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HELLO, HONEY — Hannah Tucker (center) and Jamie Zimmerman, both with Bee Haven Apiaries, visited with a resident at The Arbors and gave her a sample of their honey during a special event Friday afternoon at the facility. Ms. Zimmerman is also a speech pathologist with Adoration Home Health, which serves patients there. The day…

CLASS ACT — Landon McAdams (front, center), playing the part of popular kid Troy Bolton, takes the lead as he sings a number from the Masquerade Theatre production of Disney’s “High School Musical One-Act Edition,” which opens Friday night for a two-weekend run at the historic Capitol Theatre in downtown Union City. He is surrounded…

CAR CARE — Bob Nichols of Union City polished his 1928 Ford Model A Coupe prior to the first Jeff Davis Memorial Car Show early Saturday in front of Discovery Park of America. Ford designed the Model A to replace the Model T, and it was first produced Oct. 20, 1927. Production ended in March…

A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE — Samburg Police Chief Chris Cummings, who is retired from the U.S. Army, choked up Saturday during Samburg’s Memorial Day event as he spoke about Memorial Day, the number of lives lost during war and the many current and former military personnel being lost to suicide on a daily basis. He…

SHARING WISDOM — Adult Obion County Leadership class president Kendrick Hardin (left) spoke with Union City businessman Bill Latimer following the class graduation ceremony held Thursday at Poplar Meadows Country Club near Union City. Latimer was the guest speaker for the event.

JOCKEYING FOR POSITION — The Union City Fire Department’s Lt. David Stone (foreground left) of Martin and firefighter Wade Adams of Cayce, Ky., tried to get around the buoy in The Whaley II during the annual Cardboard Regatta races Saturday at Discovery Park of America before two Martin teams — Team Ferrell (background left) and…

ANOTHER BATCH — Samburg-Reelfoot Volunteer Fire Department firefighter Andy Crews of Samburg dropped more catfish into a fryer Saturday during the department’s annual fish fry. Helping to prepare the fish for frying were Hayden McKee (background, left), 15-year-old son of Michael and Kayla McKee of Troy, and Aiden Jackson, 15-year-old son of Candace and Chuck…

GOING BIGGER — Union City High School graduate Toney Little of Paducah, Ky., once practiced as a street artist on scrap doors and other things he could find. Now, he is getting paid with funds raised during the Run the Rails event to paint a mural in downtown Union City. It is his largest mural…

STORE COMING — Construction was rolling right along Friday morning on the new Dollar General Plus store being constructed on Palestine Avenue (Highway 183) in Obion. Site work started back in February, at which time the town posted on its Facebook page expressing appreciation to John Board of Board Farms, Obion County Mayor Steve Carr…

SUN CATCHERS — Champ Gray of Union City recently took a break to read a book and recharge his phone at the Obion County Public Library. Library visitors can now charge their phones using the rays of the sun as power when they utilize one of five solar-powered umbrellas purchased using a $14,505 Training Opportunity…