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Raising awareness about autism
By Mhari Shaw Bedtime routines commence around 7:30 p.m. at the Millet household. Allison, husband Rodgie and son Ross participate in 10-year-old Owens nightly routine. For children with autism, routine holds an important meaning in daily life. Owen was diagnosed with...
High school for refugees and immigrants ends first year
By Tyger Williams Outside the corner of Warren Central High School is the round annex building; inside are the many international and refugee students of Geo International High School. There are 200 students from countries such as Iraq, Burma, Ethiopia, El Salvador,...
Love you forever: a mother survives after daughter’s suicide
By Srijita Chattopadhyay It was a typical winter evening at the Hack household. Melanie Hack had just picked up her oldest daughter Reagan Harley Carter, 12, from a school basketball game. It was nearly half-past eight in the evening and Melanie was in the kitchen...
Family Scholar Houses change single parents’ lives
By Erian Bradley A 21-year-old college student is sitting on her couch in her apartment reading her accounting textbook Arianna Smith and her son are celebrating a birthday together at the scholar house event. while studying for a test she has soon. Her...
For undocumented immigrant, traffic stop could be much more
By Nicholas Wagner It was a typical Friday morning on April 7 for Diana Lopez, just another day driving her son, Donovan, to school in Nashville traffic. Lopez conversed with her son about his upcoming tests, while her short stature perked up to see over the hood of...
In Mostly Latino Neighborhood, Fears of Deportation Linger
By Nicholas Wagner A Bowling Green Police Department squad car crosses the tracks into a neighborhood known as Little Mexico on Saturday, May 6, 2016, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Across the tracks in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Mexican nationals are celebrating Cinco de...
Life of mother and pub owner changed by drunk driving
By Michelle Hanks Johnetta Pryor, 56, said it was a normal Friday evening for her at her bar, Johnetta’s Pub on Scottsville Road in Bowling Green, while she was waiting for her son. Jeremy Pryor, Johnetta’s son, was supposed to be on his way to DJ at the pub after he...
Bowling Green residents react to confederate statue removal
By Abby Potter As passerbys hustled about their days, Walter Wilkerson, 77, sat with his thoughts in the crisp September air. Wilkerson, of Adolphus, who boasted of long southern lineage, said he believed the removal of Confederate monuments was unacceptable. “Leave...
Jimmy with Asperger’s: The Early Years
By James Humphrey It was a typical preschool classroom in Hendersonville, Tennessee, on a hot August day in 1997. Four-year-old kids were playing with toys and socializing with one another as they waited for someone to pick them up. There was one boy who didn’t have...
Traveling through a failing memory
By Emily DeLetter “I’ve been to Java, Batra, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Lombok, Sumba, Sumbawa, Flores, Timor, enzoorvort…” I’m fiddling with my napkin. I watch my sister and mom make eye contact. At the end of the table, the Cracker Barrel waitress smiles and...