Nicholas Family Restaurant: A constant in Tullahoma

Nicholas Family Restaurant: A constant in Tullahoma

GOOD NEWS IS COMING TO DINNER! We will feature a local food critic’s thoughts as they dine in Tullahoma. This month, Tabitha Buckner visited Nicholas Family Restaurant. IN A town where trends come and go, Nicholas Family Restaurant has quietly remained — and that’s...
Hope Nunley: Coffee builds community

Hope Nunley: Coffee builds community

ON THE morning of Dec. 16, 2025, in Tullahoma, chamber members trickled in with coffee cups in hand, greeting friends and introducing themselves to faces they hadn’t yet met. Some conversations were brief, others stretched across the room, but all of them shared the...
Letter From the Editor

Letter From the Editor

LOVE IS one of those things we recognize instantly, even when we struggle to explain it. We feel it before we understand it. We see it in the quiet moments that never make headlines, and in our loved ones who show up without needing to be asked. This issue is about...
Landon Shelby: A safe harbor for faith

Landon Shelby: A safe harbor for faith

WE ALL need a place to feel safe, a place where we can be ourselves. Landon Shelby recognizes that need. He and his fellow staff and church members are working to make Grace Baptist Church in Tullahoma a safe harbor for every explorer of the faith to feel welcome and...
Letter From the Editor

Letter From the Editor

A WAITING ROOM chair creaks as someone shifts their weight. A cup of water sweats onto the lobby’s tile floor. Somewhere down the hall, a name is called. Life pauses in places like this. It always has. Healing does not usually arrive in a dramatic rush. More often, it...
Marty and Jennifer Barr: Veterans beyond coping

Marty and Jennifer Barr: Veterans beyond coping

WHEN ROGER, an Iraq War veteran, celebrated at the edge of a horse show ring this summer — phone in hand, music playing, wearing a big grin — Marty and Jennifer Barr could hardly believe their eyes. Just a month earlier, he had barely made eye contact. Years of silent...