Free Range Conversations

FOOD TRUCK FRIDAY BRINGS PEOPLE TO PIONEER VILLAGE - Angelica Glass performs during the Aug. 16 Food Truck Friday event at the Pioneer Village at Rison. The next Food Truck Friday is Sept. 20. During this week's Free Range Conversations podcast, Pioneer Village President Marty Bowlin shares the impact the food truck partnership with Rison Shine Community Development has made on the Village. Bowlin also touches on reviving the Pioneer Crafts Festival, and the paranormal activity recently discovered.

FOOD TRUCK FRIDAY BRINGS PEOPLE TO PIONEER VILLAGE - Angelica Glass performs during the Aug. 16 Food Truck Friday event at the Pioneer Village at Rison. The next Food Truck Friday is Sept. 20. During this week's Free Range Conversations podcast, Pioneer Village President Marty Bowlin shares the impact the food truck partnership with Rison Shine Community Development has made on the Village. Bowlin also touches on reviving the Pioneer Crafts Festival, and the paranormal activity recently discovered.

Free Range Conversations, Episode 8: Pioneer Village Sees Boost In Traffic, Plus Paranormal Activity

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024
RISON - Marty Bowlin, president of the Pioneer Village, joins in on an episode of the Free Range Conversations podcast focusing on the historic property in Rison.This episode of the podcast is now streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and on clevelandcountyherald.com in its entirety.
LOW DOSE CT ADVOCATE - This is a screen shot take of Malinda Mc Knight of the Staves community in her video testimonial for CART. McKnight has become an advocate Low-Dose CTs after the simple scan helped her find her cancer in the early stages.

LOW DOSE CT ADVOCATE - This is a screen shot take of Malinda Mc Knight of the Staves community in her video testimonial for CART. McKnight has become an advocate Low-Dose CTs after the simple scan helped her find her cancer in the early stages.

Free Range Conversations, Episode 7: McKnight Encourages Low-Dose CT To Help Smokers Detect Early Cancer

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Wednesday, August 14, 2024
RISON - Cleveland County Cares Coordinator and cancer survivor Melinda McKnight is urging current and former smokers to get a Low-Dose CT scan (LDCT) to screen for lung cancer in this week's episode of the Free Range Conversations podcast.
RISON'S OWN SPARTAN CATCHES THE FEVER - Rison's Les Walz, pictured here competing in a Spartan Race in 2021, sits down for this week's episode of the Herald's Free Range Conversations podcast. He shares stories of his time as Cleveland County's extension agent, growing up in Germany, and how he caught the competitive exercise fever.

RISON'S OWN SPARTAN CATCHES THE FEVER - Rison's Les Walz, pictured here competing in a Spartan Race in 2021, sits down for this week's episode of the Herald's Free Range Conversations podcast. He shares stories of his time as Cleveland County's extension agent, growing up in Germany, and how he caught the competitive exercise fever.

Free Range Conversations, Episode 4: Walz's 'Mid-Life Crisis' Becomes His New Passion

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Wednesday, July 24, 2024
RISON - While others may call it a mid-life crisis or simply crazy, Les Walz of the Macedonia community calls it fun and a challenge he is ready to meet head-on.
NASHVILLE CONNECTIONS - Rison in the Fall organizer Douglas Boultinghouse (right) with this year's festival headliner, Charles Esten (left), during a visit to Nashville in 2014.

NASHVILLE CONNECTIONS - Rison in the Fall organizer Douglas Boultinghouse (right) with this year's festival headliner, Charles Esten (left), during a visit to Nashville in 2014.

Free Range Conversations, Episode 2: Boultinghouse Uses Music City Contacts to Revive Rison Festival

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Wednesday, July 10, 2024
RISON - As the Rison in the Fall Festival was starting to fade and was in badly need of a makeover, Douglas Boultinghouse used his connections with the music scene in Nashville to turn the event into one of the premier festivals of the region.