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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

Vacation or staycation and painting… Not a hard choice with the help of MidSouth Lumber

July 12, 2024 tim@sokyhappenings.com Comments Off

Summertime is here and that’s traditionally vacation time. This year, you might want to consider all the benefits of a Remodeling Staycation instead of an expensive vacation. First, let’s look at a vacation. OK… we […]

Beat the heat and save your wallet: Seven tips for summer savings from Ben Smith

June 5, 2023 tim@sokyhappenings.com Comments Off

As summer approaches, you’re welcomed with a vast array of options for how to spend your summer days. While the summer season is filled with joy, laughter, and sunshine it can also be a costly […]

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

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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 [...]

Plaza Theatre reopens August 14!

July 30, 2021 Comments Off on Plaza Theatre reopens August 14!

The Plaza Theatre seats were filled with laughing patrons. The tired Far Off Broadway Players were smiling from ear to ear as they walked to the edge of the stage, made their bows and waved [...]
SOKY Earth Day Festival set for April 20

March 30, 2019 Comments Off on SOKY Earth Day Festival set for April 20

On Saturday, April 20, Simpson County will host southern Kentucky’s only Earth Day Festival. The event, sponsored by the Franklin Rotary Club and the Franklin Favorite, hosts groups, organizations, and businesses joining together to [...]
LABOR Day – Ben Smith Life Compass

September 3, 2021 Comments Off on LABOR Day – Ben Smith Life Compass

Labor Day was officially declared a national holiday by Congressional action and after being signed into law by President Grover Cleveland on June 28, 1894. Stemming from poor working conditions and mistreatment of workers, the [...]
It’s a horse’s world at Rainhill

August 2, 2023 Comments Off on It’s a horse’s world at Rainhill

There is a big difference between “rescue” and “sanctuary” in the animal world. Rainhill Equine Facility is an equine sanctuary, which means when we accept a horse into our lives, it is for the life [...]