Striking differences are evident in how two school board members rated the Marshall County director of schools. Even the most cursory examination of their scores of Roy Dukes reveals that board members Ann Tears and Donnie Moses see him in completely different lights... more

NASHVILLE -- Waste Management Inc.'s appeal hearing -- challenging state environmental regulators' decision against expansion of Cedar Ridge Landfill -- was delayed Tuesday, apparently by more than three months. "The second week in May seems to be the most likely time," Waste Management Attorney John P. Williams said Tuesday morning about when the Solid Waste Disposal Control Board might hold a hearing that is conducted like a trial... more

Marshall County AYSO Soccer sign-ups will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, and from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6, in the Lewisburg Recreation Center Main Lobby. Participants must be four years old by March 31, 2011. In an effort to extend the outreach of the Tennessee Career Center, the Marshall County Memorial Library and the TN Career Center in Lewisburg have established a "Career Corner" in the library. ... more

Marshall County's unemployment went down by half a percentage point from November to December, placing it third highest in the state, a decline in that ranking of joblessness. Reported as 16.2 percent by Lewisburg councilmen during recent City Hall meetings, the rate for November -- as reported by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development -- was 16.1 percent. The department reported Thursday it was 15.6 percent last month... more

After a nail-biting round of tiebreaker questions, Ivy Donley emerged as the winner at Lewisburg Middle School's 8th Annual Geography Bee. Donley, an 8th grader, received a $100 savings bond from First Commerce Bank, and may now compete at the state level, just as she did after winning the Bee last year... more

A Murfreesboro-based engineering firm is being hired by Marshall County to provide countywide planning services and zoning advice to county planning commissioners, according to a unanimous vote by county commissioners at their recent monthly meeting... more

Thefts reported Arrested and charged with shoplifting from Dollar General Market Arrested and charged with driving under the influence Arrested and charged with driving on a suspended license Arrested and charged with driving on a revoked license Arrested on a warrant for simple possession of marijuana... more

Jury selection was scheduled to start this morning in the trial of a Nolensville woman who, according to court records, allegedly crashed her Jeep Cherokee in Marshall County and then fled the scene … more

CHAPEL HILL -- Town water service customers this month may start making installment payments to their Air Evac helicopter ambulance service subscriptions by adding $5 to their monthly utility bills. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen unanimously voted in December to endorse the arrangement and permit collection of helicopter ambulance service fees on the town's monthly billing system. Four customers have signed up for the installment plan... more

SHELBYVILLE -- The temporary closure of Cedar Ridge Landfill at Lewisburg has prompted Bedford County to join a regional Inter-local Solid Waste Authority with Lincoln, Giles and Franklin counties and Tullahoma. Trash from Bedford County convenience centers used to be trucked to Cedar Ridge, owned by Waste Management, which would still accept it for $30 per ton at a Maury County transfer station. Bedford had been paying $23.24 per ton at Cedar Ridge... more

A Saturday night shooting death at a Seventh Avenue South apartment house is being investigated by Lewisburg Police as a homicide. more

Marshall County's unemployment went down by half a percentage point from November to December, placing it third highest in the state, a decline in that ranking of joblessness more

Citizens who want to address the school board may soon have to give two more days' notice, according to policy committee discussion Monday night. Administrative assistant Rhonda Poole suggested the change so all requests could be included in the "Board Book" mailed out to board members before each monthly meeting... more

Lewisburg's immediate past industrial development director has complained to state and federal officials that age discrimination was a factor when he was discharged last summer. "I was never disciplined for performance or behavioral issues during my tenure" with the city, Terry Wallace's complaint states to the federal office in Nashville. "I believe I have been discriminated against based on my age."... more

A former Marshall County Commissio n chairman has asked to be considered as a candidate for the school board when county commissioners vote late next month. Cornersville dairy farmer Sam Smith sent an e-mail to County Mayor Joe Boyd Liggett on Jan. 20, indicating that he wants to finish Dee Dee Owens' term as a 4th District school board member... more

A City Hall committee is taking steps toward altering the timing of two locally owned traffic lights, partly because traffic patterns have changed and the red lights have delayed motorists. A set of lights at the uneve n intersection of 2nd Avenue North and College Street might be re-set to flash a yellow caution light to motorists on Second Avenue and a blinking red stop light for drivers on College Street... more

A Marshall County man with severe injuries from a one-car crash eight years ago is doing his best on the road to recovery and re-entry into daily life, including his travels in town on a motorized wheelchair. Douglas James Van Orden Jr., 41, of Lewisburg spoke openly last week about what happened to him just before and in the years after his Saturn slammed into a tree just off the Belfast-Farmington Road on Feb. 28, 2003... more

Marshall County AYSO Soccer sign-ups will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, Jan. 29 and Feb. 5, and from 2 to 4 p.m. Sundays, Jan. 30 and Feb. 6, in the Lewisburg Recreation Center Main Lobby. Participants must be four years old by March 31, 2011... more

Lewisburg Water and Wastewater Department employees anticipated continuing their door-to-door survey of homes in a broad area of the western part of the city so federal money may subsidize sewer repairs. Questionnaires might have been completed by now had it not been for the snow, utility Superintendent Kenneth Carr said Wednesday, but because of an early February deadline for a grant application, "We will probably have to work Saturday... more

To the Editor: I am writing concerning the sewer rates charged by the Lewisburg Water and Wastewater Department to individuals who are not hooked on to the sewer system. I am not hooked on to the sewer, but I am charged a sewer fee each month. In speaking with my neighbors, who are not connected to the sewer, I have discovered that we are being charged varying rates for the sewer fee each month. ... more