Federal stimulus money will pay for reconstruction of State Route 373 (Mooresville Highway) from Interstate 65 toward Lewisburg, according to state Sen. Bill Ketron who represents Marshall County. Meanwhile, several leaders in Marshall County have said that meetings in Nashville are being held today for local government leaders and their consultants to find out how the stimulus package can pay for local projects... more

More severe punishments for students using cell phones at school, starting in August, is to be the policy committee's recommendation at the school board meeting in April. In another round of discussions during the policy committee meeting Tuesday, chairwoman Ann Tears announced that the City of Lewisburg would not allow the schools to use jamming and blocking devices as committee member Curt Denton had suggested... more

A 10 percent pay cut for non-certified employees was one of the money-saving steps the school board's budget committee looked at during their meeting Tuesday. The Director of Schools, Dr. Stan Curtis, presented a list of must-haves for next year, and then a list of cuts in personnel... more

"I'm still an ordinary kid," son Gideon reassured me when I expressed trepidations about his fifth birthday. Gideon has gotten proficient at saying the right thing to Daddy, such as "Daddy is not a boring man" and "I don't think you're an old man; you look like a new man." I can tell this lad's going places --like right up the gastrointestinal tract of his future boss!... more

A Californian was declared the winner of the 2009 Road to the Horse competition in Franklin last weekend. A sell-out crowd of 6,000 horse enthusiasts from all over the country packed the Williamson County Ag Expo Park to watch three horsemen each take a 3-year-old gelding from unbroken to competition-ready in just two 90-minute sessions... more

Earlene Denton Smith Earlene Denton Smith, 85, of Lewisburg, died Friday, March 13, 2009, at Village Manor. Mrs. Smith was born in Winter Garden, Fla., but moved to the Culleoka Community with her parents and graduated from Culleoka High School. After working in Chattanooga as bookkeeper for Dr. ... more

Contract negotiations between the teachers and the board of education opened again at a meeting Tuesday. The same teams that worked on the first-ever negotiated contract for Marshall County's teachers were back at Central Office for the annual review. The three-year contract was agreed just before Christmas last year, but its provisions applied from the start of the 2008-2009 school year. Now the teams are starting work on changes to the contract for the 2009-2010 school year... more

Signatures on water easement agreements were obtained Tuesday from about a quarter of the property owners along four roads where the Marshall County Board of Public Utilities plans to lay a seven-mile water main by this time next year. Health-threatening bacteria and sulfur in well water are among the reasons up to 250 residents along Milltown, McLean, Reynolds and Wilson School roads as well as Anderson Lane want water service extended. ... more

Contract negotiations between the teachers and the board of education opened again at a meeting Tuesday. The same teams that worked on the first-ever negotiated contract for Marshall County's teachers were back at Central Office for the annual review. The three-year contract was agreed just before Christmas last year, but its provisions applied from the start of the 2008-2009 school year. Now the teams are starting work on changes to the contract for the 2009-2010 school year... more

What great weather we have been having. A lot of people are planting their gardens. Fresh vegetables will certainly taste great. Don't forget to pay your Lynnville Community Club dues. Send your dues to Treasurer Debbie Tolley, 2555 Hyde Road, Lynnville, TN 38472... more

Blood pressure screenings will be held at the Marshall County Senior Citizens center at 11 a.m. on March 20 and 25. The Marshall County Education Association is offering a scholarship to Marshall County college juniors and seniors who are majoring in education. Applications are available at the counseling offices at all three county high schools... more

Gov. Phil Bredesen has faced budget cuts that appear to be like a proposal to move the state Jersey milk cow herd from Lewisburg to Spring Hill, and in that other situation, he over-ruled the idea. That's Marshall County Mayor Joe Boyd Liggett's explanation after he and a delegation to "Save the Cows" met with the governor on Wednesday afternoon on Capitol Hill in Nashville. Liggett explained it as follows after the meeting... more

A Chapel Hill man's DUI case was the subject of a preliminary hearing last Friday, but the session did not end with a school board member's case being bound over to the Grand Jury. After hearing testimony from the arresting officer and two other lawmen, and arguments from both sides, General Sessions Court Judge Steve Bowden said he would take the case "under advisement," meaning he would deliberate later and not rule from the bench... more

A delegation of advocates for keeping the state dairy farm here is scheduled to meet with Gov. Phil Bredesen and the state agriculture commissioner at the Capitol this afternoon. It's to oppose plans by University of Tennessee administrators to move the Jersey milk herd from the farm on New Lake Road to the Maury County side of Spring Hill where Holsteins are milked and crops are grown... more

Misty Holt, 33, of Wildberry Lane, Chapel Hill, came to the Marshall County Sheriff's Department on March 13 to complain that her estranged husband, Kenneth Holt, 44, was sending her e-mails, and also telephoning her. She stated this was a violation of an order of protection signed by Judge Lee Russell on Feb. ... more

PETERSBURG -- The district attorney over both parts of this border town will be examining the municipality's latest audit, but according to the interim mayor who presided at Monday night's town board meeting, there's not much to find. The town that straddles the border of Marshall and Lincoln counties had a contentious meeting last week with residents complaining that their review of town finances "don't add up." The meeting this week lasted 12 minutes and was followed by a long conversation with the man who ran the meeting.. ... more

More training for Police Department employees and no transfer of a detective to the patrol division are key elements of a recommendation from Lewisburg's Police Advisory Board last week. It's in response to Detective Santiago Mcklean's grievance heard March 5 when he emphasized he felt discrimination as a result of a memo from Detective Sgt. Jimmy Oliver to Chief Chuck Forbis alleging Mcklean has a language barrier... more

No conclusion was reached on how to distribute the children of Lewisburg into the available school buildings at two-hour meeting of the school board's building committee Monday night. It will be discussed again at the full board meeting now scheduled to start at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 19... more

Tenants, landlords and homeowners - nearly 60 of them - received explanations at the Lewisburg Gas Department's community room last week about the federally funded weatherization program. Emily Satterfield of the South Central Human Resources Agency administers the program that installs insulation and provides advice on how to reduce energy costs. She spoke to more than a dozen visitors, including a man who later spoke of his personal circumstances on a condition of anonymity... more

Blood pressure screenings will be held at the Marshall County Senior Citizens center at 11 a.m. on March 18, 20 and 25. The Marshall County Education Association is offing a scholarship to Marshall County college juniors and seniors who are majoring in education. Applications are available at the counseling offices at all three county high schools... more