“I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.”
I’ve always envied skydivers. I don’t necessarily envy the 130-mile-per-hour fall from 14,000 feet. “I never understood why anyone would want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane,” my dad, a pilot for 30 years, liked to say. I can’t say that ...
If Tuesday’s antics from Wilson County Board of Education chairman Don Weathers and education consultant Wayne Qualls were any indication, a letter further delaying the release of open records regarding Wilson County director of schools candidates’ resumes should come as no surprise. ...
After a week of waiting, pursuing and generally begging on behalf of Wilson County taxpayers and voters, a request was fulfilled Tuesday by Wilson County Board of Education chairman Don Weathers to release the names of those who have applied for the director of schools position. The Lebano...
There’s nothing to get a person planning like a 5-minute reprieve from winter does. Don’t get me wrong; I love winter. When it snows. But temperatures were barely out of the 40s before I started planning my upcoming adventures in the great outdoors. And I have to ...
The drawing board at Cumberland University is full of ideas these days for the future of the college and its presence as a leader in Wilson County. There’s little doubt those plans will place the university’s current and future students in a position where they need to be to g...
Students and teachers will return from a much-needed two-week vacation Monday as spring break comes to an end in Wilson County for another year. Now the real work and the final push begin. As it stands now, students and teachers alike will have about a month’s worth of instruc...
Nearly every week when I sit down to write my column, I consider a topic and find an inspirational quote to accompany it. While it’s sometimes the 11th hour before my muse visits to drop off that topic, I knew on Tuesday what I’d be writing about this week. Billy Carr wa...
We were just going through a normal Tuesday morning at The Lebanon Democrat when news trickled in that Billy Carr had died. For the few who didn’t know him, it’s hard to sum up Billy in a few words. At one point or another, he had done just about every behind the scenes job at ...
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. gasoline consumption in the first quarter of 2012 averaged about 8.5 million barrels a day. And that was down from a peak 9.3 million barrels per day in 2007. On Friday, AAA reported a gallon of regular unleaded cost an average...
