Jacobs Ends Mask Mandate

Officials have given no explanation for the change in authority that bypassed Dr. Martha Buchanan, the county’s public health officer.

Multiple Traumas

While planning for emergence from the pandemic, the school board confronts the aftermath of another student’s violent death.

Knox County’s health officer says she will extend public health orders when full pandemic response decisions fall to her.

The school board tries to look toward the fall, but gets mired in lingering pandemic politics.

Another bill to disempower local health boards advances in the Legislature. This one would ban “vaccine passports.”

Pledging to protect the community, Buchanan expresses dismay at the divisions over the pandemic response following the Board of Health’s demise.

Mask mandate, other regulations up in the air as public health authority shifts back to the county health director.

A late addition to the agenda means the final vote on removing the body’s authority will come next week.

The Board of Health eases restrictions on event venues, extends bar operating hours and lets the limit on gathering sizes expire.

Owners of event spaces throughout Knox County have had to get creative to survive the pandemic.