County commissioners have authorized Roads Superintendent Jerry Williams to spend $270,000 left from a $5 million 2007 bond sale, thereby avoiding a lesser-known requirement when borrowing money from bond buyers. "We're going to do some oil and chipping," Roads Superintendent Jerry Williams said Thursday, naming roads to be repaired: Cherry Corners Road near Cornersville, Polly Adams Road at Belfast, Blue Creek Road off Lynnville Highway, and Reynolds and Hargrove roads north of Chapel Hill... more

Purses, wallets and cell phones were stolen from vehicles parked in Lewisburg Wednesday evening, according to a press release from the Lewisburg Police Department. On Dec. 9, between 6 and 7p.m., several vehicles were burglarized in Lewisburg. The burglaries appear to be related and occurred in parking lots throughout the city. They include:... more

Inoculation against H1N1 influenza starts Wednesday for anyone requesting a shot at the clinic in Lewisburg, the county's health director said Friday. "We've lifted all restrictions, so it's available to anyone who wants to come in and roll up their sleeve," said Jason Lewis, director of public health for Marshall, Giles and Bedford counties... more

A Lewisburg woman has retired after 25 years and seven months with the Tennessee Department of Health and on Friday, she was honored with a reception at the Marshall County public health clinic. Carol Williams started her state career at the department in Lewisburg, so it was seen as only appropriate that the reception be held here where she began her ascent to assistant nursing director for state health department... more

Victims of a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud are being urged to let federal prosecutors and a judge know how they have been impacted by the scam. Those victims were in Shelbyville, but one of the perpetrators is Roger Ritch, founder of Ritch's Building Supply in Lewisburg and the man who sold the city nearly 50 acres last year... more

A deputy sheriff's investigation of men driving from a field last January led to charges of spotlighting deer, drug and weapons offenses that resulted in convictions with guilty verdicts Thursday. Now, awaiting a Jan. 20 sentencing hearing in the Marshall County Jail is Ellis Randall Darnell Jr., 34, formerly of 1566 Springplace Road, one of three men apprehended by Deputy Tony Nichols. Darnell's term could be 11-16 years... more

SHELBYVILLE -- A member of the National Guard who faces charges in Bedford County won't be going to Iraq with the rest of his unit, a judge ruled Thursday. Andy Lynn Wallace, 35, of Nashville Highway, Lewisburg, was indicted last month by the Bedford County grand jury on charges of soliciting and stalking a minor by sending inappropriate requests by text messages to a 16-year-old girl... more

Registration is now open for the 2010 Lewisburg Parks & Recreation Youth Basketball Leagues for boys and girls ages 7-12. Leagues begin Jan. 9. Registration deadline is 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 18. For more information, call Jane Tilford at 359-2482. Signups for Marshall County Youth Baseball and Softball will be held each Saturday in January. They will be held in Lewisburg, Cornersville and Chapel Hill. More information will be released later... more

A Lewisburg police sergeant was overpaid approximately $900 because of a discrepancy between hours worked and hours reported, the city attorney has reported to the City Council. Furthermore, Police Chief Chuck Forbis has told City Manager Eddie Fuller the sergeant's "actions amount to an act of theft," a Class E Felony, causing "substantial doubts concerning his honesty."... more

A young Lewisburg man and another from north Alabama were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct at the Recreation Center recently. Jared C. Robinson, 21, of Franklin Avenue, and Brandon Burns, 18, of Hazel Green, were disobeying rules in the gym by dunking on the basketball goal, and by letting their shorts hang below their waists. The two men refused to stop dunking, refused to pull up their shorts, and then refused to leave when asked to do so by security... more

What follows is the cover memo delivered by Lewisburg City Attorney Bill Haywood to the City Council with regard to his investigation into allegations about the hours worked, reported and paid for by the Police Department to Douglas Alexander while working as a city police sergeant assigned to patrol Lewisburg Middle School as the school resource officer. References are made to attachments that are not included here... more

A Lewisburg man was released from the hospital over the weekend following surgery to close wounds suffered during a robbery Thursday night when his throat was cut, city police report. Cleveland Holder, 52, of 432 1st Avenue North, was "doing well," on Monday when police spoke with him, Detective Sgt. David Henley said, noting Holder's life was saved by his neighbor... more

School board members have been preparing for next week's board meeting at committee meetings last week and Monday. Next Monday, the full board will hear from the policy committee about their efforts to merge the recently rediscovered goals from 2000 that deal with the hiring of minority staff and the use of minority-owned suppliers with the present board's stated goals and mission statement... more

Herbert Frank Davis, 94, died Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, at NHC Oakwood. Mr. Davis was educated in the Park Station school system and became a member of Mount Teamer P.B. Church at an early age. He attended Hopewell A.M.E. Church until his health failed. He was retired from Fountain Creek Mills, Nora Mills, and the City of Lewisburg... more

There will be a benefit chili supper and auction 5 p.m. Friday at the Cornersville High School cafeteria for to cover the funeral expenses of Alexia Brooke Odum. There will be a live band from 6-7 p.m. and an auction from 7-8. more

Lewisburg's City Council voted 3-2 on Tuesday against firing a police sergeant for allegedly filing work time records that led to overpayment of $850, and now his reimbursement is through installment payments. With a standing room only audience at City Hall, the Council conducted three votes on what to do in response to City Attorney Bill Haywood's investigation and report on Sgt. Douglas Alexander's time sheets and work hours... more

Shelby Stinnett always knew what her destiny was sitting in the dugout at the age of 10 with the Forrest Lady Rocket softball team at the state tournament in Chattanooga in 2002. She idolized the Lady Rockets and wanted to be one. Ann Marie Odum, Danielle Hooper, Mahiya Unussee, Leigh Beasley, and the rest of that team became the etching tools, engraving the Lady Rocket lore into her softball soul... more

December is here and it is time to think about Christmas and all the doings going on during this special time of year. Santa Claus is making an evening stop in Lynnville again this year for the 25th Annual Lynnville Christmas Parade that comes with lights... more

When I was a Mass Communications major at MTSU, my aspiration was to be the next Phil Donahue. For various reasons, that didn't happen. Maybe I was just dreaming too small. Oprah Winfrey came along and eclipsed everything Donahue ever accomplished. And now, after 25 years, she is giving up the centerpiece of her empire, the syndicated "Oprah Winfrey Show," to concentrate on launching cable's Oprah Winfrey Network... more

Lewisburg's disgraced dogcatcher has agreed to serve two years of supervised probation as a result of his arrest on charges of theft and official misconduct. Neal Owens, 36, of Belfast, the former animal control officer who took an English bulldog home in hopes of selling it for his own profit, was granted a pretrial diversion by the District Attorney's Office and Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler... more