Category: Featured Story

MUSIC, FILM, & BOOKS | Remember Dolly with a free screening of the 2015 movie about her East Tennessee childhood this weekend.

LOCAL NEWS | From duty-free exclusive to national release — Jack Daniel's American Single Malt hits store shelves nationwide for the first time as a new Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) whiskey category takes hold for the first time in over 50 years.

LOCAL SPORTS | Freshman QB? No problem. The Raiders' Austin Scherff went 10-for-14 behind a solid offensive line and outstanding rushing by senior running back Tucker Smith to notch their first win of the 2026 season.

REGIONAL NEWS | Father's Day weekend on The Farm will be quiet in 2027, as Bonnaroo announced on Friday that they'll skip next year's event.

PUBLIC MEETINGS | Despite vocal opposition to Phase 2 at The Retreat at Whiskey Creek from public officials and surrounding neighbors, BZA member Peggy Blackburn made the motion to approve the special exception — but no other board member seconded it, and the motion died.

PUBLIC MEETINGS | Developer Chip Hayes will appear before the BZA Tuesday afternoon to discuss a Phase 2 at The Retreat at Whiskey Creek. A neighbor listed a laundry list of unmet promises at last night’s Metro Council meeting.

PUBLIC MEETINGS | Tax increases get bad PR, but a .25 sales tax increase may make sense when it comes to keeping local property tax rates in check.

HUMANS OF LYNCHBURG | Meet Phyllis Brock. She’s the instructor of The Lynchburg’s Pool’s popular Wet Hens water aerobics class and stubbornly believes that age is only a number, not an activity.

PUBLIC MEETINGS | On Monday, the Moore County Board of Education voted unanimously to give an epoxy upgrade to the the LES bathrooms for some of our littlest students.

LOCAL NEWS | A prolific local author, Sheila Robertson, just released a new biography, "If... not for Grace," chronicling the life of woman recovering from a violent crime.