by Wesley Bryant | May 8, 2025 | Stories
WHEN YOU choose a locally owned business over a national chain, you’re not just spending your money, you’re planting it. And the roots of that investment reach deep. Every dollar counts, and it lifts our neighbors. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 68 cents...
by Rachael Smith | May 8, 2025 | Stories
AS THE founders of Back Bone BrewWorks, Blake Skeets and Tyler Rens are working toward opening Franklin County’s first brewery, a dream that has been years in the making. “We live in Winchester, and so far, [the brewery] is basically housed at my house,” Skeets said....
by Wesley Bryant | Apr 17, 2025 | Stories
A STUDENT IN our community today will walk the halls of Congress with a pinned American flag on their chest. A student in our community today will pray their knees still hold when their nerves get the best of them as they walk the steps to the stage to accept a...
by Jeriah Brumfield | Apr 17, 2025 | Stories
SANDY SCHULTZ sat in her first-year nursing class at Middle Tennessee State University. Heavy textbooks rested in her lap.. She stared at human anatomy diagrams, feeling disconnected, as if they belonged to someone else’s story. Her mother was a nurse, and she’d...
by Jeriah Brumfield | Apr 17, 2025 | Stories
JOSH NEAL, the principal of Winchester Christian Academy’s Upper School, remembers his eighth grade year as the moment that jumpstarted his career in education. “There were a couple of teachers along the way who inspired me to become a teacher,” he recalled. “My...
by Jeriah Brumfield | Apr 17, 2025 | Stories
IN THE tiny “classroom” of her childhood playroom, Diane Gipson was already a teacher. Barbie dolls and teddy bears sat in neat rows, listening intently as Gipson pointed to chalk scribbles on a board and assigned homework no one would complete. She didn’t know it...
