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Mahoney Knows Homes: House Hunting as a Couple
How to Survive the Process (and Still Like Each Other After)
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And Then There's This... Three Non-Valentine Poems for Norma
In our 61 years together, I can't recall ever giving my wife Norma a Valentine nor celebrating the occasion with her. To me, it was utter silliness that a day and a symbol I had nothing to do with creating could render me more romantic than I could be on my own.
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Mahoney Knows Homes: What HGTV Doesn’t Tell You About Renovating a House
“Mahoney Knows Homes” is the Gazette’s expert real estate column. Author Jack Mahoney is a realtor in Kingston Springs who is driven by a mission to deliver top-tier service, trusted market insight and meaningful value to the community he calls home.
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Flights of imagination now boarding at Kingston Springs Library
If arctic blasts, short days of half-hearted sunshine and the hideous cost of good brandy are getting you down, then head immediately to the Kingston Springs Library and book your psyche for an escape flight to cheerier places and times.
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And Then There's This... Norma: Bitter Pills & Glances
This is the August 14, 2020, excerpt from “Stardust: An Alzheimer's Love Story,” my day to day accounts of caring for my wife Norma in the advanced stages of her dementia.
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Former mayor launches Keep Fit Kingston Springs initiative with First Day 5K
Former Kingston Springs Mayor Tony Gross launched a new community wellness initiative, Keep Fit Kingston Springs, on Jan. 1, marking its debut with the ninth annual First Day 5K run.
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Cheatham County Animal Shelter places 813 cats in 2025, continues multi-year growth
The Cheatham County Animal Shelter closed out 2025 with one of its most successful years yet for its cat program, placing 813 cats into homes or partner rescues and entering the new year with just two adoptable cats remaining in its free-roaming cat room.
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Happy new reads from the Kingston Springs Library
We know libraries are magical places. But unless your imagination is far more mushroomy than mine, you've never conjured up a situation like the one depicted by Hiki Harada in her “Dinner at the Night Library.”
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And Then There's This... Norma: Scenes from a Marriage
This is the June 17, 2020, excerpt from “Stardust: An Alzheimer's Love Story,” my day to day accounts of caring for my wife Norma in the advanced stages of her dementia.
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CCAC seeks 50 volunteers for ‘Operation Silent Night’ holiday shelter push
Cheatham County Animal Control is once again aiming to “clear the shelter” this holiday season with its second annual Operation Silent Night, running Dec. 20 through Jan. 4. To match last year’s success — when the initiative resulted in 53 adoptions and 42 animals spending Christmas in foster homes — the
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Greer House holiday event brings neighbors together to support The Ark
The Greer House and local realtor Jack Mahoney welcomed neighbors for a Holiday Open House and community benefit on Saturday, Dec. 6, gathering donations for The Ark and kicking off the season with live music and festive treats.
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And Then There's This... Norma: Collateral Damage
This is the May 25, 2020, excerpt from “Stardust: An Alzheimer's Love Story,” my day to day accounts of caring for my wife Norma in the advanced stages of her dementia. Norma has fallen. Hard. And I let it happen. I had just helped her into clean pajamas,