How Rick Insell Helped Put Shelbyville in the Spotlight.
THE SMELL of freshly cleaned hardwood floors fills the air. The bright fluorescent lights hum above the bleachers. The cool AC fights the stuffy hot air from cheering fans. The referees and umpires...
Stem Grant Gives Teacher Amanda McBride More Tools to Inspire and Educate Students.
TEACHER AMANDA McBride was awarded a $5,000 grant from the TVA to support STEM (Science, Technology, Electronics, and Math) initiatives at Bedford Learning Academy (BCLA). She spoke to her students...
How Shelbyville Made the Small Town Square a Piece of American History
EVERY GREAT American small town has a recognizable and historic square. But not every small town across America is like Shelbyville. In fact, this particular square has made an impact on small towns...
Plan a Tennessee Whiskey Day Tour
THE SMOOTH taste of Tennessee whiskey is famous around the world. There’s nothing more American than sitting around a backyard campfire with bourbon circling in a glass. The clink of a glass,...
Discover the Surrounding Outdoor Activities in Our State.
ISN’T SUMMER a wonderful time to live in the beautiful State of Tennessee? Lucky you, living in Middle Tennessee, in Bedford County, where you have access to numerous recreational opportunities for...
How Tennessee Whiskey and Entrepreneurship Changes Lives.
100 years ago, an angry white mob in Tulsa, Oklahoma, destroyed “Black Wall Street.” It was a predominantly African American district in Tulsa. Black-owned businesses were successful and living the...
How a Family’s Hobby Greenhouse Grew Into a Family-Owned Business.
WATER, SUN, soil, and lots of love is all it takes to grow plants. It’s even better in a greenhouse, designed to foster the growth of flowers, herbs, succulents, and other green stems of life. For...
How Dr. Troy Miller Pushed Through the Unknown to Save More Lives.
Dr. Troy Miller, the director of hospital medicine at Van- derbilt Bedford Hospital, researched through evidence from hospitals in cities that were already hit by the pan- demic. He knew it was...
How Jeff Miller, a Respiratory Therapist, Found the Good Through a Pandemic.
Imagine walking into work and the first thing you have to do is develop an action plan to treat a patient who has been shot, another patient who has pneumonia from COVID-19, and another patient who...
How Darryl Blackwell Gave Hope to Cross the Finish Line During COVID Recoveries.
In patient after patient, the COVID-19 virus attacks your lungs. You may have heard that it contributes to pneumonia or COVID pneumonia. The virus causes inflammation in the lungs. With inflamed...
At Nash Family Creamery, When Life Gives You Milk, You Make Ice Cream.
For the Nash Family, the green, green grass of home is a 500-acre farm north of Shelbyville, Tennessee. Howev- er, it wasn’t always that way. The story of Nash Family Farms began over nine decades...
In the Rolling Green Hills Just Outside Shelbyville, a Drum Horse Colt Frolics in the Peaceful Pastures of Clearview Horse Farm
ACCORDING TO the nursery rhyme “Monday’s Child,” people born on a Tuesday grow up to be gracious, agreeable, refined, and polite in manner or behavior. It might apply to horses as well, or at least...
Interior Designer Tanya Coffey Not Only Imagines What Is Possible, but She Also Makes It Real.
Sometimes it comes from a photograph or from traveling and seeing what someone else has done. Sometimes it comes from out of the blue. For Tanya Coffey, taking ideas and turning them into a reality...
Recipes – Summer Salads
These delicious summertime salad offerings will add a little bit of fun to any meal. Chock full of a variety of nutritious and fun ingredients, you’ll be glad you remembered to put salad back on the...
Whether You Want to Fish, Float, or Just Enjoy the Scenery, the Duck River Is the Perfect Place to Spend Some One-On-One Time With Nature.
At 284 miles long, the Duck River is the longest river located entirely in the state of Tennessee. It is also one of the most biologically diverse rivers in North America, home to more than 50...
For Spectacular Views, Outdoor Adventures, Shopping, and Unique Dining Experiences, a Day Trip to Monteagle Is a Sure Thing.
West of the Appalachian Mountains, a beautiful expanse of elevated land known as the Cumberland Plateau rises approximately 1000 feet above the surrounding countryside. The small town of Monteagle...
A New Era of Improvements Is Underway
HAVE YOU felt the rumble of activity in Bedford County? If you’re feeling a movement under the earth below your feet, it’s not an earthquake – it’s the massive improvement that is coming to the...
2021 David T. Craig Memorial Scholarship Recipient
Congratulations to Anna Parsons on receiving the 2021 David T. Craig Memorial Scholarship. Ms. Parsons, daughter of Tim Parsons and Susan Huff, is a graduate of Shelbyville Central High and will be...
Introducing Dr. Tammy Garrett -Investing in Our County & Our Students
“ WORK HARD and be kind.” Those are words that Dr. Tammy Garrett, Bedford County’s new school superintendent lives by and instills in the students with whom she connects. Dr. Garrett sees her- self...
State Representative Pat Marsh Talks About His Hometown of Shelbyville, the Traditions That Keep This Close-Knit Community Thriving, and All the Good Things in Store.
COMMUNITIES DON’T get bet- ter by chance. It takes people with ideas, foresight, and the willingness to put in the hard work required to make positive change. And most of all, it takes people who...
Justin Bird – Why a Firefighter Will Never Leave the Bedford County Community.
“I’m not gonna lie,” Justin Bird said. “There have been plenty of nights when I’m laying in bed at night while I’m on duty at the station thinking ‘I’ve got the greatest job in the world.’” Justin...
Jarylin Bishop, an ICU Nurse, Shares Miraculous Recoveries That Are So Often Forgotten.
‘Am I completely gowned up? Do I have everything on correctly?’ Jarylin Bishop thought as she stood in front of the doorway to the patient’s room. On the other side of the door was her first...
How Cathy Purcell Shows Gratitude for the Community Through Her Hard Work.
Cathy Purcell is a certified nursing assistant, or CNA, in Shelbyville. She lives in Unionville, just a quick 17-minute drive up the road from the hospital. She lives on the same road as her mother,...
How Ricky Donovan Brightens Every Day to Make Shelbyville Feel Like Home.
If you get the pleasure of walking by Rich- ard “Ricky” Donovan in the hallway of the hospital, he will speak to you. A simple hello, at the least, can brighten anyone’s day. Ricky is an...
How Dr. Austin Mackens Led the Hospital Staff to Win a War.
“I heard a bad quote in mid-April of last year from a healthcare provider. It was not someone I knew directly,” Dr. Austin Mackens said. The bad quote he heard was “I did not sign up for this.” “My...
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