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[ July 31, 2020 ] It’s time to grow up and think of others… wear your damn mask! SOKY Events
[ April 9, 2020 ] Good news from bad times and thanks to the good guys! SOKY Events
[ June 4, 2025 ] Essential areas of financial planning for business owners from Ben Smith Investments Community
[ June 4, 2025 ] Worship that’s worth it Community
[ June 4, 2025 ] A parents’ summer survival guide Community
[ June 4, 2025 ] Come visit The Garden Patch in our new location – our farm! Community
[ June 4, 2025 ] Home energy conservation tips from Realtor Perry Thessen Community

It’s time for Concerts in the Park

June 2, 2023 tim@sokyhappenings.com Comments Off

The Downtown Redevelopment Authority’s Concerts in the Park is proud to welcome Flora Templeton Stuart as our title sponsor for the 2023-24 summer music series from historic Circus Square Park. With additional support from Tyson Foods […]

Essential areas of financial planning for business owners from Ben Smith Investments

June 4, 2025 0

Owning your own business provides you with many great opportunities, but it also comes with its own unique set of circumstances. Growing up with a father and grandparents who owned businesses, I saw firsthand the [...]
Worship that’s worth it

June 4, 2025 0

If you think “worship” is that time in the church service where you sing some songs, you’d be right, but it’s so much more. Online, worship as a noun is explained as “the feeling or [...]
A parents’ summer survival guide

June 4, 2025 0

HELLO SUMMER! We did it, moms and dads… we made it through another school year, and now it’s time to throw caution to the wind and embrace the chaotic season that is summer. Constant towing [...]
Come visit The Garden Patch in our new location – our farm!

June 4, 2025 0

The Garden Patch has made a change in our ongoing story! After many years in our great ole house in downtown Smiths Grove, we have moved back to our farm. Our roots are dug in [...]

Time to give thanks

November 4, 2021 Comments Off on Time to give thanks

We have a woman to thank for Thanksgiving. Sarah Josepha Hale, a prominent magazine editor, persuaded President Abraham Lincoln to declare a national holiday. Hale wrote him, “It (Thanksgiving) now needs national recognition and authoritative [...]
Portland, TN celebrates 83rd Annual Middle Tennessee Strawberry Festival “Boots & Berries”

April 30, 2024 Comments Off on Portland, TN celebrates 83rd Annual Middle Tennessee Strawberry Festival “Boots & Berries”

The Portland Chamber of Commerce is organizing the 83rd Annual Middle Tennessee Strawberry Festival. Make plans to celebrate the history of the Strawberry Festival on May 10-11, 2024. Events are also scheduled throughout the week. [...]
Stations of the Cross as a Lenten practice

March 4, 2023 Comments Off on Stations of the Cross as a Lenten practice

Arguably, one of the greatest and holiest days for those in the Christian faith is Easter. In sacramental traditions, the longer name for this holy day is the Feast of the Resurrection of Our Lord. [...]
eight16… a great “staycation” location

December 31, 2020 Comments Off on eight16… a great “staycation” location

“Staycation” became a buzzword a few years ago for not taking a traveling vacation and just trying to relax at home. In recent years it has, at least to me, become a term for staying [...]