by Amanda West | Dec 13, 2024 | Cover
The parking lot of Gateway Church on Madison Street is abuzz with activity as homeschooling parents unbuckle their toddlers and strap them into their strollers while their other children grab their book bags and lunch sacks. Young mothers slide their infants into...
by Amanda West | Nov 8, 2024 | Cover
For Harris Middle School (HMS) librarian Megan Lawell, extending kindness to others is more than an incentive to focus on one week out of the year. For her, it’s a way of life worth teaching to others. “Kindness Week is a nationally recognized week that we wanted to...
by Amanda West | Oct 12, 2024 | Cover
NO MATTER WHAT time of day it is, the emergency room at Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital is constantly abuzz with activity. Since the acquisition of the hospital by Vanderbilt in 2021, the daily census reveals that the number of people seeking help at the facility has...
by Amanda West | Sep 13, 2024 | Cover
SINCE THE mid-1800s, through the Hawkins line, four generations of the Curl and Lee families have farmed the Garrison Fork River Valley in the unincorporated community of Fairfield. Don Curl and his wife, Claudia, live in Wartrace, while Whit and Rosalie Lee live near...
by Amanda West | Aug 13, 2024 | Cover
IN THE 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz,” a tornado whisked Dorothy from the hayfields of Kansas to a colorful, whimsical land where she faced many challenges and gathered new friends along her journey. Finally, she clicked the heels of her ruby red slippers together and...
by Tina Neeley | Jul 18, 2024 | Cover
HIS LONG, narrow fingers danced across the strings, no longer obsessed with the movements of the bow in his hand. Instead, the world around him disappeared into the melody, the fiddle’s mellow yet vibrant tones coloring his early life in Ashland, Kentucky. As a...
