Between 2,000 and 3,000 customers of Lewisburg Electric Service were without power for about half an hour mid-day Monday and LES continued to look for the cause on Tuesday when the general manager said they may never know why service was interrupted... more

Marshall County probably ought to keep the policy it has on student fundraisers. That's what the Tennessee School Boards Association's lawyer told a member of the board here. It's up to the school board to decide whether a fundraising activity is permissible, according to the current policy. Officials note a difference between raising money for charity and school needs... more

CATALPA COOKING SWEET AND SOUR MEATBALLS 1 pound ground beef 1/3 cup evaporated milk 1 package (1.25 oz.) dry onion soup mix 2 cups catsup 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon dry mustard Combine first three ingredients, mix well. Shape into 1-inch meatballs. Place meatballs on a lightly greased broiler pan. Broil 5 inches from heat about 10 minutes, turning after 5 minutes. Drain well on paper towels... more

Hello everyone; glad to be back with you. I am finally getting back on schedule. We are still making it slowly but surely here. Sheila and her girls carried us to visit Kasey and baby Mason last Thursday. Kasey wants to send a "Thank You" to all who gave her gifts, cards, and diapers, etc. at her baby shower and afterwards. They are doing well and we hope they will soon come down for everyone to meet Mason... more

The Star Spangled Banner Day Camp will be held from June 14 to 18, from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. daily. Join the fun for crafts, games, songs, outdoor skills, nature activities, water play and much more. For more information, contact Jody Woods at 490-8660. Girl Scouts receive a discount on the camp fee... more

In addition to sentencing Tiffany Davis, Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler accepted guilty pleas and imposed sentences last week on Michael J. Stinnett, Wesley David Cloud, Aureliano Baltazar, John Justin McCall, and Jeremy Lee Ross. The victim, who died at the scene of the wreck on Interstate 65 near Exit 27, was his uncle, Jose Baltazar, 22. ... more

Lewisburg councilmen sought clarification Tuesday on the validity of a handshake agreement between the city attorney and a former police chief's lawyer and on Monday he's returning to street patrol. "We're getting out of the School Resource Officer program," City Manager Eddie Fuller said Thursday afternoon. ... more

The moderator for the Marshall County Tribune's election debate has changed. Long time banker and local public figure as a master of ceremonies and civic leader Barry White, senior trust officer for First Farmers Bank, has succeeded Bob Binkley as moderator for the newspaper-sponsored election debate that's to include candidates for sheriff and county mayor... more

As Marshall County commissioners are asking department leaders to reduce operating costs to bring them in line with revenues, budget committeemen have considered hiring a company to send out bills for the county-owned ambulance service. Bill Harrod, a representative from Paducah, Ky.-based Medical Accounts Receivable Services on Tuesday explained that MARS would provide rugged laptop computers for paramedics and emergency medical technicians to use when collecting information about a patient as they travel in an ambulance.. ... more

An old elementary school friend and I were talking recently and during the conversation, he commented about how different my family life was when we were children than his. To put it simply, he said, "You forget, my family was very poor." I laughed when he told me this, because my family was poor too. ... more

Columbia Police are asking for the public's help as the department continues to look for a man who's been missing nearly three weeks. Scott Ruckholdt, 48, of Columbia was last seen on May 16 at about 9 p.m. when he was walking away from a relative's house on Granada Drive, police said... more

Saturday, June 5, was a great day in Lynnville for all the alumni of the Robert B. Jones High School Tigers. Alumni started arriving at 10 a.m. at the Lynnville Municipal Building to talk and tell old stories about Jones High and Lynnville and to register. ... more

Lewisburg is one of 80 prospective locations for a data center, according to the city's industrial development director. Speaking to Lewisburg's Industrial Development Board on Monday, Industrial Development Director Terry Wallace reminded IDB members of discussions with the Tennessee Valley Authority... more

Fire chiefs in Marshall County have started taking the temperature of the people they serve to see if they're as hot as firefighters over a planned 39 percent cut to appropriations for their equipment and operating budgets. "I would like to have every fire truck driven around the Courthouse square" to protest, said Fire Chiefs president Jimmy Flowers of the Mooresville Fire Department. "I'm tempted to not go to the Fourth of July parade. I can't see paying for gas for trucks in a parade."... more

A Lewisburg woman surrendered herself to city police on Wednesday, knowing a detective had a warrant charging her with soliciting sexual exploitation of two foster children under her care. Crystal Danielle Reeves, 23, who was living in a house on West End Avenue North, was arrested by Lewisburg Police Detective Santiago McKlean who had her booked at the Marshall County Jail where she was released on $16,000 bond... more

Discussion of next year's budget is sure to consume a lot of time at next Monday's school board meeting. The gap between budgeted expenditures and estimated revenue is currently $748,000, according … more

Admit it. When the obituaries for pioneering broadcaster Art Linkletter appeared, you probably gasped, "I thought he was already dead!" Similarly, when the Chicago Tribune reported that the final "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip would appear June 13 (just a couple of months shy of the feature's 86th anniversary), readers were surprised to learn the strip still existed. An entire generation knows Annie just as the star of a Broadway musical... more

Helen Thomas, the now-former columnist for Hearst newspapers, is an easy target. She's been in the crosshairs of my ire on more than one occasion. She's as leftist as they come. At 89-years-old and the longest-serving member of the White House press corps she has seen presidents come and go since Eisenhower... more

Job applications will be accepted at Lewisburg Career Center, starting Monday, June 14, for a variety of flood assistance jobs. more

A Lewisburg woman's children will be adults by the time she gets out of prison, according to the sentence imposed by Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler last week. Tiffany Tena Davis, 33, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. As a "career" offender, Davis must serve 60 percent of her sentence, or 18 years, before she is eligible for parole. This sentence does not start until Davis completes a previous sentence... more