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Macon County Golf and Country Club isn’t the only place that area residents can play a round nowadays.

Thursday, February 02, 2023
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Bingo is one of the more popular activities at the Macon County Senior Citizens Center and Monday was no exception with a nearly full house. Each session, typically Mondays and Thursdays at the center, are sponsored by a local business. Monday, it was Ben Bray Real Estate & Auction Compa…

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My wife, Kathy, and I visited friends in North Carolina over the holidays.

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The Downtown Sound, a new summer concert series, is coming to historic downtown Hartsville beginning in May and running through August.

Thursday, January 26, 2023
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When Carla Jean Ferraro purchased her Trousdale County home in 2006, she was unaware that the old Beal Cemetery, which dates back to 1900, was located somewhere on her property.

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Macon County 4-H is celebrating its first national championship after the team of Delaney Turner, Graycee West, Ella Flynn and Logan West won first place at the competition in Denver, Colorado.

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If you know me, or you have followed my writing, you know a place called Brim Hollow that has made a profound influence on my life.

Tuesday, January 24, 2023
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The Macon County High School varsity cheer squad held a Disney Princesses and Superheroes pancake breakfast fundraiser Saturday at the school as team prepares for a February trip to Orlando, Florida, for the National High School Cheerleading Championship. The co-ed team of 10 girls and four …

Thursday, January 19, 2023
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Author and internationally-acclaimed speaker Matthew Keller has written a number of marvelous books.

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The 13th annual St. Jude Charity Auction proved more than lucky as the event raised a record of more than $57,000 on Saturday in the Sally Wells Building at the Macon County Fairgrounds. A standing-room only crowd turned out for the event, led by Ben Bray Real Estate and Auction Company, tha…

Thursday, January 12, 2023
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Cristina Yokley Anderson teaches high school agriculture at Red Boling Springs School. She is a lifelong resident of Macon County, other than the time she spent at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville.

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Macon County Junior High School special education teacher Karen McLerran graduated from East Tennessee State University on Dec. 10, 2022 with a doctorate in education leadership with a concentration of school leadership.

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KNOXVILLE — University of Tennessee Extension’s Department of Family and Consumer Sciences is inviting farm families and community members to participate in the Tennessee Farm Family Health and Wellness Program. The program is a Zoom-based webinar that provides farm families with the tools t…

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The Macon County High School FCCLA chapter, led by members Ashlyn Himes and Serenity Austin, collected 217 mostly personal hygiene items to donate to the Emmanuel House. The Emmanuel House is a new nonprofit transitional living facility for women and children in Macon County. There, women ca…

Thursday, January 05, 2023
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Crystal Justice receives an award from Mayor Kenneth Hollis during the Dec. 8 Red Boiling Springs City Council meeting. The award is for outstanding service in the community for Justice’s work on the BlueCross BlueShield grant for Old Lake Park. The park received a $1 million dollar grant to…

Thursday, December 29, 2022
Thursday, December 22, 2022
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My wife, Kathy, and I made our annual November trip to the Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge area to Christmas shop a few weeks ago. After over four decades of marriage, I suppose most couples settle into some kind of routine. Our mornings play out like this. She sleeps late, and I do breakfast on my own.

Thursday, December 15, 2022
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Last week, I wrote of leaving a high-school basketball game one evening as heavy snow was arriving and how that my trip home in our farm pickup truck was delayed by my unwisely deciding to grab a bite to eat at a local restaurant.