both sides of the city’s referendum question on raising the local-option sales tax.