Marshall County residents are coping with Sunday night's big snowstorm, like other Middle Tennesseans who stayed home because schools were closed, they couldn't get out anyway, or just common sense. As a result, many folks just walked around their neighborhoods, enjoyed the sights, made snowmen and, in many respects, just played in the snow that packed well for snowballs, and offered some traction for those who did have to travel... more

CHAPEL HILL -- The community center here looks like a church because that's what it's been and it's still serving as a fellowship hall, complete with meeting room, kitchen, exercise machines and a pool table. Dozens of people attended the center's open house Friday at 206 Depot St. where they celebrated community cooperation that was obvious among town leaders, the Lions Club, county officials and the public at large... more

Marshall County schools remain in "good standing" as far as federal No Child Left Behind requirements are concerned, in spite of more stringent standards applied to last year's testing, as the state struggles to catch up to the nation in academic achievement... more

College educated applicants with relevant experience and an eager attitude impressed Lewisburg councilmen Friday evening when city manager interviews took less than half the time anticipated. "Maybe we ought to schedule them tighter" together, Mayor Barbara Woods said after the second of two interviews -- the first of nine such question-and-answer conversations with people who've applied to succeed retired City Manager Eddie Fuller... more

Repercussions from the sale of Cornersville's water and sewer system to Lewisburg continue to be felt in the small town at the south end of the county. The sewer system was the topic of Robert Pugh's comments during Thursday's monthly meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen. ... more

Girl Scout Cookies will be sold in Marshall County soon. The Cookie Program helps Scouts learn decision making, goal setting, money management, people skills, and business ethics. For more information call 800-395-5318, or call Cheryl Bartusch, Cookie Manager, at 364-2043. Cookies can also be purchased and donated to a Gift of Caring project... more

SHELBYVILLE -- A celebrated Tennessee Walking Horse trainer was arrested last week on charges of sex crimes against three girls and three days later his license was suspended by the Walking Horse Trainers Association. J.W. "Dick" Peebles, 61, of Shelbyville, is scheduled for an appearance in Bedford County General Sessions Court on Jan. ... more

With a salary range of $25,000 to $45,000, one of two significant jobs open at Lewisburg City Hall demands an awareness of the Clean Water Act, state law and city code. The promotion of Greg Lowe, the city's new economic development director, created the opening. Lowe was hired as codes officer several years ago. Stormwater management was added to his duties... more

At about midnight on New Year's Eve, city police encountered two couples in separate locations with their own approach to the start of 2011. Officer Amanda Newcomb found Nathanial L. Talley, 22, of Antioch passed out in the driver's seat of a car stopped in the intersection of East Commerce Street and Ellington Parkway. ... more

Marshall County schools have announced Thursday classes have been cancelled. more

The Lewisburg-based manufacturer of pet furniture and recreational seating plans to double its staff if it lands an agreement with the City Council and buys the old Sanford pencil factory property as planned. It could mean 100 more jobs here at Ace Bayou Corp. that operates from two buildings on Higgs Road in the city industrial park, according to plant manager Will Wilson who described plans outlined by a company owner to Lewisburg's Industrial Development Board on Monday... more

CHAPEL HILL -- A 13-year-old Marshall County boy who's in the seventh grade at Forrest School is in a movie that's to be shown at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Utah later this month. Austin Vickers, son of Chantelle and Mitchell Vickers of Laws Hill, appears in unpaid roles for two other films and he's been paid some $2,500 for his work in ads and promotional brochures for attractions at Pigeon Forge... more

The Petersburg Post Office letter carrier -- a prime suspect in a federal investigation into mail theft -- is in "a non-pay status," according to a Postal Service spokeswoman and Marshall County's Veterans Service officer says vets are angry. "I've had some guys come in here this morning about someone stealing a veteran's medicine," Veterans Service Officer Billy Hill said Wednesday after a report came out about medicine being substituted in a VA medical center pharmacy package before delivery through the mail.. ... more

A Lewisburg man was arrested Tuesday morning when he tried to get a forged prescription filled at a local pharmacy. The pharmacist called police because of suspicion that the prescription Donald Scarfone Jr., 43, presented for filling had been forged, according to a police report... more

Lewisburg city councilmen have come to grips with Tennessee's requirement for open meetings and their pending interviews with nine applicants for the job of city manager. They know they can't bar anyone from attending their meetings when interviews are conducted, but there is at least the implication that applicants who watch interviews before they're interviewed could be seen as circumventing the council's desire for fairness and equal treatment of applicants... more

James Samuel "Sonny" Glasscock, 78, of the Halls Mill Community of Bedford County, died Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Mr. Glasscock was born in Bedford County and was a son of the late William Porter and Zelma Stephenson Glasscock. He served in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict and was a self-employed plumber and electrician. Mr. Glasscock was a member of Crowells Chapel Lutheran Church... more

Mary Martin Scott Wilson, 89, a resident of Lewisburg, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, at NHC-Lewisburg. A native of Fayetteville, Mrs. Wilson was a retired agent with Nationwide Insurance Company and a member of First Baptist Church of Lewisburg... more

The January CHYFL board meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 12, at the Chapel Hill Fire Hall. This meeting is open to the public. Girl Scout Cookies will be sold in Marshall County soon. The Cookie Program helps Scouts learn decision making, goal setting, money management, people skills, and business ethics. For more information call 800-395-5318, or call Cheryl Bartusch, Cookie Manager, at 364-2043. Cookies can also be purchased and donated to a Gift of Caring project... more

This is the time of year for resolutions. Health-related and money-related resolutions top the list each year. The sad part is most will be broken within a few weeks. According to surveys, more than 80 percent of New Year's resolutions will be broken by Valentine's Day... more

Other than a tax agreement request for a Lewisburg-based manufacturer, city councilmen face what would otherwise appear to be a routine agenda for its meeting Tuesday when another step is to be completed on another manufacturer's request. Brother's Fine Foods production of salsa relies on shipments of tomatoes and its owner reports he can become more profitable if the tomatoes come here by train instead of truck. ... more