by Wesley Bryant | Jun 12, 2025 | Stories
A FAMILY LOADS up their navy blue Jeep in Tennessee and takes a cross-country road trip. It’ll take several days to get to the Sequoia National Park in California. There may be hours when the Jeep feels smaller and smaller by the second. Taking turns picking the music...
by Gabriel Huff | Jun 12, 2025 | Stories
LEBRON HAGGARD’S dream formed within the confines of his Manchester garage. Inside, he and his friends milled malt, combined the grain with hot water, boiled its contents, initiated fermentation, and then conditioned the liquid. In the end, they possessed beer ready...
by Gabriel Huff | Jun 12, 2025 | Stories
WHEN PEOPLE walk into Dawn Selvage’s clinic, they do not feel reduced to a number that pays the bill. Instead, they enter a home, where patients are treated like family. In Selvage’s eyes, that’s what makes her clinic different. The Manchester Care Clinic lies in the...
by Guest Writer | Jun 12, 2025 | Stories
LEMONADE DAY teaches young people to be entrepreneurs by guiding them through the process of launching and managing their own businesses. Manchester was an early adopter, even weaving the program into the local school curriculum. This year, on Thursday, May 15, 2025,...
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 Jeriah Brumfield | May 8, 2025 | Stories
EACH SUMMER, Manchester shakes off its small-town quiet and bursts to life as Bonnaroo rolls in, transforming our backyard into a bright, colorful world all its own. The thick summer air comes alive, and the roads we know all too well — usually lined with local diners...
