Lead Story»Walnut Creek builds new nature center

Bob and Babs Strickland, who created the Walnut Creek Preserve in 2003, have now built a Nature Center there in memory of their daughter.
The Stricklands bought their Polk County farm 17 years ago and built their house two years later, calling it Serenity Farm.
Everything changed when an adjacent parcel of 2,000 acres owned by International Paper was put on the market. The Stricklands said…

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Since its first day of publication, The Tryon Daily Bulletin has been a hit with residents & visitors: famous, inconspicuous, and infamous. The Bulletin has built a rich and often surprising history since that first day in 1928. Noted as the world's smallest daily newspaper, Universal Newsreel came to town in 1938 to film the news short you see above. The Bulletin's founder, Seth Vining can be seen in the striped tie just after the door opening and closing scene. Click "read more" to learn about the Bulletin's storied history.



