by Becca Roberts | Sep 10, 2026 | Fayetteville, Feature
Garrett Taylor has been operating heavy equipment since before most kids were riding bikes. Growing up in a logging family in Fayetteville, he was driving skidders and dragging logs at just 8 years old. He was also mowing his own lawn, and a few others nearby. When...
by Becca Roberts | Sep 10, 2026 | Fayetteville, Feature
In his freshman year of high school, Officer Bailey Cowan resisted the idea of going into law enforcement, but his mother convinced him to take just one criminal justice class to try it out. He finally gave in and registered for the class during his sophomore year,...
by Kali Bradford | Aug 13, 2026 | Fayetteville, Feature
For three decades, summer evenings in Lincoln County have carried the sound of a ball cracking off a bat, dugouts erupting in cheers, and one familiar voice echoing down the third-base line: “Pick me up early!” What started as Lincoln County resident Greg Wiser...
by Kali Bradford | Aug 13, 2026 | Fayetteville, Feature
Success on the basketball court is often measured in wins and losses. But at Riverside Christian Academy, Coach Robbie France says the greatest victories aren’t always found on the scoreboard — they’re found in the faith, character, and confidence young athletes...
by Teresa James | Jul 9, 2026 | Fayetteville, Feature
FOR 50 years, war veteran Joe Pendergrass did not speak of his time in Vietnam. The horrors of war were too difficult to dwell on. Most people didn’t want to hear about it anyway. Vietnam was perceived as a different kind of war back then. Pendergrass enlisted in the...
by Teresa James | Jul 9, 2026 | Fayetteville, Feature
AN ALARMING 2023 report by the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) listed Tennessee’s Veteran suicide rate as being significantly higher than both the national Veteran suicide rate and the national general population suicide rate. Veteran Stuart Rudy is doing...
