Some Marshall County commissioners stirred up a hornets nest when they voted to award a contract for insect extermination services to a company based elsewhere instead of a Lewisburg man who was required to have insurance he can't use, thereby increasing his bid... more

Lewisburg's treasurer reports a 5 percent drop in revenues that can be attributed to the recession and therefore the City Council approved a budget adjustment Tuesday night. Fortunately, other changes during the fiscal year coming to an end on June 30 counterbalanced the $653,000 drop in revenues and ironically, the budget now totals about 1.75 percent more than what it was when adopted last summer... more

Fund raising on Lewisburg's public square has attracted the City Council's attention as the practice is described as threatening retail businesses around Marshall County's Courthouse because motorists avoid the square when solicitors are at various corners... more

Marshall County Memorial Library is having its Summer Reading Program this summer every Thursday through July 16. The Lewisburg Parks & Recreation Department is sponsoring a Mini Cheer Camp for 4- to 10-year-olds, from June 22 through 25, at the Rec Center gym. For more information, or to register, call Jane Tilford at 359-2482... more

Mike Minor is staying in the south and could soon play for organization he cheered for as a child. Minor, a left-handed pitcher who starred at Forrest High School and Vanderbilt University, was taken by the Atlanta Braves with the No. 7 pick in Tuesday night's amateur draft... more

Thefts reported: Reported killed on Thursday, June 4, between 8 and 8:30 p.m.: A brown mixed-breed dog was shot in the rib cage with an air rifle or pistol at a residence on Lindsey Lane, Chapel Hill. "The dog had been a family pet since it was a puppy. The owner stated a reward would be offered for information as to the person or persons responsible for the act."... more

PETERSBURG - Sexual harassment, annexation of an appointed alderman's home and the annual budget are to be considered during special called meetings of the town board on the next two Mondays. All three topics were up for consideration when the Board met for its regularly scheduled meeting this week, but with comments on some and required sessions on revenue and expenditures, the aldermen agreed to delay decisions for a week... more

NASHVILLE - The decline in state tax collections continued for a 10th consecutive month in May, as overall May revenues were $716.5 million, or $123.3 million less than the state budgeted. May also marks the 15th month of negative growth for sales tax collections in the past 17 months... more

PETERSBURG -- The 5th Annual Lions Bluegrass and Chicken Festival here promises to be another flappin' and clappin' good time on Saturday in Lions Pride Park. With music all day from Blue Persuasion, Jake Landers Band, Lonnie Jones & Hard Drive, the contests and games include chicken bowling, nugget eating, egg peeling, skillet tossing, the bouncer and chicken scratching... more

In response to the financial austerity move by Marshall County's ECD-Tourism Committee that declined to pay for Independence Day fireworks, the Chamber of Commerce here has found another way, so the show will go on. "We are going ahead with the fire works," Chamber President Chad Fox said on Wednesday afternoon while reporting on a Chamber Board meeting on Monday in the conference room of the Bank of America located on Lewisburg's public square... more

Two-thirds of the school board's nine members met in closed executive session Tuesday to decide how to direct their team when it resumes negotiations with the Marshall County Education Association today. Director of schools Stan Curtis, who was named to head the negotiating team after the resignation of Craig Michael, was the only non-board member present... more

"I'm so sad. I don't know what to say." Those are the words of fictional character Betty Cooper on her blog on the ArchieComics.com website. Betty was reacting to the news that Archie Andrews has finally made up his mind and will propose to Betty's rival, heiress Veronica Lodge, in the first part of a six-part story that begins in the 600th issue of the Archie comic book... more

Marshall County Memorial Library is having its Summer Reading Program this summer every Thursday through July 16. The Lewisburg Parks & Recreation Department is sponsoring a Mini Cheer Camp for 4- to 10-year-olds, from June 22 through 25, at the Rec Center gym. For more information, or to register, call Jane Tilford at 359-2482... more

A Spring Hill man was convicted Friday on three of 10 counts in a theft and forgery case brought by the state as a result of crimes reported at Free Sprit Farms on Globe Road. The trial of Brian Mark Driggers, 38, lasted two days in Marshall County Circuit Court where former Bedford County Sheriff Clay Parker was the defense attorney. It was Parker's first jury trial as an attorney... more

Sentences were passed last week on two Marshall County residents who had been found guilty of crimes - one in a jury trial, the other in a bench trial. A jury found Tommy Lemont Wray, 41, of Chapel Hill guilty of the felony offences of aggravated burglary and sexual battery, and the misdemeanor offence of criminal attempted sexual battery. ... more

COLUMBIA - Brainstorming by state and regional officials on Friday - to promote the Spring Hill auto assembly plant as General Motors' best route to recovery - generated ideas and cautious optimism. State Sen. Bill Ketron is to get a list of 700 suppliers who should write letters of commitment so GM executives will be able to see that two thirds of the suppliers for the Spring Hill plant are local, loyal and capable, the Murfreesboro Republican said... more

The school board received criticism from two bodies at their meeting May 21. Rochelle Alexander of the NAACP addressed the board about the treatment of minorities in the county's schools. She cited numerous incidents at Westhills Elementary of "poor response to concerns of parents," and pointed out that the board of education employs a below-average number of minority teachers and staff, especially in Chapel Hill and Cornersville... more

The school board's policy committee had a lively dialogue with teachers attending their meeting last week. "I have been swamped with feedback from all over the county," said board member Randy Perryman to start the discussion on removal of the zero grade for work missed due to an unexcused absence. ... more

CHAPEL HILL - America's recession has had a couple of effects on taxidermists and they appear to be in conflict with each other, according to the president of the Tennessee Taxidermists Association. Association President Kenny Brancefield of Charleston, Tenn., explained both ends of the spectrum at Henry Horton State Park on Friday when one of the organization's guest speakers was telling members how to improve their trade... more

The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation is apparently going to ask Waste Management Inc. for more environmental protections if it's to permit increased use of land at Cedar Ridge Landfill. Company officials have received permission from Lewisburg and Marshall County for the use of property at the landfill where a sinkhole would be capped, according to plans described during meetings and hearings during the past year... more