by Tina Neeley | Mar 11, 2023 | Stories
Sometimes life just isn’t what it seems. There are situations where we view each other through the fishbowl of life. We watch from outside, sure of what we’re seeing. Meanwhile, inside, life is its own reality, and the days pass with the feeling of someone else...
by Tina Neeley | Mar 11, 2023 | Feature
DID YOU feel like an outsider at some point in high school? Do you remember the invisible boundaries between you and those in sports or clubs? Were your grades or wardrobe always short of measuring up? Did high school make you feel more alone than connected? Visit...
by Tina Neeley | Mar 11, 2023 | Cover
FAR FROM home while deployed to Iraq, Dr. Lucas Bowling received a call that changed the trajectory of his life. Not the kind you answer with your cell phone, but a call that doesn’t use Verizon’s nationwide network. It was there that Bowling felt and answered the...
by Tina Neeley | Mar 11, 2023 | Feature
LYNNA MILLER’S students are a part of her life forever, each becoming one of her kiddos. But some put the “special” in education — a field Miller has been actively involved in for more than 30 years. An early classwork finisher in grade school, Miller was allowed to...
by Tina Neeley | Mar 11, 2023 | Feature
IT’S BECOME a Bedford County tradition — graduating seniors returning to their elementary schools to walk the halls of their childhood memories. When the last days of high school are marked off the calendar and seniors return to East Side Elementary School this...