Sports + Recreation

Your Woodstock Tailgate Food Guide

Five local spots for BBQ, brews, and pregame bites Article by City Lifestyle Queenies BBQ    Inside Reformation Brewery, at 105 Elm St - This is your great two-birds-one-stone option: order brisket and pulled pork right where you're also grabbing the beer. Reformation Brewery    Located at 105 Elm St – Pick up local craft beer while you wait, then grab favorite crowlers/growlers to bring to the tailgate. The Butcher's Block / The Butcher and A Baker   Located at 1025 Rose Creek Dr  ...

Home + Design

This partnership's mission starts with two sisters.

RED BaRN Custom Homes + Sunny & Ranney = A House with Heart and Style Galore Article by City Lifestyle A new partnership is bringing together luxurious homes and a meaningful mission. Sunshine on a Ranney Day, a nonprofit based in Roswell, has teamed up with RED BaRN Custom Homes, a Woodstock home builder known for creating custom homes in North Metro Atlanta. Two of their newly built homes have been staged with furniture and décor from Sunny & Ranney, the nonprofit’s retail store in Roswell...

Entertainment

Designing Confidence

Mrs. Georgia America 2026 Inspires Through Purpose and Perseverance Article by Tran Bui Lindsay Shockey, a Woodstock resident, spends her days helping bring spaces to life through thoughtful design. As Mrs. Georgia America 2026, she's applying that same intentional approach to helping others build resilience, purpose, and self-belief. "I was inspired by the incredible women who held this title before me," says Shockey. "Through their service, leadership, and dedication, they created a legacy...

Health + Wellness

Jason's full circle story:

One foot in front of the other, a local race director beat colon cancer and returned to the same finish line Article by Woodstock City Lifestyle | Photography by Atlanta Track Club Local Woodstock resident, Jason Stine has run the Peachtree Road Race yearly since 2003. But last year, he crossed that finish line without knowing something was wrong, three days later, a routine colonoscopy revealed Stage 3 colon cancer. This year, the 52-year-old Ironman triathlete and race director toed the...

Life + Culture

Love, Full Circle

Ray and Kerri fell in love without leaving downtown Woodstock Article by Woodstock City Lifestyle | Photography by Jess Suro Photo Company It had been raining since the night before, and everyone standing along Wheeler Street knew it wasn't going to stop for long. Ray and Kerri walked out anyway. The sky held just long enough for Kerri to make it down the aisle. Then, right as the vows began, it opened up. Nobody moved. About a hundred guests stood there in the rain, soaked through, refusing...

Wellness

A New Career Path

How Northside Hospital is training its own future, one student at a time Article by Peter Butler | Photography by City Lifestyle Last October, Northside Hospital quietly opened the doors of the Northside Hospital School of Radiology. No admissions essay, no four-year commitment, just eighteen months and a promise. The hospital had watched radiology jobs pile up faster than anyone could fill them, so it opened the Northside Hospital School of Radiography, growing its own workforce, student by...

Local Services

Helping Children

“Hugo’s Brave Bite” launched to Support Families at the Table Article by City Lifestyle For many families, mealtimes are meant to be moments of connection. But for parents of children with feeding challenges, they can be filled with stress, worry, and uncertainty. Local pediatric feeding therapist Charlene Kurkjian, OTR/L, knows this reality well — and she's bringing hope to the table in a new way with the launch of her children's book, Hugo's Brave Bite. Charlene is the founder of Happy...

Sports + Recreation

Putting for Glory

A Canton ten-year-old wins one of junior golf's most storied titles Article by Glenn Lazarus | Photography by Provided by Sarah Burris The crowd surged toward the eighth green before the ball even stopped rolling. Cole Burris, ten years old and standing in the middle of his biggest golf moment, had just made the putt that mattered most. Not a practice round. Not a warm-up. The championship putt, on the third hole of a sudden-death playoff, at one of the most storied junior golf tournaments in...

Education

Pages, People, and Possibility

Inside the renovation redefining what a Cherokee County library means for your family. Article by Mark O'Donnell | Photography by Katie Nielson It started in 1922 with a borrowed room behind a jewelry store on Canton's Main Street and a collection of donated books tended by a volunteer two days a week. More than a century later, the Sequoyah Regional Library System has grown into one of North Georgia's most quietly essential institutions: eight locations, more than 1 million checkouts, and...

Life + Culture

Books Born From Love

Local author Brittany Petish writes for kids but reaches everyone Article by Woodstock City Lifestyle | Photography by Provided by Brittany Petish She spends most of her weekends at a table full of books, with a golden doodle named Tate working the crowd beside her. There is usually a story time somewhere on the calendar, a new partnership in the works, and at least one moment that stops her in her tracks and reminds her exactly why she started. Brittany Petish has called Cherokee County home...