by Haley Potter | Dec 23, 2023 | Feature
AMID LIFE’S ordinary routines, a sudden cancer diagnosis can turn everything upside down. For The Bachman family, this reality hit hard when their 9-year-old son, Liam, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of bone cancer. “He turned 9, and...
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 Belle Butler | Nov 20, 2023 | Feature
IN THE diverse world of music, some folks casually enjoy tunes, and then there are individuals like Isaias Vargas, whose connection with music transcends the ordinary. From the cumbia rhythm to the guitar solos of Guns N’ Roses, Vargas has an insatiable appetite for...
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...
by Richard Klin | Nov 20, 2023 | Feature
LORI BOWLING is a diligent business owner who not only runs a real estate company but also operates a transportation business that involves a limo and party bus. She’s not the sort of person to be stopped by an illness, so during the COVID pandemic, she didn’t let the...
by Belle Butler | Nov 20, 2023 | Feature
IF YOU look at Zachary Durbin’s life today as a husband, father, and owner of a successful digital marketing firm, you don’t see the long journey that got him there or the kid who struggled with ADHD and was from a family with minimal means. Durbin grew up in...
