Buy Local Challenge winners named
Troyer wins $1,000 Shopping Spree
Buy Local Challenge 2026 Winners
Top Prize winners
• Grand Prize, $1,000 Spree – Teresa Troyer.
• Second Prize, Town of Taylorsville $500 Prize – Brent Warren.
• Third Prize, Dollywood passes – April Bennington.
• $100 winner – Gene Levan.
• Biltmore trip (merchant) – Apple City BBQ.
Individual business prize drawings
• Ace Hardware Taylorsville, Darrell Stevenson, $50 Ace Hardware Gift Certificate.
• Adams Funeral Home, Kathy Cline, $50 Country Roads Greenhouse Gift Certificate.
• Alexander Funeral Service, Darlene Childers, $50 Trading Post Gift Certificate.
• Apple City BBQ, Kathryn Ayers, $25.00 Apple City BBQ Gift Certificate.
• Beasley Power Equipment, Rosa Barnes, $25 Beasley’s Gift Certificate.
• Benfield Agency, Marshall Newman, $50 Gift Card to Hollar’s Backstreet Grill.
• Bethlehem Pharmacy, Thomas Pen, $50 Village Inn (Bethlehem) Gift Certificate.
• Cooper Southern, Linda Kerley, Gift Basket by Southern Grace Gift Company.
• Country Road Greenhouse, Phil Bentley, Customized Potted Arrangement
• Country Town Tire, Barbara Brittain, oil change, tire rotation service, value $50.
• Giovanni’s Pizza, Darrell Chapman, $25 Giovanni’s Gift Certificate.
• Habitat Restore Joe Ramsey $50 Restore Gift Card
• Hartness Hometown Properties, Richard Deal, $50 gas card.
• Heritage Sandwich and Deli, Robin Earp, $25 Heritage Sandwich and Deli Gift Card.
• Hendren Insurance, Linda Frye, $50.00 Cash Prize.
• Hill Billy Hemp, Norman Warren, $250.00 Gift Certificate.
• Holland Chiropractic, Donna Icard.
• Hwy. 16 Superette: (Winner 1) Tanner George, $50 gas card; (Winner 2) Robert Clark, $50 gas card; (Winner 3) Sherri Huffman, $50 gas card; (Winner 4) Anastasia Sines, $50 gas card.
• Johnson’s Milling, Jessica Winters, $25 Johnson’s Gift Certificate.
• Koto’s, Joseph Berry, $25 Koto’s Gift Certificate.
• Little Stitches, Donna Pennell, $50 Little Stitches Gift Certificate.
• Main Street Tire, Charles Marlowe, $50 Main Street Gift card.
• Mays Meats, Zakiyyah Yates, $50 Mays Meats Gift Certificate.
• Morgans Dairy Bar, Shannon White, $25 Morgan’s gift card.
• Office Practice Pharmacy, Craven Clark, $25 Office Practice gift card.
• Peoples Drug, Billy Miles, $100 Kiley’s Sugar Shoppe gift certificate.
• PJ’s Seafood, Cindy Little, $50 PJ’s Gift Certificate.
• Road Market Antiques, Crystal Tawney, $25 gift certificate and Road Market Antiques t-shirt.
• Rooted on Main, Julie Deal, $75 in store gift card.
• R Shoppe, Tasia Hicks, a gift basket and a $25 Apple City gift certificate.
• Shaggy’s Good Buys, Carolyn Ryals, two-sided yard sign or 100 business cards.
• S&S Family Restaurant, Jill Crouch, dinner for two at S&S Family Restaurant.
• Scotty’s Hometown Grill: (Winner 1) Dana Stafford, $25 Scotty’s Gift Certificate; (Winner 2) Brenda White, $25 Scotty’s Gift Certificate.
• Sipe Lumber Company, Duncan Ames, Seasonal Trends Steel Fire Pit, $149.99 value.
• Southern Clothing & More, Robin Shook, $75 store Gift Card.
• Taylorsville Savings Bank: (Winner 1) Crossroads Grill, Cassidy Mitchell, $25 Crossroads Grill gift certificate; (Winner 2) Scotty’s Hometown Grill, Sue White, $25 Scotty’s Hometown Grill gift certificate; (Winner 3) Teen’s and Dean’s, Megan Sucharda, $25 Teen’s & Deen’s gift certificate; (Winner 4) Giovannis, Wayne High, $25 Giovanni’s gift Certificate; (Winner 5) Mays Meats, June Robbins, $25 Mays Meats gift certificate; (Winner 6) Kiley’s Sugar Shoppe, Ruth Elder, $25 Kiley’s Sugar Shoppe gift certificate.
• The Taylorsville Times, Rebecca Duckworth Choice of: Crawdads Tickets, 1,000 envelopes or 1,000 business cards.
• The Doll Cottage, Journie James, $50 Doll Cottage or Candy Cane Lane gift certificate.
• The Dairy Bar, Sonnie Barnette, $30 Dairy Bar Gift Certificate.
• Think Pink Marketplace, George Guy, $25 Think Pink gift certificate; Decorated genuine leather elephant (additional prize that required purchase), Beverly Fain.
• Think Pink Uniques Bootique, Brenda Carpenter, $25 Think Pink Uniques gift certificate; Beautiful Fairy figurine (additional prize that required purchase), Tracy Peterson.
• Town and Country Drug, Shirley Parsons, Health and Wellness Basket, $100.00 value.
• Town of Taylorsville, Jerry Pennell, $25 Heritage Deli Gift Certificate.
• Tractor Supply Company, Sherry Brown, $50 Tractor Supply gift certificate.
