“WMTN 93.1 & 103.1 at St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School recently captured two first-place awards at the national competition for high school broadcasting called The Drury Awards… WMTN took home top honors in two categories, Best Radio Drama and Best Podcast. Additionally, the students received second-place honors in the Best Talk Show category.”

Harriet Runkle, owner of the Frame Gallery, donated a tiger sculpture to Sewanee Elementary School. Stripes the Tiger is enjoying its new home on the school’s front lawn. Teachers, staff , and students love the new addition and are grateful to Ms. Runkle for her contribution to our school. Pictured are Principal Allison Dietz, 5th-grade students Bentley Rollins and Arabella Barry, and Harriet Runkle.

Reflecting on her first five years as owner of the Frame Gallery in downtown Sewanee, local businesswoman Harriet Runkle is most proud of the fact that her business is thriving. “I’m proud I’ve hung in there,” Runkle said. “It’s not easy to have your own small business in Sewanee.”

On Jan. 22, Harriet Runkle celebrated the one-year anniversary of opening the Frame Gallery. She bought the frame shop, formerly known as Corners, from Mindy Melton, and expanded the business beyond framing. When opening the Frame Gallery, Runkle set out with three goals to accomplish: to provide a place for custom framing, a gallery space for local artists, and a place for children to create art.

For Rea Mingeva, coming to work at Frame Gallery was yet another turn of fortune in her life—and a reunion with a kindred spirit. When Runkle purchased the assets of Corners Custom Framing and started her own business there in January, her vision was to not only offer framing services, but create a corner shop of artistic invitation and education. Soon she tabbed Mingeva, a master framer, to join the staff.

Mindy Melton is packing up when her son Wyatt comes through the shop door on the last day of business for Corners Custom Framing in Sewanee. When asked why she started Corners in February 2009, Wyatt raises his hand. She was catering when she was pregnant with him and needed something less physically demanding, so she opened the shop.