by Tina Neeley | Mar 27, 2025 | Stories
THE FLINTVILLE School library hums with the quiet energy of modern education. Today’s school libraries hold not just books but endless opportunities for wonder and exploration. Bookcases line the walls, filled with books whose spines stand at varying degrees of...
by Wesley Bryant | Mar 27, 2025 | Stories
THE SOUNDS of the self-checkout registers beep through the entire store. The short lines of people with baskets and carts move across the reflective tile like a conveyor belt and out the door. Uh, oh. A man at the checkout stood frozen. The total amount due on the...
by Sara Hook | Feb 19, 2025 | Stories
What does a flag represent? Is it the values of the group it flies over, the efforts of those who carry it, or the history written under its banner? The United States Stars and Stripes embodies all these things and more. Yet, as the nation endures, individual flags...
by Sara Hook | Feb 19, 2025 | Stories
She spent nearly five months in the hospital and some 45 days on a ventilator; she had more than a dozen surgeries and a kidney transplant — all before she turned 4. Yet Jentry Prock is a bright and happy child. As she continues to heal, her perseverance, along with...
by Wesley Bryant | Feb 19, 2025 | Stories
You know that first breath of spring? The way the warmer air gives you goosebumps — the air is soft, full of promise, carrying hints of something new. After months of cold, we step outside, and for the first time, the sun lingers a little longer, warming our hands,...
by Wesley Bryant | Jan 11, 2025 | Stories
A nurse walked down the hallway his mother walked decades before he did. Beep … beep … he could hear the sounds from patients’ rooms. He kept a small keepsake pinned to his scrubs, a pin his mother gave him when he graduated nursing school. She had once worn the same...
