The Marshall County Technology Fair will be held May 21 at the Lewisburg campus of Columbia State Community College. It will include seminars and booths with information on the latest in technology for home or office. The Marshall County Joint Economic and Community Development Board is sponsoring the event through its Technology Committee. The committee has been working over the past several weeks to recruit vendors and instructors on technology... more

CORNERSVILLE -- A young family of five just south of here is the recipient of about $4,500 worth of testing, maintenance, repairs and insulation for their mobile home through a federally-funded program that's received a boost from the Obama Administration's economic stimulus program... more

Lewisburg's Mayor-elect Barbara Woods was nowhere to be found during the several days after her landslide victory last Tuesday because she kept a date with several golfing buddies, she said over the weekend. And in doing so, Woods seems to have modified an explanation used by Mayor Bob Phillips who's maintained a Tuesday appointment with tennis partners. During those hours on the tennis court, Phillips is usually unavailable... more

The Marshall County Tigerettes traveled deep into southern Tennessee Saturday at Loretto, trying to capture their first district title since 2006, but fell just short in a last inning comeback, losing to the Lady Mustangs 6-5. Marshall County had beaten Loretto in two previous regular season meetings this season, 3-0 and 2-1... more

In just another chapter of the rainy, bad weather prep softball season, the District 9A Tournament was canceled in the early hours this morning due to the ominous weather coming from the west. Severe storms are expected throughout the day with flood warnings already being issued for much of Middle Tennessee... more

Lewisburg's City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on an ordinance that would set the city's property tax rate at $1.36 per $100 of assessed value, effectively the same rate used for 19 years and now proposed for the 20th year. Agendas of the Council meeting became available late this week when City Manager Eddie Fuller reviewed what's scheduled for the meeting set for 6 p.m. ... more

I hope everyone is ready for May, because it's here! Some of our April showers rolled over to another month, but they will soon stop, and the sun will shine! We'll probably find ourselves wishing for rain in the middle of Summer! May is a busy month for Chapel Hill, so there's no time to waste!... more

Paij B. Lintz, of Lewisburg, recently received the Muriel Tomlinson Award during the 45th annual Honors Day at the University of Tennessee at Martin. The award is presented annually to an outstanding foreign language student who is finishing his or her junior or senior year... more

Catalpa News................Mrs. Doyle Hastings Greetings: The rain has been coming down and now we are needing sunshine. The month of May will be a busy one and I hope it will be a good month for our gardens and yards so we can enjoy them. I'm sure most every one is getting tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce, onions, radishes and beets out. ... more

Ambulance staffing and overtime pay are a concern for the Marshall County Emergency Medical Services Committee composed of county commissioners who want the best service available in a life or death emergency. However, those committee members and other commissioners at the committee meeting on Monday evening are also concerned about county spending plans when a recession threatens county sales tax and property tax revenues... more

Lewisburg voters delivered a landslide victory to the first woman ever elected mayor here as Barbara Woods won 80 percent of the ballots cast in Tuesday's race. The woman best known as a teacher … more

Questions, as raised by one of the candidates in Lewisburg's election on Tuesday, have revealed a tradition of allowing candidates to campaign on the traffic island directly in front of the south doors of the Marshall County Courthouse.
The tradition would appear to allow campaigning within a distance of 100 feet from the door of the polling place, as prescribed by state election officials, largely because if candidates were restricted to standing no closer than 100 feet from that door, they might be standing in the middle of Commerce Street.. ... more

Lewisburg Mayor Bob Phillips offered an observation during a recent City Council workshop on human nature and how it might conflict with a desire to make government participation open to an application process. When a new member of the city's Industrial Development Board was appointed by the Council last month, several city residents indicated they didn't know the board had an opening. Questions were raised about whether residents could apply for such positions... more

Lewisburg's City Council has been considering a major change to the retirement benefits for city employees. Instead of withdrawing money from an investment fund that could pay a lump sum when an employee retires, the retiree could benefit from a system that pays a monthly pension check... more

A Marshall County resident who was arrested in last year's drug sweep was sentenced last week after pleading guilty. Ralph Edward Fuller, 60, pleaded guilty to 12 counts of sale and delivery of prescription drugs (painkillers like Lortabs and morphine) to a confidential informant working for the 17th Judicial District Drug Task Force... more

The Robert B. Jones High School Alumni meeting will be held on Saturday, May 9, 2009 beginning at 11:30 a.m. in the Lynnville Municipal Building with a potluck lunch. Following the lunch, a program will follow with the roll call of classes from 1900 to 1978. Three outstanding alumni will be named at the meeting. Two scholarships will be given to two Richland High School Seniors... more

To further protect Marshall County residents from dangerous weather, the director of the county's Emergency Management Agency has announced that two corporations are cooperating with government agencies to publicize the importance of a weather radio and help weather radio owners get their radios tuned into the frequency best suited for this area... more

Money must be found to send local high school students to the national contests they have qualified for, even though the trips cost more than what's in the budget. This will be the recommendation of the budget committee to the school board. Budget committee chairwoman Kristen Gold explained that it has been Marshall County policy to pay 90 percent of the cost of sending high school students to national contests... more

A lengthy meeting between the school board's maintenance committee and some county commissioners ended with a unanimous expression of interest in merging the county's and the school system's maintenance departments. "Theoretically is should be effective and save the tax payer money," said committee chairman Craig Michael. "Everybody here would like to see it work."... more

As a public service, I have exhaustively researched the current hot topic of the swine flu. By exhaustive research, of course, I mean repeated viewings of "Charlotte's Web," "Babe," and "Porky's 2: The Next Day." The current pandemic divides people into two extremes: those who are freaking out over it and those who are supremely skeptical after the swine flu outbreak that fizzled in 1976... more