Lewisburg Police Chief Chuck Forbis was "in the process of issuing an Amber Alert" when a missing 4-year-old was found, thanks to the clever idea of the Fire Department's Capt. Larry Baxter. According to the missing person report filed by Officer John Christmas of the Lewisburg Police Department, the child wandered out the front door of her home and her "mother said she was gone approximately five minutes before she contacted the police."... more

This almost 100-degree weather needs rain! Let's pray that the driest year in history (2007) is not going to repeat itself. Gardens and corn are wilting. Just as our fourth season for the Farmers Market opened up Friday of last week in the building at Rock Creek Park. ... more

Daniel Albarran of Chapel Hill, son of David Albarran and Teresa Edwards, has been named to the Maryville College Dean's List for the 2009 spring semester. Albarran, who graduated from Forrest High School in 2006, is majoring in biochemistry. A 90-Day Fitness Program will start in July at the Lewisburg Rec Center. For more information contact Pam Robinson at 931-637-4990, or call Jane at the LRC at 931-359-2482. A good way to get in shape. All fitness levels are encouraged... more

The Farmers Market will be open on Friday, June 26, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., with a few vendors. A 90-Day Fitness Program will start in July at the Lewisburg Rec Center. For more information contact Pam Robinson at 931-637-4990, or call Jane at the LRC at 931-359-2482. A good way to get in shape. All fitness levels are encouraged... more

A Marshall County corrections officer required treatment at the emergency room after an assault at the jail recently. According to a report by Marshall County Sheriff's Deputy Sean Sweeney, Tennessee Highway Patrolman David Hill brought Jason Tyrus Hall, 23, to the jail about 10 p.m. ... more

At least one of the Marshall County teachers who was not re-hired for the upcoming school year was "totally surprised" by the letter she got from schools director Stan Curtis saying she wasn't being re-hired. "Just let me do my job - the thing I have a passion for," exclaims Misty Reese who addressed the school board's May meeting about not being told why she was not re-hired. "That's all I really wanted, was an answer. I knew my principal was pleased."... more

The transportation committee challenged the director of schools on his choice of a certified teacher to fill the post of transportation supervisor, and asked some hard questions about the Edulog software that is supposed to be saving the district money... more

CHAPEL HILL - The businesswoman who in large part was responsible for the town board addressing and approving beer sales at restaurants here was granted on Friday a permit to sell packaged beer. Tina Wesson, proprietor of Sambo's Barbecue on Horton Highway, surrendered her packaged beer sales permit to get a license to sell beer by the drink. That was last year when Sambo's became the second restaurant in town eligible to serve beer... more

With employees distressed over higher health care insurance costs, nine of 18 Marshall County commissioners on Thursday heard three insurance salesmen pitch health care services for county jail inmates. "We're struggling with health care insurance for employees and there are people who put themselves here and they're getting free health care," County Commissioner Seth Warf said. "I don't want to pay anything more than we have to for anything and I sure don't want to do it for those here."... more

A split Marshall County Commission on Monday defeated a motion to cut commissioners' pay by 30 percent as leaders on both sides said the measure was a "gesture." Led by Commissioner Mickey King, the county's Budget Committee recommended the 18 commissioners be paid $21,300 less ($1,183.33 individually) during the fiscal year July 1 through June 30, 2010... more

Water and the creek bed downstream from Vickery Spring just south of Cedar Ridge Landfill have a bluish-green color and officials said Monday that it's being investigated by the state. "I've seen that color in a creek before," said Marshall County Mayor Joe Boyd Liggett who issued warnings last week. "It was in East Fork Globe Creek seven to 10 years ago" when the source was attributed to the landfill... more

The wind beneath their wings was the Marshall County community spirit last weekend when Relay For Life volunteers celebrated survivors, remembered fallen friends and raised money to combat cancer. "The county raised more than $46,000," event spokeswoman Kelly Jo Fuller said. "It goes to American Cancer Society research, education, prevention, advocacy patient services and to find a cure for cancer and to help cancer patients."... more

Nichirin needed a win versus winless Floorz-n-More Thursday afternoon to try to get back to .500 and stay in the Babe Ruth Western Conference race. They got it in an 11-1 four inning run-rule victory. Manager Tommy Primm sent the gritty Matt Sharp to the hill and the young righty responded, turning in a workmanlike effort in scorching temperatures at the Jonathon D. Hollingsworth Memorial Field... more

First place Marshall Medical Center came into Thursday night Babe Ruth play versus United Telephone at 7-2, awaiting Monday night's showdown with the 8-3 Elks and almost got burnt for looking ahead. UT shook off a 4-0 deficit and a no-bid by Mikey Adams with a huge eight run fifth inning to lead 8-4 before MMC scored twice in the bottom of the fifth, two more times in the bottom of the sixth, and then escaped with a 9-8 win on a 7th inning walk-off double by Cody Vernon... more

Dairy farming has been Dwight Ward's life since he was a boy and his father milked cows in Giles County. "A dairy farm is a wonderful place to raise kids," he says, "But it needs to be more profitable. I'd like people to know there'll be no dairies left in Marshall County if they don't do something about the price we get for our milk."... more

PETERSBURG -- A state official is revising a proposed personnel handbook for the town, including an expanded policy on sexual harassment, based on comments during a special town board meeting this week. Sexual harassment was alleged last fall and winter when the town recorder saw an image of Sara Palin's face superimposed above a topless woman's torso. ... more

CANEY SPRING - From the Verona Caney Road, the Allen Dairy has a pastoral appearance. Up close, it retains the look of a laid-back lifestyle, mixed with hard work and heritage. But the Allen family has broken ground in the agricultural history of Marshall County. A conservation easement agreement was signed Wednesday to preserve a stretch of Duck River frontage and, in exchange, environmental protection measures became more affordable... more

Marshall County Commissioners have a full plate for their monthly meeting Monday night in the Courthouse Annex on Lewisburg's public square. The meeting is to be preceded by a public hearing on landfill expansions as to be defined by a proposed change in the county's zoning resolution. It is proposed as the state is to decide on an expansion permit for Cedar Ridge Landfill... more

A new organization, the Tennessee Dairy Producers Association, has been created to be a voice for dairy farmers and their families in this state, and its leader is a Marshall County commissioner. Dairy farmer Tony White, proprietor of Overland Hill Farm, is a member of the county's agriculture committee and was recently elected to be the new association's president. The independent, all-volunteer group's announcement was timed to coincide with June Dairy Month... more

Tennessee state law on tenure for teachers and details of the state's open records law were the main topics of a meeting between the school board and their legal counsel. It was anticipated that the school board's meeting Tuesday would be mostly an executive session, in other words, with no outsiders present... more