“Okay, so let’s call tonight’s meeting of the Stockard Creek Town Council Board of Trustees to order…”

The Council President was an ex-national level triathlon competitor named Marguerite Stone – Rita for short – who owned one of the community’s true lifeblood centers – and it was not a food establishment. Instead, Rita had inherited – and now owned and operated – Stone’s Hardware, right on the main strip of Stockard Creek. While there had been ...