Category Archives: Feature Writing

Shedding light on social workers who pick up the broken pieces each day. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark– Will and Ty Cassady are siblings who were adopted by Wendy and Richard Cassady in December 2018. Will is a typical 11-year-old boy. He plays video games, loves watching Pokémon and playing basketball in the backyard. He and his brotherContinue reading “The Overlooked Heroes”

A story of going through pregnancy and birth during a global pandemic. SPRINGDALE, Ark— As the new year began, things started to look a bit different for soon-to-be new parents, Paige and Matt Heffron. Once they heard the Coronavirus that originated in China was becoming an issue in the U.S., they realized it could actuallyContinue reading “New Life and the Unknown”

The effects of homelessness in the lives of U.S. veterans and the difficulties of becoming a part of society post-military. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.— At the Fayetteville Salvation Army Shelter, the living arrangements resembled those of a college dorm. Storage consisted of one small stand-up locker. There, Courtney Schrock and her two sons lived. The smell ofContinue reading “The Transition Into Society”

A single mother tells the story of her life in Mexico and her courage to build a new life in America for herself and her three children. Found in the dried-up fields of San Luis Potosí, Mexico in the 1980s were many farmers tending to what crops they had, hoping they would have enough harvestContinue reading “The Journey to a New Start-Immigration to the U.S.”