Walk into Tower Community Bank, and you will quickly notice it doesn’t feel like a typical financial institution. It features a more friendly atmosphere, befitting its name. “Our claim to fame is we are a community bank,” said Nolensville native Hunter Battle, Tower’s executive vice president and president of the mortgage division based in Nolensville….
From bars to restaurants to one of the state’s largest bail bond companies, Greg Sanford has owned more than 20 businesses over the past 30 years. Now he’s put that entrepreneurial spirit to good use in opening Greg Sanford Real Estate, LLC, in June. Sanford is the owner and broker and has hired fellow realtors…
Even serving as a church youth leader a decade ago, Gwen Noe wasn’t feeling productive. Her family had moved to Nashville from Arkansas so the oldest son Matthew could better pursue his love of hockey. Hearing of his later desire to be a firefighter, she talked to then-chief Chris Bastin about becoming a chaplain with…
For those of you who don’t know Ethan Painter, he’s a personal trainer and exercise physiologist with more than 15 years of experience and the owner of Odyssey Fitness located in Nolensville. You might have seen Ethan at local charity events (Art Helps Cancer or the Nolensville Food Pantry) with his wife Julia, running his…
About 6,500 leagues compete each year in Little League baseball and softball in the United States and 80+ countries. With only 20 advancing to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, it’s quite amazing that Nolenville has sent teams in consecutive years twice since 2013. Town players were part of the South Nashville group…
Ronnie Haislip recalls the first time he set foot in Nolensville. He was about 7-8 years old in the mid-1960s running around the 12½ acres of land his parents Alfred (Red), and the late Melba had bought. “They just let me go. I think I was ADD back then,” the now 66-year-old said. “I would…
Ever since he finished his active duty in the U.S. Air Force in 1983, David Windrow has been a firefighter. So when Nolensville needed someone to lead its first paid fire department, he was a natural choice. The 59-year-old was hired in December 2020 to set job descriptions and policies, purchase and test all initial…
When Nolensville residents voted to change the town’s governance to a professional town manager/commissioner system, they must have had someone like Victor Lay in mind. The 57-year-old recently celebrated his second year in the position after more than two decades in town management elsewhere in Tennessee. A civil engineer by trade, he started his career…
Thanks in large part to the programs and initiatives implemented since Roddy Parker became police chief five years ago, Nolensville was named the fifth-safest city in all of Tennessee in 2022. Parker attributes it to the increase in community involvement. “We couldn’t accomplish that unless we have the support of our community which supports us…
While Paz Molnar has not yet reached the same athletic level as her older sister Olivia, she has used her abilities to help others with physical challenges. An eighth grader at Killian Middle School, the younger sibling spent several days this summer training to be a sighted guide for visually impaired triathletes. She first learned…