
Election 2026: School Board District 6
Political newcomers Cadence Collins and Lee Ann Eaves offer Northwest Knox County voters a clear choice in this year’s election.
New at Compass
- July 16, 2026Republican Barry Beeler is vying with Democrat William Cooper to represent a district that has historically been heavily red.
- July 15, 2026Three days before early voting begins, Knox County mayoral hopefuls Beau Hawk and Betsy Henderson took questions from residents at a forum in West Hills.
- July 14, 2026In a race flavored by cultural issues, Democrat Brandon Huckaby is running against Republican Sheri Super to represent the county’s most divided district.
- July 13, 2026A Democratic political newcomer and a Republican school-board member are vying to become Knox County’s next mayor.
- July 13, 2026Every Monday we run down the week’s public meetings and civic events.
- July 13, 2026A weekly mystery photo to test your knowledge of the local landscape.
- July 10, 2026A developer failed a second time to get Planning Commission approval for its planned apartment complex on the South Waterfront but can try again.
- July 9, 2026Both political newcomer Stephen Hood and current Register of Deeds Nick McBride pledge to restore integrity to the scandal-prone Trustee’s Office.
- July 8, 2026KCDC will begin the planning process for redeveloping the Neyland Drive corridor from Maplehurst and the Henley Bridge to Third Creek.
- July 7, 2026School board members complained they got no advance notice that revenues would be withheld, and that elected officials would get pay raises amid job and pay cuts.
Recent Highlights
All free to read and share.- Superintendent Jon Rysewyk says banning the book 'weighed heavily on me.' But the law that led to the removal remains.
- Authorities allege that Assistant Chief Deputy David Amburn, former Sheriff Jimmy ‘J.J.’ Jones and others used drug-unit funds for personal gain.
- Rachel Milford and Cattywampus Puppet Council transform public spaces into theaters of joy, visibility and collective imagination.
- Henderson is elected the GOP nominee for county mayor in a Republican primary that featured close contests, fallen incumbents and unforeseen twists.
- County commissioners are taking up immigration issues as outrage grows over federal agents’ killing of a man in Minnesota.













