Who Is Darla Mae?

Darla Mae Jenkin is Pine Lick’s own queen of the airwaves — the anchor of *Pine Lick TV Weekly News*, which broadcasts every Thursday right after the farm report and before the high school football replays. She speaks with the poise of a national network anchor… if that anchor also knew the exact number of beers Bubba can drink before falling asleep in his truck.

She grew up on the edge of town, daughter of a bait shop owner and a church organist, and discovered her “reporting” talent at 12 when she started reading neighborhood gossip into a hairbrush. By 18, she was covering the Pine Lick County Fair for the local cable station, and by 25, she was the face — and voice — of the whole channel.

Darla has a way of making even the smallest events sound urgent. A cow loose on Highway 14 becomes “a developing traffic and public safety crisis.” A bake sale shortage turns into “a food supply emergency in the heart of Pine Lick.” And if nothing’s happening? She’ll just raise an eyebrow at the camera and let the audience fill in the rest.

Personality

Sharp-tongued but charming, Darla Mae is the unofficial record keeper of Pine Lick’s triumphs, tragedies, and scandals. She can slip from a sympathetic smile to a raised eyebrow faster than Roy can put a truck in a pond. If you’ve got secrets, she probably already knows them — and she’ll sit on them… until ratings week.

She’s rumored to be dating Sheriff Bo Harper, though both deny it. Still, locals can’t help but notice that her “exclusive inside sources” for police updates often show up wearing Bo’s jacket.

Legacy

Whether you love her, hate her, or avoid her mic like it’s a subpoena, Darla Mae Jenkin is Pine Lick’s voice — sometimes literally, since her broadcasts are played on a loop in Bubba’s Garage for background noise. She might not change the world, but she’ll make sure the world knows when someone changes a stop sign in town.

In Pine Lick, news travels fast. But with Darla Mae, it travels fabulous.