Category: Featured Story

HUMANS OF LYNCHBURG | Meet local Buford Jennings. He grew up hauling corn on a hill in Champ. Eventually retired as the civilian equivalent of a one-star general. In between, he helped invent the technology that guides the Hellfire missile.

FEATURES & INTERVIEWS | We continue our Women's History Month articles with an interview with Moore County Roads Superintendent Shannon Cauble — who is often the only woman in the room. She talks about triage budgets, Tennessee swamp land, and why she's never not working.

SOUTHERN CULTURE | Spring arrived in Southern Middle Tennessee on Friday. Here's one way the nearby University of the South at Sewanee is marking the occasion.

FEATURES & INTERVIEWS | Steve Vilot crisscrosses the country teaching the art of barbering and cutting rock star's hair. He also runs a shop right here in Lynchburg.

FEATURES & INTERVIEWS | In honor of St. Patrick's day we discovered a local gal with an uncanny ability to spot four leaf clover. Jack Daniel's Events Coordinator Diane Potts has found thousands. She's not done yet.

FEATURES & INTERVIEWS | Moore County’s Sarah Nelms comes from a long line of military men. Now a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army, she’s writing a new chapter of a family story that spans World War II to Afghanistan — and she’s just getting started.

FEATURES & INTERVIEWS | She Learned It Here, then came back to lead. Tanya Vann grew up on a century farm on the south end of Moore County, spent nearly three decades teaching and leading in its schools, retired early to care for her parents — and then ran for the School Board. Some people just can’t stop giving.

MUSIC, BOOKS, & FILM | The 98th Academy Awards will happen on Sunday, March 15 and one of the films nominated for Best Documentary, "The Alabama Solution," examines power, corruption, and who gets to tell the truth in the New South.

LOCAL NEWS | Jason Deal has decided now is not the right time. He officially withdrew from the Metro Moore County mayor's race on Friday.

FEATURES & INTERVIEWS | Lynchburg native and SCTTA CEO Ryan French recently discussed his road to becoming a local tourism guru, how metrics drive his work with Experience Tennessee, and the number of turtles he saves each year while running the roads of Southern Middle Tennessee to drive tourism dollars into our area.