Carrie Stambaugh, Managing Editor

Imagination + Technology = S.T.E.A.M. Lab

Imagination and technology are a powerful combination that when brought together can create unimaginably fantastic results – Russell Primary School's (RPS) new S.T.E.A.M. Lab is a vivid example of what can happen.

Imagination + Technology = S.T.E.A.M. Lab
John Gallaher, Publisher

A Note from the Publisher: Celebrating

Starting a new business is always risky. When we launched Bridges 15 years ago The Gallaher Group had been in the printing business for nearly three decades. In 2004, we recognized the need for a local magazine and as did the community itself. At the time there was not a single glossy publication that focused exclusively on the Tri-State as one community.

A Note from the Publisher: Celebrating
Carrie Stambaugh, Managing Editor

Carrie's Corner: Happy Birthday Bridges!

From the moment I knew what a writer was, I wanted to be one. Ask anyone who knew me from a young age and they will tell you I’ve always been a storyteller.

Carrie's Corner: Happy Birthday Bridges!
Angela Henderson-Bentley

Building Community Bridges: Tyson Compton

Growing up in Louisa, Kentucky, Tyson Compton couldn’t wait to leave the area, as he felt like he was born out of place. But, after a serious illness forced him to return home, Compton now can’t imagine living anywhere else.

Building Community Bridges: Tyson Compton
Jane Wilt Whitworth

A Flavor-full Fall Meal

As crisp air starts to sneak in, the goldenrod, asters, mums, and other late summer and fall flowers start to appear. School begins and schedules get hectic. Fairly quick but hearty meals are what we need to sustain us through the busy-ness of this time of year.

A Flavor-full Fall Meal
Tiny Garlicky Roasted Potatoes
Pork Tenderloin with Shallot, Mushroom and White Wine Sauce
Cabbage Apple Salad with Creamy Honey Lime Dressing
Oven Fried Apples on Gingerbread Shortcakes
Ashland Alliance Spotlight: The Value of One
Carrie Stambaugh, Managing Editor

Local Home Schoolers Share Their Stories

What constitutes a “good, well-rounded,” education? Ask a dozen parents and you will get as many different answers as they have children. For an increasing number of the world’s children, their parents are choosing to forego traditional public and private schools in order to craft a primary education that is inline with their values and standards and provides their definition of a “good, well-rounded education.”

Local Home Schoolers Share Their Stories
Amanda Gilmore

Library-ing from Home

Libraries have always been the door to a world of information and entertainment – a place where anyone, regardless of gender, race, income level or religion, has free access to knowledge. That’s a powerful thing.

Library-ing from Home
Kevin Compton

Reclaiming Half the Bookshelf

When she was young, Kendra Winchester’s reaction to her big brother’s tease that girls couldn’t do x, y or z was to read a book where a female protagonist did just that. It was a prophetic glimpse for how Winchester would later respond to a lack of female authors being featured in her English literature master’s program.

Reclaiming Half the Bookshelf
Diane Smith

One Good Turn (Deserves Another): Inclusive Ashland

When life throws out difficult situations, we make choices. “How do I react to this? Do I let it shape me negatively or do I become a catalyst for change?” Carly Carver, a reporter for the Ashland Daily Independent and mother of a child who has been diagnosed with autism, clearly chose the second option.

One Good Turn (Deserves Another): Inclusive Ashland
Taking Ownership: Southern Wayne Advocacy Council
Carrie Stambaugh, Managing Editor

Determined Entrepreneur: Diamond Lewis

The words, “Show your love today,” are hard to miss on Diamond Lewis’s left arm. He had them inked there after undergoing a transformational personal change. “Looking inward - that’s the hardest thing a human can do. I had to do that. I am grateful for that,” he said, adding. “Without the support and love from my wife Lisa, my family and my friends there’s no way I’d make it.”

Determined Entrepreneur: Diamond Lewis
Mistie Spicer

Wit & Wisdom: Old Friends, New Memories

Friendships are sometimes difficult to maintain as one gets older. People are busy with work, and family, and often spending time with friends gets put on the backburner. For the past 10 years I have been meeting once a month with some high school friends. Those friends are Carol Bentley, Denise Havens and Pam Boone.

Wit & Wisdom: Old Friends, New Memories