By: Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor While Covid slammed the doors of many businesses, others were born and flourished. Necessity is definitely the mother of invention, and nothing is more true than of the birth of Garland Farms. Cave City hairdresser Bridget Garland’s business was shut down for months during Covid, however the bills did not cease. Bridget Garland, had always loved making homemade gifts like sugar scrubs, but really loved wax melts.…
By: Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor Old Man Winter’s icy breath exhaled hard on Spring River Country Tues. Jan. 24, dropping as much as 10 inches of very wet snow on the area. The snow began falling much earlier than predicted and by 6p.m., most of the area had al-ready witnessed huge cottonlike snowflakes coming down in mass. Within two hours roads became treacherous despite the above freezing temperatures. By around 11 that…
Conflicting stories, cell phone records and evidence of a murder for hire scheme were the motives investigators discovered that led to two arrests in the case of former Fulton County Sheriff’s Department employee Kristy Taylor. After an extensive six months of investigation, Taylor’s husband, from whom she had just separated a few weeks early, was always the prime suspect of the investigation. But, it wasn’t until Jan. 23,that police were finally able…
By: Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor The community, including students from surrounding districts as well as businesses have all stepped up their game to help one of their own. While they all may wear different color jerseys on the field and court, one thing remains the same, they have all brought out the orange in honor of 18-yearold Jacob Moore. Moore is a senior from Cave City who captains the football, basketball and…
EDITOR’S NOTE: During the Nov. 8 General Election, voters who reside in the Highland School District voted by a 2/3 majority to overturn a 8.9 mill increase to build a new high school. On Dec. 1,a special meeting was called by the board and during that meeting a motion was made by Renee Clay-Circle and seconded by David Gibson to approve to submit an “Application for a Permit to Issue Bonds”, with…
