Greetings! The rains have been so good on my flowers and they are so good to help me not to have to pull a 100-foot hose all over the yard. I just hope the rains will continue to come as we need them and all the crops and gardens will produce lots of good produce to freeze and can... more

BRIEFS for July 17 The Marshall County School System will hold new student registration on Tuesday, July 28, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This is for students who were not enrolled in Marshall County schools last year. Kindergarten through sixth grade students who will attend a Lewisburg school will register at the Central Office, 700 Jones Circle, Lewisburg; all others will register at their respective schools. ... more

Faced with a youth baseball league advocate's opposition and the support of a man whose daughter was injured during a soccer fundraiser on a public road, Lewisburg's City Council voted on Tuesday for more rules and better policing of fundraising events on the Courthouse square... more

To the editor: My mother, Christine Adams, is buried at Lone Oak Cemetery. We always keep her grave nice and well maintained. I feel she lived a long life and deserves to rest in peace and not be disturbed. My husband, Howard, recently refinished a cedar bench and we placed it at the foot of her grave with a few figurines on it. The first week of July, I went to visit her grave and found that the bench had been stolen... more

Veterans Administration medical benefits are the subject of a seminar offered at no charge to visitors next month at the Church Street Church of Christ Annex. The Marshall County Commission's Veterans Committee is hosting the Veterans Workshop at 6 p.m. on Aug. 6, a Thursday, according to Commissioner Larry McKnight, a retired colonel... more

Various terrestrial distractions may have made you overlook it, but July 20 marks the 40th anniversary of man's first walk on the moon. A magazine article from four decades ago predicted that the Apollo 11 astronauts (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins) would be the most celebrated explorers in history. ... more

Stephen Mark Ashworth Stephen Mark Ashworth, 51, of Hartsville, died Sunday, July 12, 2009, at his residence. He was preceded in death by his father, Ernie Ashworth, and mother, Elizabeth "Bettye" Ashworth. He is survived by his son, Nicolas Patrick Ashworth of Lewisburg; daughter, Elizabeth Ann Ashworth; brothers, John Michael (Pam) Ashworth of Smyrna and Paul Wesley (Crystal) Ashworth of Hartsville; and a sister, Rebecca Gale Parker of Ardmore... more

A County commissioner has resigned her seat because she has moved out of the district she was elected to represent. The county commission will appoint someone to fill that seat at their regular meeting on Aug. 24. Linda Williams-Lee has represented Marshall County's 3rd District for almost seven years; her term was due to end in August 2010. Now, however, she has a new home in the 8th District, and is therefore resigning her seat... more

ACT Newsletter Helps Parents Help Their Children Iowa City, IA -- The latest edition of ACT Parent newsletter is now available online. Designed to help children succeed as they prepare for college and careers, ACT Parent features articles that empower parents... more

Faced with shrinking revenues from sales and property taxes, Marshall County's Budget Committee was scheduled to reach some decisions this week on an annual budget that could total some $74 million. "It is a very tight budget," said County Commissioner Don Ledford, a member of the Budget Committee. "In my estimation there will be very little taking. Everybody will have to give a little. This is not the year to dig your heels in" for more spending... more

Arrests have been made in the case of the theft of T-posts and 4 x 4 panels from the City of Lewisburg's warehouse on June 22. Each man's bond was set at $8,000 and they are both due in court on Aug. 11. Both are also charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor... more

A pay raise for teachers was not among the items agreed by negotiators when they met Monday to discuss articles of the teacher's contract for next year. "We do understand what's happening in the economy, and we accept that there will be no pay raise," Marshall County Education Association lead negotiator Kathy Stapleton said... more

A motion for a special called meeting to discuss terminating the director of school's contract was defeated by six votes to two at a Monday night continuation of the school board's July meeting. "From my perspective, the integrity of the board is at stake when the evaluation of the director is questionable at best and we do nothing," said board member Craig Michael, who made the motion... more

The Marshall County School Board voted to present its 2009-2010 budget to the county commission's education committee this week. Discussion of items in the school board's draft budget was cut short by chairwoman Ann Tears, who called for a vote on the motion to send it on... more

A Columbia man was transported to Vanderbilt to be treated for stab wounds after being attacked in Lewisburg last Thursday. At the Marshall Medical Center emergency room, Officer Larry Hazelwood of the Lewisburg Police Department was told that Marcus W. Abernathy, 37, came to Lewisburg with his girlfriend to "pick up her kids at their father's house on 4th Avenue North." Abernathy and the children's father, Carlos D. Martin, 28, got into an altercation... more

The man who stabbed a fellow Hispanic last week is still at large, according to Detective Sergeant Jimmy Oliver of the Lewisburg Police Department. Oliver interviewed the victim, Saul Ortiz, while he was still a patient in the trauma unit at Vanderbilt last week. Oliver said Ortiz selected Artemio Castillo, 34, from a photo line-up. Castillo's name had already been given to Oliver by Ortiz and by the man who witnessed the argument moments before the stabbing in front of 1537 Old Columbia Road... more

Children shouldn't be soliciting donations in the street, according to the parents of a Marshall County High School graduate who was hit in traffic a decade ago during a soccer team fundraising roadblock. "After she got hit, all of that came to an end for quite a while," says Dan Bennington, 51, of Gina Lynn Drive, father of Nicole Aziminia, now 27, now the mother of her two-year-old son, Alex, and living in La Vergne... more

Today is the last day to make reservations to attend the 2009 Forrest Alumni Annual Banquet, which will be held in the school cafeteria on Saturday, Aug. 1, with fellowship at 3 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m. For more information visit www.forrestalumni.com or contact Katie Harris or Ricky Sweeney... more

CHAPEL HILL - The biggest, and quite possibly the loudest tractor pull in the Southeast United States starts here in nine days, according to organizers in this north Marshall County town. "We draw the pullers from all over the United States," says Chris Gilbert, chairman of the Lions Super Pull of the South, a two-day sporting event conducted July 24-25 at Forrest High School's football stadium... more

A Marshall County man pleaded guilty of three drug crimes on Friday when he was sentenced to 11 years in state custody, according to Circuit Court records. Gregory Patrick Terry, 21, pleaded guilty of selling cocaine and was sentenced to 10 years by Judge Robert Crigler who sentenced Terry to an additional year on a charge of possessing the drug with the intent to sell it... more