Lewisburg's Business Park on Mooresville Highway has become one of a few sites in South Central Tennessee to be promoted as being suitable to recruit a data center. The Tennessee Valley Authority and Deloitte Consulting have been looking for places in the Tennessee Valley that are marketable as good locations for data centers, according to Greg Lowe, the city's industrial development director... more

A Lewisburg man was indicted on charges of aggravated statutory rape at the grand jury's October meeting last week. Joshua David McBurnett, 32, of Ruby Road, received an eight-count indictment. According to documents in the case file, he began abusing his victim in 2006, and last had contact with her in September 2010, when she was 16 years old... more

Lewisburg's councilmen are scheduled on Tuesday to consider the idea of hiring a company that provides interim city managers until a more permanent successor can be hired since the Oct. 30 retirement of Eddie Fuller. A brochure issued by Interim Public Management of Fountain Heights, Ariz., says IPM will "provide two credentialed managers for each engagement at the price of one" because one interim manager can't do it all" for municipalities in transition... more

While researching the upcoming sesquicentennial of the beginning of the War Between The States, I became aware that more than one Facebook page carries the congenial theme "The South lost the Civil War. Get over it." What a great bedside manner! Don't expect these cranky Yankees to donate anything to breast cancer research. ("Your mother lost the battle. Get over it.")... more

Halloween is over for one more year. I hope no one was spooked too bad by ghosts and goblins. Now we have 3 1/2 weeks untill Thanksgiving, then a month before Christmas and another week until the new year. YIKES. But wait. Let's do one holiday at a time... more

Christmas is just around the corner and so is the traditional Lewisburg Rotary Club Christmas Parade. The theme for this year's parade is "A Hometown Christmas." It's the small town American dream for beautiful floats and car decorations. Any business, individual, civic group, school or family that wants to participate may contact Peggy Hubbard at (931) 359-3998 or email her at peggy@peggyhubbard.com for more information... more

In recognition of America Recycles Day, the Marshall County Solid Waste Department is inviting public officials to the county recycling sort line where they will be asked to try their hand at separating plastic, metal and paper. more

Marshall County voters on Tuesday contributed to the re-election of state Sen. Bill Ketron (R-Murfreesboro) over Columbia Councilwoman Debbie Matthews, the Democratic nominee. Unofficial final results in Marshall County show Ketron had a better than 2-1 victory over his rival from Maury County. ... more

State Rep. Eddie Bass (D-Prospect) was re-elected Tuesday in a close race with former Marshall County Commission Chairman Billy Spivey, the Republican challenger in a three-man race. Bass won with 8,210 over Spivey's total of 7,171, for a margin of 1,039, according to unofficial results. Roop, the Independent candidate trailed with 330 votes that reveals his slice of the votes at two per cent. Bass won with 52 percent to 46 percent, or a six percent point margin... more

State Sen. Diane Black's 6th District victory Tuesday helped Republicans gain control of Tennessee's congressional delegation for the first time in nearly a decade. With 26 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night, Black had 43,678 votes, or 67 percent of the vote, to Brett Carter's 18,820, or 29 percent. In Marshall County, Black received 4,680 votes, or 64.3 percent of the votes over Carter's 2,300 votes, or 31.6 percent of the votes here... more

A 4-H ATV safety course will be offered on Saturday, Nov. 20. The fast-paced, half-day, hands-on training session includes pre-ride inspection, starting and stopping, quick turns, hill riding, emergency stopping and swerving, and riding over obstacles. ... more

CORNERSVILLE --The high school here was well represented on Thursday last week by four juniors selected from a history class to ask questions during the Marshall County Tribune's political debate for candidates campaigning to represent Marshall and Giles counties in the state House... more

Marshall County voters voted overwhelmingly for a constitutional amendment to make hunting and fishing a right instead of a privilege. In order to pass Tuesday, it needed to receive a number surpassing half the votes cast in the governor's race, plus one... more

Voter turnout for the midterm Congressional election and two state legislative races drew 7,637 Marshall County voters to the polls, including the 3,429 voters who cast early or absentee ballots. That total voter turnout of nearly 7,640 votes is nearly 43 percent of the more than 17,000 registered voters in Marshall County. Throughout the two-week early voting period, all ballots were cast at election headquarters in Lewisburg... more

Replacement school buses and vans are recommended by members of the Marshall County School Board who met Monday night to prepare for next week's meeting of the board. Also Monday, another School Board committee considered its recommendation to abolish a policy on cheating as established by a former schools director. The board meets next Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Office on Jones Circle... more

A guilty verdict was returned after dark Thursday in the trial of a Lewisburg man accused of rape and aggravated kidnapping. A jury of five men and seven women deliberated for nearly an hour before finding Owen Presley, 67, guilty on all eight counts of the indictment. Presley is to be sentenced on Dec. 7... more

Thefts and vandalism reported: Served with a warrant for violation of bond conditions while at Lewisburg City Court: Arrested and charged with aggravated assault: Turned himself in on a warrant for aggravated domestic assault: Arrested and charged with domestic assault:... more

NASHVILLE - Centerstone, a not-for-profit organization providing mental health and addiction services, has announced that three employees were recognized a conference in Pennsylvania for their work in Tennessee. more

CORNERSVILLE -- From soda pop for school funding and jobs to how things work and allegations of half-truths in advertising, three men running for the state House seat for Marshall and Giles counties faced 140 people Thursday night in the Cornersville High School auditorium. more

Having received a unanimous recommendation to promote Lewisburg's stormwater manager to be the city's industrial recruiter, the outgoing city manager on Thursday promoted a local man who started working for the city as codes enforcement officer. Greg Lowe, 41, was promoted by City Manager Eddie Fuller whose retirement officially begins this afternoon, although he's agreed to be a consultant for the city as officials search for a successor. Fuller met with Lowe yesterday about his new duties... more