Pine Creek United Baptist Church: Serving its community since the 1870s
For nearly as long as Scott County has been, Pine Creek United Baptist Church has been. And for nearly as long as Pine Creek...
Pharmacist partners keep Danny’s Drugs going
Tess Laxton and Kevin Sexton hadn’t been born when Danny’s Drugs was established in 1966; neither of them would enter the world for more...
No child left behind at Christmas
By the time the doors have closed at the Boys & Girls Club of the Cumberland Plateau late Sunday evening, nearly 1,000 children in...
A cemetery with a story to tell
There is no clearer way to understand the stories of long-ago society than the largely forgotten cemeteries in which those who defined their eras...
He cast Scott County’s only vote for Abraham Lincoln…
You might say that Shadrack Lewallen was ahead of his time by just a few years.
Or, perhaps, that he was a trend-setter.
When President Abraham...
Conversations With Pastors: Brian Strunk
As a high school student at Scott High School in the late 1990s, Brian Strunk was popularly known by his nickname: Brother Love. It...
A monumental task, accomplished
On September 11, 2018, teachers at Huntsville Elementary School held a fundraiser kick-off ceremony with an ambitious goal in mind: raising more than $275,000...
‘The small town dance studio doing big city things’
Most people who are interested in a career in the performing arts dream of taking their talents to New York City. It is, after...
Before Rugby, there was Brynyffynon
The story of Rugby’s founding is well known — English reformer and author Thomas Hughes envisioned a place in America where his fellow countrymen...
Conversations With Pastors: Kyle Keeton
The Focus On: Religion page’s “Conversations With Pastors” series continues with Kyle Keeton, pastor at Black Oak Baptist Church. Keeton was ordained to preach...
