FRIED PEACH PIES Take one package (about 8 oz.) of dried peaches, apples, or apricots, and soak fruit in water to cover for several hours or overnight. Cook the fruit in the water in which … more

The Bethbirei Presbyterian Church is on the eve of celebrating its bicentennial, and the congregation couldn't be more pleased and proud. As church member and former secretary, Pauline Perryman once boasted, "If we stick around until 2010, we will be celebrating 200 years as a church."... more

Hello again to all my readers. Seems like we have had a touch of Locust Winter this past weekend. With all the maple "helicopters" flying, it looks like it has snowed around our house. We had a pretty good crowd at church last Sunday. We were glad to have Evan Watson with us. We miss his family worshipping with us now and are glad to have any of them come when they can... more

A local club is being formed for the purpose of promoting beekeeping. Anyone in Marshall, Maury, Bedford and adjoining counties who is interested is welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served. The first meeting is scheduled at 6:30 p.m Tuesday, June 1, at the Fire Hall in Chapel Hill. For more information e-mail Jim Garrison at jimg1850@live.com... more

More than 81 percent of 175 jobs funded with government money were filled during the Job Fair at the Lewisburg Recreation Center on Tuesday. And more jobs are to be filled, according to Tia Anderson, project manager at the state Career Center in Lewisburg where she said on Thursday, "A lot of employers have to wait for background checks."... more

From charter to chalk, the Lewisburg Downtown Alliance continued to lay plans Tuesday night on how to draw visitors and businesses to the Courthouse Square. The group met in the Corner Café and reached a consensus that members should capitalize on the String Fling music show to be held in Rock Creek Park on May 15, and monthly Cruise In car shows starting May 28 on the Square... more

Digital video recordings of Lewisburg City Council meetings are to start May 11 because of a vote last week by the Council that's to be displayed on the city's Internet Web site. "Do we get make-up people?" Mayor Barbara Woods asked playfully as she started discussion on the subject raised by Councilman Ronald McRady who explained why he brought it up... more

A new business on Lewisburg's public square has been advised of a city restriction after the businessman invested money in his business plan. A sign at the south side of the square on the door of Fun World tells the story: "The City of Lewisburg has advised us that if you are under 15 years of age you cannot enter the arcade without written consent of a parent of guardian, per city manager... more

One write-in candidate for the Marshall County School Board has asked the Election Commission to count paper ballots cast for his election, thereby almost assuring him a seat on that panel in September. The candidate is Robert L. "R.L." Williams, a former county commissioner who's served on the county Budget Committee, and who's also been Lewisburg's stormwater coordinator as the city moved toward compliance with the Clean Water Act... more

Two developments in local elections crossed the news desk this week here on the south side of Lewisburg's public square. First, a caller suggested that what's sometimes called the talking rock be moved from Berlin Spring to the Courthouse lawn so candidates could again stand there and deliver a stump speech. Since yesterday was the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, it only seems right to use a rock instead of chopping a tree down so a politician would have a stump to stand on... more

Charlie Clay "Yark" Rogers Jr., 85, of Normandy, formerly of the Wheel Community, died Tuesday, April 20, 2010, at the Life Care Center of Tullahoma after an extended illness. Mr. Rogers was a native of Bedford County. He served in the Army Air Force during World War II. He was a long-time member of the Bedford County Board of Commissioners, and owned and operated the Rogers Grocery in Wheel for many years. Mr. Rogers was a member of Shiloh United Methodist Church... more

Marshall County school board members got some good news about students' progress and great strides by the school system in general. The Chapel Hill Lions Club, through its non-profit dictionary project, will be giving a dictionary to every third grader at Chapel Hill Elementary School. Nearly 132 have been provided this year... more

The Marshall County's Budget and Emergency Management committees voted Monday to have the department's director examine volunteer fire departments and make a recommendation regarding volunteer services' qualification for county funding. Commissioner Seth Warf, chairman of the EMA committee, reported allegations have been brought to commissioners that South Marshall Volunteer Fire Department has been dispatched 10 times, but went out once and that's developed questions including whether there are guidelines for county funding.. ... more

A retaining wall at Cornersville High School's baseball field hasn't been replaced, even though the school board approved a bid for the work at its March meeting, and the elected leaders apparently thought the contractor would start immediately. Board members agreed they wanted the unsafe, old wall, made from cross ties and rebar, to be replaced with a safe, concrete structure as soon as possible. ... more

CHAPEL HILL - Residents of two homes fronting Chester Avenue repaired the road to keep postal service, but that was done between two meetings of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen. Last month, Enos Davis asked the city for help and while he didn't go back to Town Hall as requested, Town Administrator Mike Hatten took some steps for the municipality and explained what he'd done at this month's meeting of the board... more

At its annual Honors Day Luncheon in Tuscaloosa the University of Alabama College of Continuing Studies awarded The Jack Hatmaker Memorial Scholarship to Rhonda Hall, a sophomore from Chapel Hill who is majoring in General Business. Middle Tennessee Spay and Neuter Clinic, a 501(c)(3), is open every Thursday from 7:30 a.m. ... more

A West Church Street resident has asked the City Council to stop CSX trains from disrupting her neighborhood, nearby businesses and possibly delaying emergency vehicles. CSX contracts with a business to repair tracks and related railroad right of way facilities, but the crew parks its equipment-laden trains on the tracks behind Funtime Bowl West Commerce Street... more

A student at Columbia State Community College apparently fainted on campus Friday and, given the leak of carbon monoxide eight days earlier, campus leaders took no chances and evacuated the Ellington Parkway building. "To the best of our knowledge, a student at our Lewisburg campus building fainted..." college spokesman Paul Hickey said. ... more

Nearly 150 people were in line before 9 a.m. waiting for the Job Fair to start at Lewisburg's Recreation Center on Tuesday morning and within about half an hour more than 50 people joined the line. By 12:30 p.m., 386 had signed in at the Rec Center to apply for jobs... more

A Marshall County School Board member and a central office employee are at loggerheads over an email she sent and which he dislikes. The email says support personnel pay and benefits may suffer budget cuts while the board member is a "big supporter" of the certified professionals... more