by Amanda West | Oct 12, 2024 | Feature
AFTER PREVIOUSLY giving birth to her two sons, Kohen and Hollis, paired with a background in obstetrics, Abby Reed had few concerns about the upcoming delivery of her third son, Whitt. But on June 26, 2023, as her husband, Trevor, dialed 911, the Reed family had no...
by Amanda West | Oct 12, 2024 | Feature
FIRE CHIEF Matt Doak has been a firefighter either in Bedford County or for the city of Shelbyville for 31 years. He diligently worked his way through the chain of command, beginning his career as a volunteer for Bedford County before becoming an instructor for the...
by Amanda West | Sep 13, 2024 | Feature
THE TENDER sweet corn grazed young Edgar Kane’s hip as he pressed his tennis shoe into the imprint his grandfather’s boot had left in the soil. When the older man fed the cows, slopped the hogs, weeded his garden, or chased the chickens from the porch, young Edgar...
by Amanda West | Aug 13, 2024 | Feature
ROB MCGILL dreamed of being a pilot. He even majored in aerospace at Middle Tennessee State University. After graduation, jobs in the airline industry were scarce, so McGill, who had been working in the pro shop at Old Fort Golf Course while taking classes, took a...
by Amanda West | Aug 13, 2024 | Feature
HAL SKELTON drove over the railroad tracks for the first time in 1966 and scanned the thin row of buildings. As a recent college graduate, he’d accepted the position sight unseen. Could this be where he would teach seventh and eighth grade math and was supposed to...
by Tina Neeley | Jul 18, 2024 | Feature
THE CONFERENCE room filled with nervous energy as everyone waited for the resolution of a snag from the final walkthrough. Many other challenges on the road to closing left everyone unsure this day would come. Closing documents and conversation shuttled back and forth...
