by Wesley Bryant | Aug 7, 2025 | Franklin County, Stories
THE SCENT of warm butter-covered popcorn and the huge roar of the crowd… does anything bring you back faster than a Friday night under the stadium lights? For me, it’s a flood of memories: the nervous jitters before kickoff, the eruption of cheers after a touchdown,...
by Sara Hook | Aug 7, 2025 | Franklin County, Stories
“AGE IS just a number,” the old saying goes — and the ladies of the Tennessee Stealers and Tennessee Dinos prove it weekly at basketball practice and annually in Senior Olympics competitions across Tennessee and the United States. The teams first came together in...
by Becca Roberts | Aug 7, 2025 | Franklin County, Stories
IT WAS another Friday night under the bright stadium lights for Franklin County High School varsity football player Dawson Sowers, who was in his senior year. The tension on the field was palpable, but Sowers had been under this pressure before, and he knew what he...
by Wesley Bryant | Jul 10, 2025 | Franklin County, Stories
IF YOU’VE ever seen a fighter jet cut across the sky, you know what powerful looks like. You know what freedom sounds like. That roar overhead reminds us that we live in a country where people put their lives on the line so the rest of us can live without fear. They...
by Jeriah Brumfield | Jul 10, 2025 | Franklin County, Stories
THE BIBLE felt heavier than it should have as she held it for the first time. Its wide, empty margins waited for her to fill them. Somewhere between the shelves at Barnes & Noble and her mother’s comforting smile, Hannah Bradley felt the slightest flicker of hope:...
by Jeriah Brumfield | Jul 10, 2025 | Franklin County, Stories
GRIEF OFTEN hollows out the world we once knew. When someone we love dies, we’re left holding memories that feel too weightless for the weight of our sorrow. Without something lasting to anchor those memories, the ache can feel even deeper, like their life might one...
