by Tina Neeley | May 13, 2023 | Feature
SUMMER’S NOT just for outdoors! Fellowship with friends and family while experiencing our area’s best arts and entertainment, indoors and out. Don’t forget the fireworks, but there’s more than fireworks lighting up the skies; there’s an explosion of things to do and...
by Tina Neeley | May 13, 2023 | Feature
AN OLD ledger-turned-scrapbook testifies to the tenacious and adventurous spirit of a woman ahead of her time. Glued to the aged pages is a series of encouraging quotes, more roadmap than sentiment for the one that cut and pasted keepsakes from her travels. While many...
by Tina Neeley | Apr 15, 2023 | Feature
DRIVING THE gentle, rolling hills of southwest Bedford County, nature will stop you in your tracks if your spirit is open to its invitation to slow down. Nestled within these hills is the old red barn. Standing like a sentry over the family raised in her midst, she is...
by Tina Neeley | Apr 15, 2023 | Feature
WE TAKE it for granted. A hot shower or a long bath at home, endless choices for snacks and meals in the pantry and fridge, a closet filled with clothes, a warm coat — so many everyday provisions are routine and present that we can’t imagine others lacking them....
by Tina Neeley | Apr 15, 2023 | Feature
TODAY, YOU can buy a new home from the comfort of your old one. The internet has transformed how we conduct most business, but at Craig & Wheeler Realty & Auction, one thing has remained unchanged for 50 years and counting. Belinda Craig is the glue that...
by Tina Neeley | Apr 15, 2023 | Feature
THE COMMUNITY had seen very few Hispanic families in Shelbyville in 1993. The schools had no translators, and our curriculum had no English as a second language (ESL) courses. Leo Solis was a six-year-old in a new country surrounded by faces that looked different from...