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Things werent looking that great for Levon Helm in the early 2000s. The Phillips County native, drummer, vocalist and founding member of The Band was battling throat cancer and had again filed for bankruptcy. The cancer had silenced his singing voice, one of the most distinct in rock n roll, and because of the money problems he was on the brink of losing his house and property in Woodstock, N.Y.

Things werent looking that great for Levon Helm in the early 2000s. The Phillips County native, drummer, vocalist and founding member of The Band was battling throat cancer and had again filed for bankruptcy.

Levon Helm, The Band, and the birth of Americana

Because so many of Oscar-winner Martin Scorseses movies have been set and shot in his native New York, its easy to forget that his first movie for a Hollywood studio was actually filmed near Camden.

In small communities, the people responsible for crucial public services say with bare-bones workforces already stretched thin, there is no margin for error when multiple workers have to call in sick.

In small communities, the people responsible for crucial public services say with bare-bones workforces already stretched thin, there is no margin for error when multiple workers have to call in sick.

In large cities and rural towns, the Omicron variant has workers calling in sick with Covid-19. But in the small towns, it is often hard to find a Plan B.

Holiday market on Tennessee Avenue

Festive Fridays in Ocean City

28:27 Hear artist Kevin Kresse during KUARs Not Necessarily Nashville on June 26, 2021 discussing his work on a statue of Johnny Cash. Because of copyright restrictions, we are unable to include the full Cash songs online that were broadcast during the program. Artist Kevin Kresse with a prototype of the statue he is making to eventually be on display in the U.S. Capitol. Credit Kevin Kresse Artist Kevin Kresse, who was selected by the state earlier this month to create a statue of Johnny Cash,...