Extension Agent Mike Hiller recalled the lightbulb moment 19 years ago that made him realize Jackson County was the place for him. His supervisor took him to commissioners’ court and drove him around town afterwards.
“We were waiting at the main light by the courthouse, and I realized we had to wait for this man in his John Deere to cross the light,” he said. “All the traffic stopped and no one sat on their horns, the man just took his time and drove on through. I told my supervisor, this looks like my kind of place.”
Much of that laid back, no-one-in-a-hurry lifestyle is what’s kept him here in Jackson all these years. Now, the time has come for him to say goodbye and retire at the end of this month…