Marshall County veterinarians will offer rabies vaccinations at the reduced rate of $8 for the month of April. Tennessee law requires all cats and dogs three months of age and older to be vaccinated against rabies by a licensed veterinarian. There have already been three cases of rabies confirmed in Marshall County this year... more

While jury members were deliberating an arson case last week, Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler arraigned a man who was indicted by the grand jury on March 23. Thomas B. Beard, 25, of Poarch Hollow Road, was charged with child abuse after the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation made a direct presentment to the grand jury. Beard was arrested on a bench warrant while he was in the courthouse on another matter, and brought to Crigler's courtroom for arraignment... more

BERLIN -- Nearly 170 bicyclists competed Saturday in the Hell of the South race patterned after a race starting in Paris, France, called Hell of the North because of its difficulty. More than 50 flat tires was one result, indicating this early race in the season for cyclists really is a test of man and machine, according to James Weeks, the organizing official for the women's bicycle race... more

Marshall County was established by an act of the Legislature passed February 26, 1836 from parts of Bedford, Lincoln and Maury Counties. Verona is located on the Verona-Caney Spring Road about five miles north of Lewisburg. It is situated on 1,125 acres granted to David Ross by the State of North Carolina. ... more

Leaders of a recently formed long-haul trucking company in Lewisburg anticipate hiring more employees and the owners say they want to help lower Marshall County's unemployment rate. CDT (Commercial Drivers Trucking) Transport LLC is located on Heil Quaker Avenue at the old Heil Quaker Fleet Shop, abandoned by ICP nearly a decade ago. Conservatively speaking, about 20 jobs are to be filled... more

Police officers say the worst part of their job is telling the next of kin about highway fatalities, but consider the call made by an athletic trainer from a football field here to tell a mother her son is in a helicopter ambulance bound for Nashville and he can't move or feel anything... more

A Lewisburg man was found guilty Tuesday evening at the end of a two-day trial on charges of aggravated burglary and arson. A jury of seven women and five men took almost three hours to decide that Mitchell J. Ford, 33, formerly of Nashville Highway, was guilty as charged... more

Lewisburg Middle School might have a school resource officer from the Sheriff's Department in a couple of weeks, according to statements from the sheriff and a county commission vote. County commissioners voted 15-2 on Monday for an agreement with the School Board to have a deputy serve as an SRO at LMS. The two no votes were against unbudgeted spending. Sessions Court Judge Steve Bowden found a program to help pay for an SRO... more

Marshall County veterinarians will offer rabies vaccinations at the reduced rate of $8 for the month of April. Tennessee law requires all cats and dogs three months of age and older to be vaccinated against rabies by a licensed veterinarian. There have already been three cases of rabies confirmed in Marshall County this year... more

FARMINGTON -- There's a new barber in this town that's not too far from the Bedford County line but not closer to the Wheel Community east of here. Bruce D'Amico is the barber. He and his wife, Gretchen, opened the County Line Barber Shop just north of White's Store. Jerry White is their landlord. Gretchen runs the tanning salon... more

When Lewisburg firefighters present fire prevention programs this spring, they'll have new tools to help drive their message home. That's because the department received a $1,600 from FM Global's Fire Prevention Grant Program. A check was presented Tuesday to Fire Prevention Officer Mike Barron... more

Publicity for upcoming movies starring Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and The Mighty Thor got me started thinking about the cover prices of the comic books from which such heroes sprang. Readers in the Great Depression got a 64-page comic for one thin dime. When I was the age of my son (that is, 7) my weekly allowance was based on the 12-cent price of a 32-page comic book. As recently as 1988, the average price at the spinner rack was 75 cents... more

A Lewisburg man -- son of a firefighter -- was on trial Monday and Tuesday, accused of setting an unoccupied house on fire. Mitchell J. Ford, 32, of Nashville Highway, is alleged to have started a fire at 603 Old Lane Road just before 1 p.m. Friday, April 23, 2010... more

BERLIN -- They're coming back and they may be in Lewisburg next year. Hundreds of bicyclists -- many who were here last year -- will be peddling their racing bikes in The Hell of the South on Saturday morning. The races starting at the Berlin Fire Hall are modeled after the Paris to Roubaix Spring Classic in France. That race is known as the "Hell of the North" because it's difficult... more

A little more than a week after their two-story house burned to the ground, a Marshall County couple is living in a travel trailer made available to them by a Bedford County friend of their grandsons. Mamie Cochran is convinced the cause of the fire was electrical because a Star of David decoration -- usually only lit at Christmas time -- was glowing as volunteer firefighters battled the blaze on Belfast Farmington Road that Monday morning of March 21... more

A Marshall County woman, who's a communications officer in the White House Situation Room, was back home over the weekend with family, but before returning to Washington, D.C., she planned to see about voting in Lewisburg's election on May 3. Vickie Beard-Segarra, 45, a 1984 graduate of Marshall County High School, maintains her permanent residence here with her mother, Julia Norwood of Barron Road who says, "I want Marshall County to know they have a MCHS graduate who works in the White House."... more

Marshall County veterinarians will offer rabies vaccinations at the reduced rate of $8 for the month of April. Tennessee law requires all cats and dogs three months of age and older to be vaccinated against rabies by a licensed veterinarian. There have already been three cases of rabies confirmed in Marshall County this year... more

Marshall County commissioners voted 15-2 Monday to borrow up to $2.4 million to refinance previous debt with a lower interest rate and borrow money for road repair and related expenses. The resolution increasing the county's debt load replaced a $1 million bond resolution sought by Highway Superintendent Jerry Williams who's explained that without money for maintenance soon, the cost of repairing county roads will be greater... more

A Nolensville woman, now of Chapel Hill, must report to the Marshall County Jail on April 20 to start her 90-day sentence on four traffic convictions. A Marshall Count jury found Tracy Lynn Bell, 33, guilty in February on misdemeanor charges of leaving the scene of an injury accident, failure to notify police of an accident, violation of the open container law and driving under the influence... more

Arrested on warrants for evading arrest, aggravated assault, aggravated burglary, and two counts of domestic assault Arrested and charged with driving under the influence Thefts and vandalism reported Arrested on warrants for burglary and theft over $1.000... more