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...
by Tina Neeley | Feb 11, 2023 | Feature
MIDDLE TENNESSEE families are benefiting for the 10th consecutive year from an initiative of the Tennessee Cattleman’s Association (TCA) with Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee. Farm Credit Mid-America (FCMA), a partner since the program’s inception, found...
by Tina Neeley | Feb 11, 2023 | Feature
WATCHING YOUR baby grow, develop, and toddle is something you never forget. You soak in as much as time allows, even though it is a naturally stressful time. Milestones come and go, and growth progresses as expected — until it doesn’t. It was reasonable to expect he...
by Tina Neeley | Feb 11, 2023 | Feature
SOME GENERATIONS grew up racing to answer the phone, but not everyone’s phone would ring a solid, uninterrupted ring until you lifted the receiver. That call sounded the alarm to volunteer firefighters, and Amanda O’Brien and her brother would race to answer it. They...
by Tina Neeley | Feb 11, 2023 | Feature
MARGARET BRITTON Vaughn, known to most people as “Maggi,” tracked the grit on the avenue from the ruts of the road. Many of the songs she hummed have been sung by names and faces we know and recognize today. Vaughn knew early that her writer’s voice was shaped by and...
by Tina Neeley | Jan 13, 2023 | Feature
TO SAY “the sky’s the limit” is to aim low in the world of Shelbyville native Billy Hix. While the concept of the internet did not exist when Hix was a fifth grader, he’d have had no problem believing he would one day be found on it by searching “Billy Hix NASA.” Two...
