by Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney | Jan 8, 2026 | Feature, Lebanon
WHEN YOU speak with Carla Waxel, the first thing you notice is the warmth in her voice. The second is that she apologizes for it. October, she explains, is one of her “allergy months.” May is the other. Twice a year, she loses the effortless smoothness of her speech,...
by Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney | Jan 8, 2026 | Feature, Lebanon
FOR DR. RYAN Moore, healing has always been about motion — helping people move the way they’re meant to. As a chiropractor at Cumberland Chiropractic and Sports Medicine in Lebanon, he’s spent nearly a decade keeping patients on their feet, whether they’re competitive...
by Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney | Jan 8, 2026 | Lebanon, Stories
BEFORE LIFE insurance became his calling, Daniel Coe built his life around another kind of promise — faith, family, and the steady work of service. His journey back home begins far from Tennessee, on the sunwarmed hills of Israel, where he met a woman whose compassion...
by Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney | Jan 8, 2026 | Lebanon, Stories
WHEN KERRY Becht talks about her work, she doesn’t separate science from soul. For more than 30 years, she’s been using both hands and heart to help Lebanon’s “complicated cases” — people whose chronic pain, postsurgical recovery, or pelvic health issues have left...
by Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney | Dec 11, 2025 | Cover, Lebanon
WHEN JAMES Lanier picks up the phone these days, he often does so after a nap. He explains it plainly, without apology, and with a smile you can hear through the line: he enjoys his daily rest. It’s a small detail, but it captures something essential about Lanier. He...
