This is not going to be the typical "Back To School" editorial. Yes, you need to observe speed limits in school zones, and you need to make sure your kindergartener's backpack isn't sending his chiropractor's kids through Harvard -- but I'm here to tell you of the other joys and pitfalls that await eager parents and students this fall... more

Admission will be free Wednesday, Aug. 24, at the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' and Exhibitors' Association National Futurity, due to start at 5:30 p.m. at the Calsonic Arena on the Celebration grounds in Shelbyville. The futurity will feature a special exhibition by 2002 World Grand Champion Out On Parole... more

BIP Productions presents Rockenstein 2011, a free concert starting at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, in Rock Creek Park, Lewisburg. Expected to perform are Killing Grace, Sometimes Saturday, Overthrown, The Living, Doc Sinister and the Traveling Rock-n-Roll Show, Kingdom Reign, and Circle of Signs... more

CORNERSVILLE -- This southern Marshall County municipality could be extending its boundaries again, according to discussion at City Hall. City Administrator Taylor Brandon has explained to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen that annexing part of the Hoyt Lowrance property at the north end of town would create " more uniformity in the city limits."... more

Church Street Church of Christ is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year and Monday was the congregation's 125th year of worship on Church Street. On the third Sunday of September, the congregation begins its four-day Gospel Meeting that will include celebration of the 175th anniversary of a church that traces its roots to the very beginning of Lewisburg and Marshall County... more

The price of copper is so high these days that when Lewisburg Electric Service sells wire it's replacing, the proceeds pay for practically everything except the labor of LES crewmen who'd be paid doing something else anyway. The LES Board of Directors was advised of the cost savings that are being realized as nearly two miles of copper wires are being replaced with aluminum wires that include a mix of conductive alloys. Without the copper sale, the two-mile project could cost $250,000... more

The Marshall County Veterans Services Office welcomed a special visitor Thursday. Wendell Cheek, Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Affairs, is making a series of visits to veterans services offices across the mid-state, seeking answers to the question: "How can we best serve the veterans of Tennessee?"... more

In addition to Friday mornings, the Farmers Market at Rock Creek Park, Lewisburg, will now be open on Tuesdays from noon to 6 p.m. Marshall County girls age 8-10 are invited to join girls from Giles, Lawrence and Maury counties as part of the Splash Girls 10U fastpitch softball team which will play in the Columbia fall league at the new Ridley Park and in travel tournaments. E-mail splashgirls10u@yahoo.com for more information. There are only a few spots open and the final sign-up is Aug. 20... more

It's still summer and children have just gone back to school, but already it's time to be thinking about the holidays and "Cops for Kids," the Lewisburg Police Department's gift to children who otherwise wouldn't have a Christmas. Last year, the department took 135 children shopping at Wal-Mart, with $100 each to spend on presents for themselves and their family... more

The Caney Spring Volunteer Fire Department "cleared $1,250" from its recent fundraiser, according to Marshall County Commissioner E.W. Hill, a leading officer with the department. Millie Miller, proprietor of Celebration Inn on Nashville Highway in Lewisburg "was kind enough to let us use her lot" next to the Inn, Hill said about where the department held its yard sale... more

Lewisburg city employees are to be protected against discontinuation of their former retirement program, according to discussion among city councilmen at their most recent meeting. The resolution addresses the employees' 401(k) retirement savings plan that's different from a pension program, and councilmen unanimously voted for a resolution asserting a technical aspect of the program... more

A Lewisburg man's trial lasted one day and jury deliberations extended into the next morning before a guilty verdict was issued and the maximum possible fines imposed. Neil Vader, 33, of Finley Beech Road, was accused of driving after being declared a Habitual Motor Vehicle Offender; driving under the influence, fourth offense; violation of the implied consent law; and driving on a revoked license... more

Served with 17th Judicial District Drug Task Force warrants at Marshall County Jail Arrested and charged with driving under the influence Arrested and charged with driving on a suspended license Arrested at the same time was the passenger in the car, Gary S. Puckett, 28, Chapel Hill. Puckett was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. His bond was set at $500; court date: Sept. 13... more

A Lewisburg man's trial lasted one day and jury deliberations extended into the next morning before a guilty verdict was issued and the maximum possible fines imposed. Neil Vader, 33, of Finley Beech Road, was accused of driving after being declared a Habitual Motor Vehicle Offender; driving under the influence, fourth offense; violation of the implied consent law; and driving on a revoked license... more

Two Culleoka men were sentenced in Circuit Court last week, and one of them left in handcuffs to begin serving a six-year term. Trey Green, 30, was found guilty by a jury at a trial in June, but remained free on bond. He was back in front of Judge Robert Crigler on Aug. ... more

It only seems like Americans have gone crazy for ribbons: yellow for returning soldiers; pink to find a cure for breast cancer; and now blue to deal with child abuse. Volunteers now advocating blue ribbon displays, however, are unanimous in their desire to deal with child abuse and take steps to stop crimes that would appear to be everywhere. Another example of what motivates them is the Blue Ribbon story. more

Hot conditions in Marshall County's schools were a topic at the school board's meeting Monday, and still a cause for concern Thursday afternoon. "We've got a lot of hot kids," said board member Harvey Jones Jr. who had added the topic of "thermostats" to the board's agenda. more

Lewisburg's city manager has expanded a Manchester firm's service contract because the governor eliminated the Local Planning Division of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (ECD). In recent years, Kristin Costanzo, a local planner in the ECD office in Nashville, provided Lewisburg planning commissioners with professional advice on how to deal with planning and zoning issues. It's a frequently arcane, but sometimes a controversial and emotional topic, as city councilmen realized again Tuesday when two residents opposed establishment of a crematory on Yell Road. more

An ebb and flow of well-wishers went to the McKnight Center adjacent to First United Methodist Church on Wednesday afternoon providing personal tribute to Tommy Higdon's three decades of public service. "This is the party he didn't get the first time he won" election as Marshall County Court Clerk, his loving wife, Betty Jo Higdon, said as the two-hour party was coming to an end. That campaign in 1981 took such a toll on Higdon, she said, that after the race was over, he "went home to sleep." more

Lewisburg leaders' and downtown business and property owners' reactions to college students' proposals for redesign of buildings were so positive that one of the instructors anticipates an encore next summer. more