Join the singers, dancers, musicians, signers, jugglers, ventriloquists, and other performers for the third FUN NIGHT at Farmers Family Restaurant. Friday, July 31, 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Open to ages 12 to 22. Talent Show with $50 prize. Games (interactive), food (burgers and hotdogs, pizza, chicken, chili, fries, ice cream – all you can eat) – all for $5! To register for the Talent Show call...

The session devoted toward younger players will focus on hand-eye coordination, footwork, tennis fundamentals, and games. This is a great way to create a solid athletic foundation for children and to show them just how much fun tennis can be. The session devoted toward older players will focus on footwork, conditioning, stroke mechanics, strategy, and friendly competition. Anyone considering playing...

Although still fairly new to the Dickson area, J.J. Slowinski already feels at home here, so much so that she is opening her own business, Yoga for All, in the Preston Thompson Carpet Shoppe Complex this May. She and her husband, Dan, and two boys, Jake and Pete, moved from Memphis this past October. She wasn’t sure about relocating to a smaller town, but has found that Dickson offers everything...

White Bluff’s first liquor store, White Bluff Wine & Spirits, opened a week before the Fourth of July. The store at 4255 Highway 70E. carries a wide variety of items and plans to build on that base.  Customers can add an item to the growing Want List and the store will do its best to stock the most-demanded items. The store is housed in the former Coldwell Banker Dotson realty office, which...

Abednego’s Restaurant opened July 9 in White Bluff. The father-son team of Zollie and Jeff Williams are co-owners and cooks. The eatery is open only for lunch but the prices are terrific — Meat & 2 for $4, Meat & 3 for $5, and all drinks are a buck.  Roast beef is an everyday staple and there are three or four other meats to choose from, as well as five veggies daily. Abednego’s...

There’s a new workout in town – T-Tapp. No, it’s not tap dancing. T-Tapp is the rehabilitative fitness workout created by Teresa Tapp, an exercise physiologist from Tampa, Florida. The T-Tapp workout was most recently mentioned in the June 1, 2009 issue of People magazine article about people who lost 100+ pounds and kept them off. Now this workout is available to Dickson County...

Man can live on quality bread alone Clues about our real passions and life purposes abound everywhere when we are young. I have discovered this during the second half of life almost daily by tying personal memories to current happenstance. After making friends with local bread baker David Tannen, I remembered my senior year in high school buying a cookbook entitled, “Beard On Bread”...