Halls News

Strawberries are so unpredictable that they should be embarrassed. Some years they show up in the middle of April; other years they hold off until mid-May. Sure, a lot of it has to do with the weather, but none of that matters to the person craving the taste of their first ripe local strawberry of the season.

The Mini Mall was started by husband-and-wife team Warren and Marie Biddle, who once operated retail booths at the now defunct Turkey Creek Public Market.

Special to the News Sentinel Tanya Perry, left, and Amanda Allen sort through the toys of Allen's daughter to see what should go to a yard sale.

HALLS - Two suspects in a possible hate crime are wanted by the Knox County Sheriff's Office after racial slurs were written on one family's front steps.

Halls native Rachel Cunningham said her mother, Charlene Roberts, the owner of Charlene's Colony of Shoppes in Halls, began her home furnishing business in their family hog barn 29 years ago.