Students can bring a knife to school without penalty - if they turn it over to the administration as soon as they realize their mistake. This is the policy that the school board's policy committee decided to recommend for adoption by the school board... more

Testing of water from wells and springs will begin again within two weeks at 15 sites in the vicinity of Cedar Ridge Landfill, according to the consultant hired by Marshall County. "We're going to start this round of sampling on Feb. 10," said Bill Griggs, co-owner of Griggs & Maloney, the Murfreesboro-based environmental engineering firm hired late last year... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer Citing layoffs, furloughs and economic disaster, Lewisburg Electric System leaders have decided to provide a safety net for their customers. The LES Board of directors' voted Monday night to spend up to $12,000 on financially strapped customers' electric bills. Now, $3,000 of the $12,000 is available monthly until May... more

Volunteers wanting to be trained to assist in preparing taxes for those making less than $42,000 annually should call 1-800-221-2642, ext. 130, or 931-242-7306. 28 The Three Star Housing Committee will meet at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, in room 2212 of the Courthouse Annex, Lewisburg... more

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., the largest producer of cardboard box materials in North America, on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it looks to restructure a heavy debt amid a global credit freeze. There was no immediate word on how the filing would impact the company's Lewisburg facility... more

WASHINGTON -- Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday, in asking lawmakers to lift the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week. If the change happens, that doesn't necessarily mean an end to Saturday mail delivery. Previous post office studies have looked at the possibility of skipping some other day when mail flow is light, such as Tuesday... more

Lawyers employed by the state to defend indigent people in court might have to consult with their clients on the Courthouse steps or at restaurants if state funding is cut, Marshall County commissioners were told this week. "The state budget is pretty bad this year," Public Defender Donna Hargrove told the County Budget Committee on Wednesday night. "I have to prepare for the worst case scenario," and that might mean closing two of her offices... more

More local money should be made available to leverage even more federal money to help pay heating bills for Marshall County residents who qualify for the program, according to a recommendation from the County Budget Committee. All Marshall County commissioners are scheduled on Monday night to consider appropriating $4,000 from reserve funds to match money from Congress through state agencies to pay heating bills through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program... more

CORNERSVILLE -- A routine traffic stop late Monday night led to the discovery and confiscation of an indoor marijuana-growing operation here, according to police. Nineteen marijuana plants were confiscated and stored in Police Chief Todd Bone's office until they could be transported to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the chief said Wednesday... more

Lewisburg leaders are trying to expand the Business Park on Mooresville Highway so they can attract businesses that will provide more jobs here, officials said this week. "When the big companies come in," Lewisburg Industrial Development Director Terry Wallace told the leaders on Tuesday evening, "you have to have something big to show them."... more

Spook Clark retires, coaching legacy lives on By Anthony S. Puca Staff Writer Eugene "Spook" Clark, longtime Marshall County sportsman and youth softball coach, recently retired after serving over 56 years with the United States Postal Service in Lewisburg... more

We are still having winter around here. From 1:30 - 2:30 today, Monday, Jan. 19, it was more than snow showers: we got a "snow storm," but by 3 p.m. the sun was shining. We are still below freezing and the past week we had below 10 degrees about three nights. I just hope February won't be as cold as it was in 1994 beginning on the 10th and we had no electricity for five days... more

The Lynnville Literary and Fine Arts Society will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, in the fellowship hall of the Lynnville First Presbyterian Church The winners in the Lynnville Christmas Home Decorating Contest were as follows: first place went to the Main Street home of Glenn Dunnavant and Jackie and Troy Dunnavant; second place went to the home of Eileen and Lee Moore located at the corner of Burrough and Main Street, and third place went to the Bugg Street home of Steve VanHooser (parsonage of the Lynnville United Methodist Church). ... more

As Marshall County's Board of Public Utilities continues to receive requests from residents who want water service, the Board has decided how some decisions should be made when dealing with the requests. The decision is to favor water line extensions that will help build the customer base and increase revenues so that a prospective water rate hike might be limited because more people are buying water from the countywide system... more

All meetings of Marshall County Commission committees should be recorded, according to a consensus reached Monday by the Commission's Rules Committee. That plan and other procedural changes are to be considered again at another Rules Committee meeting set for Feb. 2, the chairman of that committee, Commissioner Mickey King, said Wednesday... more

We recently took son Gideon (who turns five in March) for his first visit to Nashville's Adventure Science Center. It was heartwarming to watch busloads of eager children gazing at the humongous building and the seemingly endless rooms of high-tech displays. You couldn't help but wonder how many of the tykes were thinking, "Wow! I can't wait to play with the box the building came in!"... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer PETERSBURG - "Promotion of obscene material" is the offense listed in a police report from the incident between an alderman and the town recorder last fall, according to the police chief's report filed more than two months after the complaint... more

"Y'all need to find someone else to run this school system!" That's what Dr. Stan Curtis, director of Marshall County Schools told the school board during a work session last week, according to board members who heard him say it. Curtis then pushed back from the table and walked from the room, two board members reported... more

The Lewisburg Fire Department put out a fire in the attic of a house on Spring Place Road last Thursday night. According to Capt. Larry Baxter's report, "smoke was coming from both eaves. Fire was in attic...We vented, gained access, and extinguished the fire. A 10 x 10 area was burned."... more

In the face of a devastating fire on Saturday, Momma wants to rebuild "Momma's Country," the New Columbia Highway weekend nightspot so she can continue to honor her late husband's legacy. Saturday morning, one of Betty "Momma" Prince's friends was thawing frozen pipes with a torpedo-shaped construction site heater commonly called a salamander that forced hot air under the restrooms where the wooden floor caught on fire, Prince and the Berlin fire chief said... more