Schools alter transfer policy Director of schools Stan Curtis would like Marshall County parents to be aware of the policy the school board has approved which addresses student assignment within the classroom and student transfers within the school system... more

In the month since residents around Poteet Road asked who would be cleaning creek water downstream from Vickery Spring, Waste Management Inc. has installed a pump and pipes that carry the water to a city sewer. "They came down and used my electricity and pumped the water," Robert Garza of Poteet Road said Wednesday morning of Waste Management, the company that runs Cedar Ridge Landfill just north of his home, the one with a backyard deck and swimming pool across Mooresville Pike from the landfill's driveway.. ... more

Marshall County commissioners on Monday: hired a school board member to mow the courthouse lawn; decided to re-bid janitorial services; and awarded a pest control service. School Board member Curt Denton's lawn care service was deemed "the low bidder" for the building maintenance agreement for mowing services, according to the hiring resolution that was unanimously approved... more

Marshall County Budget Committee members continue to review spending plans and make cuts of a few thousand dollars here and there in a general fund of about $35 million. "We're sort of desperate," Commissioner Mickey King, chairman of the committee, told Bob Hopkins, director of the county's Emergency Management Agency, during another cutting session on Wednesday... more

Sentences were passed last week on two Marshall County residents who pleaded guilty to charges against them, and also on a man who had a jury trial. Brittany L. West, 21, of 5th Avenue North pleaded guilty to prescription fraud. West confessed to Lewisburg Police Department Officer Denise Savage that she had modified a prescription on April 14 this year, changing the number of hydrocodone pills on it from four to 41. ... more

On advice from their attorney, Marshall County commissioners on Monday decided to refrain from electing two new members of the Ethics Committee which this month has received its third complaint. Strict adherence to the state public meetings law calling for adequate public notice was apparently not followed and so County Attorney Ginger Shofner said, "I would recommend that you put your notice in the paper. It would be better to do that."... more

Our Gospel Meeting here at Catalpa is going along pretty well this week, having started on Sunday, July 26. Brother James Cullins is the preacher and Edwin Carpenter the song leader. By the time this column comes out it will be history... more

BUDGET By Karen Hall Staff Writer The education committee approved the school system's budget for the 2009-2010 school year when it was presented to them Tuesday night. Members of Larry McKnight's committee voted three to one to pass the schools' budget on to the County commission's budget committee. The lone dissenting vote came from Don Ledford, who was concerned about drawing from the fund balance... more

DivorceCare and DivorceCare 4Kids will begin Aug. 5 at East Commerce Baptist Church in Lewisburg and be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday for 13 straight weeks. Call 359-1027 or e-mail ecombapt@bellsouth.net for more information. Clay Hill United Methodist Church is now offering free one-on-one tutoring in reading. Let God bless us by helping you. For more information call 931-364-7648 before 8:30 p.m... more

U.S. Rep Bart Gordon is endorsing continued funding for the expansion of the Lewisburg Greenway, a pedestrian park that would be extended from downtown to the Columbia State Community College campus here. That's according to Sean Gilliland, a field representative for Gordon who sent Gilliland to Lewisburg on Thursday to meet with the public in City Hall. Extension of the greenway, a linear park that passes through Rock Creek Park, behind City Hall and to Southside Park... more

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A man charged in the deaths of six people in Tennessee and Alabama has been transferred to state custody and is being held in a maximum security prison in Nashville, officials said. Dorinda Carter, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Correction, said Monday that Jacob Levi Shaffer, 30, was transferred from the Lincoln County jail to Riverbend Maximum Security Institution last Thursday... more

A former county commission chairman's lawyer questions two votes by the county's Ethics Committee on his client's case and calls them self-contradictory. Lewisburg-based attorney Robert Binkley represents Sam Smith, the former commission chairman who had been accused of failing to reveal he had land for sale that might have been used for a landfill. The Ethics Committee voted July 13... more

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper says people with handgun permits can't carry their weapons into parks or sports fields when they are being used by schools. In an opinion released Monday, Cooper says the state's new law to allow permit holders to bring their guns in city and county parks does not prohibit schools from using those facilities. But once they do, guns would be banned there... more

Marshall County's Solid Waste Committee has dropped its support for an audit of trash delivered to Cedar Ridge Landfill and members have criticized Waste Management as uncooperative. It's the latest development in one of several aspects of the county's on-going discussions on what to do about trash here since there's a possibility that the state won't grant a permit request for the expansion of Cedar Ridge Landfill... more

BRIEFS for July 29 DivorceCare and DivorceCare 4Kids will begin Aug. 5 at East Commerce Baptist Church in Lewisburg and be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday for 13 straight weeks. Call 359-1027 or e-mail ecombapt@bellsouth.net for more information. Clay Hill United Methodist Church is now offering free one-on-one tutoring in reading. Let God bless us by helping you. For more information call 931-364-7648 before 8:30 p.m... more

Since Marshall County commissioners rejected an annual solid waste fee, Waste Management's offer to help continue county recycling services becomes an important topic for the County's Solid Waste Committee. Without county revenue to cover a $221,000 deficit from host fees paid by Cedar Ridge Landfill, the Solid Waste Department will probably eliminate two jobs; One full-time position, and a part time job. ... more

Forty-three offices and shops in Marshall County have employed more than 90 people in the summer youth jobs program that's subsidized by federal stimulus money. "This is the first time there's been a summer youth program in Marshall County under this program," says Sylvia Drusilla Davis, the county coordinator for the program administered by the South Central Tennessee Workforce Alliance headquartered in Columbia... more

A proposed $60 annual fee to fund a $210,000 deficit in Marshall County's Solid Waste budget was defeated by a 10-6 vote by county commissioners on Monday night. There's a deficit because Cedar Ridge Landfill reduced what it will accept to 25 percent of what it received previously due to uncertainty on whether the state will let the facility expand. The landfill pays the county a host fee based on the weight of trash received for burial... more

The Marshall County Sheriff's Department joined local, state and federal law enforcement for a month-long fugitive apprehension effort known as FALCON (Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally.) The falcon soared into Middle Tennessee on June 1 and by the time the operation was over 624 fugitives had been apprehended and 801 warrants cleared. Over 350 officers from 64 different agencies participated in the operation in Middle Tennessee... more

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- An attorney is preparing to ask the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to pay disability benefits and damages for hospital mistakes that may have exposed veterans to infectious body fluids -- a complaint that he said could ultimately multiply into many more such demands... more