By Emma Collins Autumn Jarvis knew she was about to be fired when she received an email from her director on March 7 asking Jarvis to meet with her in her director’s office in 15 minutes. The day itself had been normal, although the atmosphere was still just as tense...
Mosque Serves Bowling Green’s Community
By Michael Allen The prayers are melodic, almost like chanting, and the sound of them, dominated by one voice, fill the building during prayer times. The imam, a tall, slender man with bright brown eyes, and short, black hair, wearing a flat, white cap, plain, black...
Words in Ink: Owner of a Local Tattoo Shop Makes Permanent Memories
By Michael Allen There are artists who do not work with paint or canvas, who do not perform on stage or screen, and whose work will never be framed at a museum or on a collector’s shelves. Some of them work with a buzzing needle. One of those artists closed his eyes...
Parenting a parent: a daughter reflects on mother’s Alzheimer’s disease
By: Olivia Mohr Cameron Lebedinsky remembers the first time she started to become concerned about her mother’s memory. She was at her mother’s house on Pepperidge Drive in Bowling Green, Kentucky, sometime between 2007 and 2008. Her mother, Winkie Huddleston, took...
Preparation and Reflection: WKU Counselor looks Back on Career in Mental Health
By Cameron Coyle Dr. Karl Laves, 60, has worked at the Western Kentucky University Counseling and Testing Center since August of 1991, and as he moves toward completing the final stages of his career, he can fully reflect on a field that has advanced leaps and bounds...
Congolese Refugee Rebuilds a Life of Service in America
Story and photos by Hannah McCarthy with photo contribution from August Gravatte. Out of the misty haze of the early morning, a gleaming white picket fence signifies the entrance to Perdue Farms in the small town of Cromwell, Kentucky. The fence lines the half-mile...
The Sensei of Sentou Dojo
By Kenton Hornbeck Act fast, efficient and violent. Strong words coming from such an even-tempered man. These are the three ways Sensei Frank Williams wants his students act if they are confronted and physically attacked on the streets. Williams, 54, has been...
Bosnian-owned event venue brings community together
People crowd into and around La Gala, a Bosnian-owned event venue in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on March 3 for a Marija Šerifovic concert. By Olivia Mohr Screaming people crowded around a stage at La Gala for Serbian singer Marija Šerifovic’s concert held there the...
While we wait
By Sille Veilmark David Brinkley, 49, is dressed in blue. His jumper is tangent to gray, his jeans are whiter on the knees, and the rubber along the sole of his running shoes is shining white. The shoes have no marks on them yet, and they carry him back and forth to...
Never the same
Inside the community that experienced America’s first major school shooting of 2018 By Helen Gibson Darkness covered Mike Miller Park in Benton, Kentucky, on the evening of Thursday, Jan. 25, but the lights from their candles illuminated the spaces between them....
The day the music died: EKU cut marching band
By Brooke Wright Dalton Bates, a 21-year-old junior at Eastern Kentucky University, recalled the days he spent practicing with his high school marching band in Whitesburg, Kentucky. He dreamed of the day when he could experience marching on a “grander level” in...
Bowling Green residents battle nationwide drug epidemic
By Silas Walker It’s hard to escape addiction. Brittany Edwards, 28, of Bowling Green said that when you are an addict it follows you everywhere. Prescription pills and a family history of addiction were the main causes of Edwards’ battle with substance abuse. “It...