City representatives and Ballad Health officials gathered Thursday to celebrate the opening of Kingsport’s first Center for Early Learning opening — a project nearly three years in the making.

With its packed schedule of sporting events, concerts, and festivals, Atlanta is a city that’s rarely quiet. But just 25 miles east of the city is a place devoted to solitude and silence.

Home to a small community of less than 30 Trappist monks, the Monastery of the Holy Spirit was established back in 1944 when a group of monks left an abbey in Kentucky with the goal of founding a ...