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I took it for granted. I believe everyone else did too. It was just water after all. Oh sure, it was cool, clear, clean, and refreshing—especially on a hot July day after you’d run all the way from the baseball field over by the Pajama Factory to the house.
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By Kesley Colbert
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7/8/25
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I was young and green, two things that often go together, which made me ripe for picking. And Vaughnell loved to pick at people, with genuine, good-hearted intent. You had to be careful around her or else she’d have you twisted up and turned around at the end of one of her tales.
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By David Johnson
banner@mckenziebanner.com | 7/8/25 |
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TENNESSEE (July 1, 2025) — As the 2025 session of the 114th General Assembly concludes, I am proud of the progress we have made on behalf of all Tennesseans. Through bipartisan cooperation, we …
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Tenn. State Representative Brock Martin (R-Huntingdon)
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7/2/25
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Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about Mary, the mother of Jesus, and what it must have been like to witness the torture and death her son endured. I put myself in her shoes and try to imagine what I would have thought and felt to see my child treated that way.
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By David Johnson
banner@mckenziebanner.com | 7/1/25 |
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It was my Father’s favorite holiday. By far! You would think it was because of his three plus years of service in the Army during World War II.
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By Kesley Colbert
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7/1/25
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This story has four beginnings. I am going to burden you with all of them because each one is germane to where we are going here….and I have a deep abiding faith in your ability to keep up.
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By Kesley Colbert
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6/24/25
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Standing in the hospital lobby, waiting for the elevator to open, I anxiously bit my lip. It seemed like I hadn’t seen my daddy in forever. But then, to a ten-year-old time crept at an agonizingly slow pace.
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By David Johnson
banner@mckenziebanner.com | 6/24/25 |
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I disappeared for a week… well, actually six days. Left town, didn’t check my email, didn’t check Facebook, didn’t watch the news, drove nine hours with two little ones and a husband in tow to put our feet in the sand and leave our worries in Tennessee. We went to Gulf Shores, AL.
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By Brittany Martin
brittany@mckenziebanner.com | 6/17/25 |
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I’m always looking for ways to enhance my storytelling.
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By Kesley Colbert
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6/17/25
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She was small for her age.
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By David Johnson
banner@mckenziebanner.com | 6/17/25 |
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Every mornin he came out of his house and boarded the school bus, his red-rimmed eyes and tear-stained cheeks betrayed how homesick he felt the farther he got away from home.
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By David Johnson
banner@mckenziebanner.com | 6/10/25 |
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I was born and raised in a small, rural town in West Tennessee. We could say “aw shucks,” “hankering,” and “bless your heart” with a definite Southern drawl way before we learned to walk.
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By Kesley Colbert
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6/10/25
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On a recent camping trip to Arkansas, a horrific windstorm buffeted our camper the night we arrived.
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By David Johnson
banner@mckenziebanner.com | 6/3/25 |
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I watched my eldest granddaughter march across the football field in front of a makeshift stage and receive her high school diploma with 610 emotions flooding through my bones. They ranged from robust pride to a tad bit of trepidation.
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By Kesley Colbert
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6/3/25
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Singing is part of my DNA. My paternal grandmother sang alto and played the piano by ear. My paternal grandfather played the fiddle and guitar and sang lead. My maternal grandfather was a fine tenor. My mother sang alto, and daddy sang bass. My sister sings alto and both my brothers sing bass.
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By David Johnson
banner@mckenziebanner.com | 5/27/25 |
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One component of President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is the construction of a golden dome. Let’s take a close look at this proposal.
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5/27/25
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Wingo Circle resident Bertha Taylor phoned The Banner to issue a complaint about the CSX train blocking both entrances to the neighborhood of Wingo Circle one day last week.
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5/20/25
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There is a proposed Bill in the US Congress known as the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’.
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5/20/25
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Squatting beside me in the shade of the plum tree in our back yard, my then ten-year-old daughter, Rebekah, watched as I scrubbed my soaked and soaped hunting dog, Susie.
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By David Johnson
banner@mckenziebanner.com | 5/20/25 |
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I try my darndest to write a graduation story every May. For a myriad of reasons. Most all of them revolve around the high school seniors who are marching into the auditorium, gym, football stadium, etc. one last time to the stick-in-your-head-forever-if-you-are-not-careful sounds of “Pomp and Circumstance.”
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By Kesley Colbert
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5/13/25
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