At least one Marshall County child -- perhaps among a couple more and possibly some adults -- has been ill this month as a result of infection from E. coli bacteria, a public health threat that warrants a precautionary note, according to a local pharmacist... more

Drivers licenses can now be renewed in Lewisburg, according to an announcement made at the County Commission's meeting Monday night. County Clerk Daphne Fagan told commissioners and a small audience that her office in the Courthouse Annex is now "up and running with drivers licenses," including taking the pictures. They have done almost 100 since the beginning of the month... more

One of the participants at Farm Marketing Workshop has already acted on the advice she was given and set up a Facebook page for her business. Judy Haynes set up a page for Haynes Honey Farm later that same day and wrote, "This is all new to me so I am learning as I go. Hope you enjoy my page."... more

Back in the bad old days, I never dared hope that I would someday be writing on the topic of my 20th wedding anniversary. I was quite the lonely teenager and young adult. Girls wouldn't even give me the proverbial "time of day." All that changed with a fateful blind date at Bonanza Family Steakhouse in Columbia. ... more

Funeral services for Jerre Hunter Sanders, 87, of Lewisburg, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 29, at the Lewisburg First United Methodist Church, with burial to follow in Lone Oak Cemetery. more

Funeral services for Thomas W. "Tommy" Ring, 65, of Chapel Hill, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 29, from the chapel of Lawrence Funeral Home with Ed Daughrity officiating, followed by burial in Swanson Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 until 8 p.m. Saturday, May 28, at Lawrence Funeral Home... more

The Cornersville High School softball team finished third at the Class A state tournament, losing 3-2 to Chattanooga Grace in the final of the losers' bracket in Murfreesboro. CHS took a 2-1 lead in the top of the eighth when Makayla Campbell singled home Madilyn Calahan. But Grace (42-8) got a one-out triple and single to tie the game, and Kaitlyn Eldridge hit a two-out single to win the game... more

What could be taken as preventive medicine was prescribed Thursday during Lewisburg's Police Department Law Enforcement Memorial Service by the father of a highway patrolman who was murdered during a traffic stop several years ago. "Sometimes you see a kid off to the left or right" of the straight path of behavior, Norman Jenks, father of Trooper Calvin Jenks, told his audience in Rock Creek Park. "Don't be afraid to tap them on the shoulder ... to let them know what's right and wrong."... more

A Lewisburg Police sergeant, who kept a $100 bill he found on the front yard of a house during a domestic call, was demoted to patrol officer on Friday, according to public records. Officer Anthony McLean returned to patrol duty Monday evening after a week of paid administrative leave, Police Chief Chuck Forbis said. McLean was paid $39,464 annually. He's now making $38,329... more

Marshall County's Election Commission today is to interview six top applicants for the job of election administrator, according to the commission's unanimous vote Monday night at the close of an unusually long session in the Hardison Office Annex. Culled from an original list of 20 applicants, the six include incumbent administrator Jo Ann Henry, who's on paid leave in connection with the 3-2 vote on May 11 by commissioners to open the position to applicants and investigate complaints about election office operations.. ... more

A Marshall County jury, selected Monday, continued to hear evidence Tuesday in a state case against a Bedford County hog farmer accused of polluting several Marshall County residents' wells at Clay Hill near the Duck River Speedway. Charlie Haskins, 63, of Haskins Chapel Road was arrested in August 2009. ... more

Geraldine Richardson, 84, of Lewisburg, died Saturday, May 21, 2011, at NHC Lewisburg. Mrs. Richardson was a native of Marshall County, the daughter of the late Lynn and Carrie Ketchum Chapman. She retired from Faber-Castell and was a member of the Church Street Church of Christ... more

Betty D. Greer, 65, died Saturday, May 21, 2011, in Nashville. She was a native of Marshall County, daughter of the late Joe L. and Kathryn Love Greer and a member of Second Avenue Church of Christ. She was preceded in death by her sister, Amy Claritta Greer-Kerr... more

The Farmington Road, Lewisburg, Group of Al-Anon meets at 6 p.m. every Tuesday. For more information, call Julie at 270-6839. Addresses for donations for the upkeep of Marshall County cemeteries include: Cochran -- Cochran Cemetery Trust Fund, c/o Ann Tipton, 5515 Nashville Hwy, Chapel Hill, TN 37034; Elliott -- Dot Zimmerle, P.O. ... more

A Lewisburg man who pled guilty in two cases and was sentenced in November was back in Circuit Court last week, seeking post-conviction relief. Robert Jason Burgess, 36, formerly of East Commerce Street, unsuccessfully tried to persuade Judge Robert Crigler that he should have a jury trial because he had not been well represented by his lawyers and because he had been forced into a guilty plea... more

On the night of May 19, several hay fields in the Chapel Hill area were damaged by someone driving through them "cutting doughnuts." Cost of the damage is estimated to be well over $2,000. If anyone has information on these crimes, the Marshall County Sheriff's office asks them to call Crime Stoppers at 359-4867. There is a reward if information leads to an arrest... more

The second major multi-night walking horse show of the season, the 41st Annual Spring Fun Show, begins Thursday night and runs through Saturday. The Spring Fun Show is always on the weekend of Memorial Day. The Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration is the sponsoring organization for this event... more

"Imagine there's no heaven/It's publicity-generating if you try." (With apologies to John Lennon). Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (a.k.a. "oh, yeah, the brainy guy with the … more

Approximately 50 more jobs are coming to the Calsonic Kansei North America parts supplier for Nissan vehicle assembly plants because an important part of the LEAF electric car's power train will be made in Lewisburg. Some of the people without the qualifications to shift their workload to other car and truck parts manufacturing will be transferred within the company and some employees will have new assignments here, CKNA Human Resources Director David Vick said Tuesday... more

A 4th grade class in Chapel Hill had a new experience this week: they talked face-to-face with their counterparts at a school in Germany. Once the connection had been made, students in Alice Coble's class gathered in small groups to stand in range of a laptop's Web cam and make their presentations... more