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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

The Public Library: A haven for book lovers!

July 12, 2024 tim@sokyhappenings.com Comments Off

Public libraries all across America have supplied readers with books since the early 1800s. While fee-based subscription libraries existed before then, the first tax-supported library providing services at no cost to borrowers was established in […]

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 [...]

Family Enrichment Center empowers families to prevent child abuse

March 2, 2020 Comments Off on Family Enrichment Center empowers families to prevent child abuse

My, how time flies when you are helping families! In 1979, a small group of women wanted to do something to address keeping children safe in Bowling Green and surrounding counties. In an effort to [...]
Glasgow boutique celebrates reopening in historic downtown building – Off The Square Mercantile

September 4, 2023 Comments Off on Glasgow boutique celebrates reopening in historic downtown building – Off The Square Mercantile

Off The Square opened in the fall of 2020, selling carefully curated gifts in a small space off the downtown square in Glasgow. In 2021, owners Julie Goodman Dickinson and Lisa Spear Richardson made the decision [...]
Lions Club: A brighter vision for Bowling Green

February 1, 2023 Comments Off on Lions Club: A brighter vision for Bowling Green

The Lions Club is the world’s largest service club organization. With over 1.4 million members and 47,000 clubs worldwide, Lions work to improve communities and make a difference in the lives of young and old [...]
Attention crafters: HEALTHCARE WORKERS need your HELP!

April 13, 2020 Comments Off on Attention crafters: HEALTHCARE WORKERS need your HELP!

Masks are in short supply across the country. You can help the effort to protect healthcare workers by joining the effort to make masks. Homemade masks are divided into three main categories: Simple Cloth Masks, [...]