Recessionary conditions continue to badger town and county budgets with the latest example of the money squeeze arising during this month's meeting of the Chapel Hill Board of Mayor and Aldermen. Sheriff Norman Dalton has started charging Chapel Hill $50 per month for access to computer-based information such as the name of the owner of a vehicle and the criminal record of someone with a driver's license... more

Marshall County elementary school students will soon be using calculators in the classroom and during state tests, the county school board was told this month. Calculators are already being used in surrounding counties' classrooms, elementary instruction supervisor Vylatte Gooch told board members during their Dec. 16 meeting... more

The week of New Year, the Marshall County Convenience Centers will be open every day, including Wednesday, from 7 to 11 a.m. and 2 to 6 p.m. They will be closed on Saturday, Jan. 1. 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. ... more

To the Editor: Is more money stolen with a pencil, and threats of water service being cut off if not paid, happening right before local city officials, local and state law enforcement's eyes each month? Is that happening, against Lewisburg's law, the Lewisburg City Charter or even the Lewisburg city sewer ordinances? (Read page 17.) Should not the city mayor, city council, city police, and state attorney general act at once to investigate, arrest, punish and stop those laws being broken? Should they refund back to its rightful owners the pencil-stolen money, as some see it, taken under threat of much needed water service being cut off?. ... more

Copper was stolen from a cell phone tower near the south end of the county before Christmas. Chad Whitaker, an employee of Verizon Wireless, reported to the Marshall County Sheriff's Department that between Dec. 14 and 22, someone stole two two-hole copper lugs, one three-foot copper ground bar and approximately 40 feet of 10.2 copper ground wire from the Verizon tower on Charlie Thomas Road. Whitaker told deputies the damage would cost at least $2,000 to fix... more

A Marshall County man is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of burglars who took his tools last Saturday morning near Holt's Corner. "The sad part of this is that it is somebody who knew exactly where they were at," Mike Butler said of the 4-7 a.m. crime on Dec. 18... more

Guilty pleas from several defendants were accepted during the final Circuit Court session before the Christmas holidays. Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler spent a full day on the bench. In addition to accepting guilty pleas, he sentenced two men who had been found guilty by juries earlier this fall, and conducted arraignments for defendants indicted by the grand jury... more

A man who was convicted last year on rape and other charges by a Marshall County jury this month lost in his challenge of his conviction and the length of his sentence. David C. Bates, 33, was … more

An accidental shooting endangered a child and spoiled Christmas for two Marshall County men last week. Marshall County Sheriff's Department Deputy Matt Owens was dispatched to an address on Raylee Drive, Chapel Hill, just after 1 a.m. Dec. 24. The homeowner, Mitchell West, told Owens he and his friend Nolan Garcia had been wrestling, and "once they began to struggle with the weapon it discharged and struck Nolan in the lower abdomen and exited through the lower back," Owens wrote in his report... more

Tennessee's commissioner of human services has responded to the state comptroller of the treasury who last week took the social service agency to task for allowing federal stimulus money to be "wasted or misspent." "I am puzzled by your letter of Dec. 20," Human Services Commissioner Virginia Lodge wrote to Comptroller Justin P. Wilson shortly after his office issued press releases when he wrote to her about money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act... more

The three words that members of my generation never thought we'd hear: "aging baby boomers." But the first boomers (defined by the United States Census Bureau as individuals born between 1946 and 1964) will be turning 65 on January 1, beginning the inexorable shift of the "Me Generation" to the "Bathe Me Generation."... more

Lewisburg Police are investigating a stabbing near the shopping center at the bypass and Nashville Highway on Tuesday afternoon when a Lewisburg man suffered injuries to his left leg and hand. more

NASHVILLE -- Marshall County's unemployment rate increased nearly one percent in November, according to the state's Labor and Workforce Development Department. more

A Marshall County man is offering a $1,000 reward for burglars who took his tools last Saturday morning near Holt's Corner. "The sad part of this is that it is somebody who knew exactly where they were at," Mike Butler said of the 4-7 a.m. crime on Dec. 18. more

A stormy school board discussion has led to a verbal reprimand by the panel to the director of schools. The 6-2 vote Thursday last week reprimanded Roy Dukes in connection with a state audit and the refund of federal money. Reached by telephone Tuesday, Dukes refused to discuss his reaction, saying he had "no comment."... more

Federal stimulus money spent on home weatherization improvements for low-income-families is being wasted or misspent, according to Tennessee's Comptroller of the Treasury. Most of the egregious waste appears to be in big cities. However, Blake Fontenay, spokesman for Comptroller Justin P. Wilson said Tuesday that problems were found in all 18 parts of the state where non-profit agencies administer the federal money... more

By Karen Hall Staff Writer One of the newest companies in Lewisburg is also one of the oldest, and is poised ready to grow over the next few years. The company is Cosmolab, only seven months old in its current form, but firmly rooted in its 101-year-old heritage that began with the Red Cedar Pencil Company... more

In this Christian community, Marshall County residents are celebrating the birth of the baby Jesus who is worshiped as Lord, savior and one who became a teacher of a life everlasting. Another obvious fact facing residents and their leaders are the continued recessionary conditions that have some families realigning a way of life, frequently in search of survival where previously it was the pursuit of happiness... more

The week of Christmas, the Marshall County Convenience Centers will be open Wednesday and Thursday from 7 to 11 a.m. and 2 to 6 p.m. They will be open Friday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. They will be closed on Saturday, Dec. 25. The week of New Year, the Marshall County Convenience Centers will be open every day, including Wednesday, from 7 to 11 a.m. and 2 to 6 p.m. They will be closed on Saturday, Jan. 1... more

Lewisburg's Water and Wastewater Board members on Thursday agreed to pursue billing cost savings and maintained their position on sewer rates when a customer pressed his point again on how fees for that service are calculated. The Town of Cornersville has continued to provide billing services for the utilities after Lewisburg's Water and Sewer Department bought the system that was financially unstable in the wake of the town administrator's arrest, conviction and imprisonment... more