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Redefining the custom home building experience with openness, precision, and a team-driven philosophy.  Story by Nathan Sparks | Photography by Nathan Sparks & Bruce McCamish In 2005, after a high-flying career in…
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World War II veteran Bob Luttrell reflects on nearly drowning in the Pacific and the work of art his life became Bob Luttrell didn’t want to let his mom down. Only minutes after breakfast aboard his patrol gunboat in the Pacific Theater…
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From Andes Summits to Bolivia’s Most Dangerous Ride None of us were prepared for 11 degree temperatures in the middle of June. Then again some of my team wasn't ready to be at almost 20,000 feet either. But here four of us found…
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A shaky rollout, growing opposition, and a high‑stakes November vote put Knoxville’s proposed sales tax hike on uncertain ground Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon’s sales tax referendum effort’s unfocused slog out of the gate in its early…
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I went to lunch this past week with a person I've known for more than 40 years. A successful man, who leads a multiple-staff wealth management office, he, like myself, began of his life without technology being a constant. And artificial…
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Tellico Plains artist finds her inspiration in the mountains L ynda Best lives in paradise, and it shows in the paintings she creates. A lifelong artist (“By the time I was 12 I was giving art lessons to other kids and getting paid…
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When football glory meets small-town camaraderie, the stories are as good as the game Although I am still catching on to writing a column every two months for the viewing pleasure of both of my regular readers, I do like to indulge…
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An evening at Matt Gallaher’s Market Square rifugio lets the cuisine shine. There are restaurants that announce themselves with fanfare—brash décor, inflated adjectives, a signature cocktail named after someone’s grandmother. Then there…
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Shayla McDaniel’s journey to music was built on curiosity, faith, and the power of figuring it out "I grew up in the church, so that was my first exposure to music, specifically live music,” Shayla McDaniel says. Drawn to sound from a…
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When I was a young boy, my grandfather Charles Garland Sparks shared with me the story of the 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. Listeners who tuned in late believed the alien invasion was real, leading to widespread panic. My…
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