By Nicole Ziege Seated at a small table at Fantes Coffee, a quiet coffee shop on Grinstead Drive in Louisville, is Donna Pollard, now 34. Wearing a blouse covered in a pattern of small flowers, with her layered shoulder-length red hair draped over dangling hoop...
Culture and spirituality: Temple provides community for Cambodian Buddhists
By Amelia Brett Thyda Freiberger slipped off her shoes with ease beside the door before entering her family’s temple. A short line of sandals sat next to hers on the front porch. Her black hair hung down her back in a long braid. After walking into the room, she bowed...
Louisville cemetery serves as final resting place for the homeless
By Emma Collins When it rains, the dirt on Dennis Racliff’s grave starts to turn to mud and sink, creating a coffin-shaped depression on top of where the 62-year-old was buried a little over a year ago. Racliff’s grave rests in the left corner of Meadow View Cemetery,...
Employee who viewed workplace as family loses job
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...