by Amanda West | Feb 17, 2024 | Stories
SINGER-SONGWRITER AND multi-instrumentalist Donna Frost is busily promoting her 10th CD and wholeheartedly promoting the Humane Society of Sumner County (HSSC). Although Frost adores all animals, a Siberian Husky named Samson, with one blue eye and one brown eye,...
by Amanda West | Jan 20, 2024 | Feature
THE OWNERS of 393 Café, Tanya McPherson and her mother, Nadine Simons, wholeheartedly believe, “Good food is all the sweeter when it’s shared with good friends.” For 25 years McPherson watched her father and stepmother run a successful restaurant in Wisconsin, 25...
by Amanda West | Dec 23, 2023 | Feature
NEENA SMITH felt hopeless. After losing both of her fallopian tubes following two tubal pregnancies, Smith thought she and her husband, Jonathon, would never birth a child of their own. Neena worked as a nurse at TriStar Skyline Medical Center, and her insurance...
by Amanda West | Dec 23, 2023 | Stories
OLD-FASHIONED PIG racing, toe-tapping performances by local and worldwide entertainers, competitive cornhole tournaments, and college football, all marinated together with the top barbecue cooks in the nation, equals one big event: Pig Fest. With over 3,000 in...
by Amanda West | Nov 20, 2023 | Feature
LYNDA EVJEN and a group of local business owners came together in 2007 with an idea to incorporate a Gingerbread competition into the annual Sumner County (SC) Christmas Parade. From those humble beginnings emerged the much-loved annual HolidayFest, which has now...
