A 34 percent rate hike was recommended Monday to Marshall County's Board of Public Utilities and water directors decided to address the issue next month for nearly 10,000 residents who use that service. A multi-million dollar, 57-mile water line extension project is cited by MCBPU's consulting engineer as increasing costs without counterbalancing growth in customer base to explain the utility's first rate hike in 16 years... more

SHELBYVILLE -- The former Marshall County High School student who was charged in the 2007 shooting death of a car salesman here pleaded guilty this week and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Jason Young, 21, of Lewisburg will be nearly 47 years old when he might be put on parole, District Attorney Chuck Crawford said of the last of three defendants to be convicted for the murder of Bill Ross on Valentines Day 2007... more

Early voting in the Presidential election continues through Thursday. Including today, Friday, there are only six days left to cast early ballots at the Election Commission office in the Hardison Annex on College Street. County election officials have six voting machines set up, and plenty of volunteers ready to answer questions... more

Lewisburg's City Council should decide when and if a public hearing is conducted on Waste Management's request for permission to expand dumping operations at Cedar Ridge Landfill, two top city leaders said Wednesday evening. "We decided the Council needed to be consulted," Mayor Bob Phillips said as he explained what he and City Manager Eddie Fuller did after announcing last week that a hearing would be held early next month. "The decision was deferred to Tuesday."... more

Marshall County's Emergency Medical Service Committee is recommending that the County Commission rescind its contract with an assisted living center on Mooresville Highway. Scott Bidwell, administrator of the Murfreesboro-based NHC-owned facility for seniors, asked that the contract be ended because of the condition of the portable building that's been used for the ambulance station for about a year... more

Marshall County commissioners are set on Monday to vote on borrowing more money -- this time for a trash transfer station because Cedar Ridge Landfill is running out of space. Also set for the 6 p.m. meeting in the Courthouse Annex on Lewisburg's public square are several appointments since Commissioner Joe B. Brandon resigned, and one of them is to a seat on the Marshall/Maury Regional Solid Waste Board... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer Another step has been taken toward increasing the capacity of Lewisburg's sewage treatment plant with the approval of a sludge processing plan that would have the stuff transformed into fertilizer. Treatment plant expansion may cost $15 million and include a holding tank built on land recently bought by the city. The tank will regulate flow to the plant that will still have two end products: liquid effluent that's drained away; and bio-solids... more

Rowdy Gaines, three-time swimming gold medalist at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, will be coming to the Lewisburg Recreation Center on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. Besides his three Olympic Gold medals, Gaines' other accomplishments include being a member of the Olympic Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame... more

"I can't resist an auction," said Bruce McLay, who had just bought a corner building on Lewisburg's public square for $8,000. McLay was in town from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, to visit his son Brent who owns Saddle Creek Golf Club. They went to the auction Saturday morning and McLay bought the building at 101 1st Ave. S... more

A non-profit mental health organization is asking Lewisburg and Marshall County to grant a property tax break for its office and 12 apartments on New Columbia Highway. If granted, the housing units for people in a state program would be subject to annual payments that are two-fifths of what's being paid in property taxes, according to City Manager Eddie Fuller... more

A Marshall County driver was arrested early Saturday afternoon on several charges, soon after his vehicle struck a tree on Kenny Nelson Road west of Chapel Hill. In one of his affidavits of complaint against Matthew C. Eggleston, 27, of Lunns Store Road, Marshall County Sheriff's Deputy Lindsey Cook wrote, "He did strike a tree, causing damage to his vehicle. He then left the scene, continuing on to Chunn Road where his vehicle could not go any further."... more

Marshall County's Solid Waste Committee is mulling over information gathered Monday night from four Middle Tennessee engineering companies that want a contract to develop plans on what to do with area residents' trash. Committee Chairman Don Ledford asked the panelists to return to the Courthouse Annex on Nov. 10 when they should rank their top three contenders for a contract that may be worth up to $34,500, but could affect everybody in the county forever... more

The nation's leading software for planning school bus routes, and much more, is on its way to Marshall County. Technology director Suzanne Ingram says Edulog software is used by most of the neighboring counties, and by school systems across the country. She worked in Maury County when they implemented the Edulog software and says, "It's a neat program."... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer Lewisburg Mayor Bob Phillips decided Thursday the city should tentatively schedule a hearing early next month so the City Council may hear public comments on whether Waste Management Inc. ought to be permitted by the state to expand the disposal area at Cedar Ridge Landfill... more

Glenn Ezell, supervisor of transportation for the Marshall County school system, gave the school board's transportation committee plenty to think over when he met with them on Tuesday. The school bus garage is already keeping track of fuel used per bus per month on a spreadsheet, and the committee members will be kept up-dated with these figures... more

A local delegation has returned from a shopping center business convention in Atlanta where businessmen realized that some of America's economic facts of life had come home to roost. "The economy has tightened up to where it would appear that they're not going into risky markets," Chapel Hill Town Administrator Mike Hatten said, adding that some businesses may want to look further into this market, but others won't... more

By Karen Hall Staff Writer Lewisburg Chief of Police Chuck Forbis was introduced to the AARP this week at their meeting in the First United Methodist Church's Fellowship Hall, and used the occasion to give them some tips for preventing identity theft and maintaining the security of their homes... more

By Karen Hall Staff Writer New officers were elected at the Marshall County Republicans' meeting Tuesday night. A vacancy had been created by their chairman, Andrew Wood, moving away. Mary Francis Johnson, who had been co-chair, was elected to the chairman's office, while new member Trey Church was chosen as co-chair. Janet Heckle, who is already leads the Marshall County McCain campaign, was chosen as assistant treasurer... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer Marshall County commissioners' Education Committee wants to reach out and make itself available to the communities served by the public schools here. In a related effort, members of the committee led by Commissioner Larry McKnight want to have leaders of other similarly-sized school systems share their insights on how to educate students... more

By Brian Mosely Special to The Tribune SHELBYVILLE -- Guilty verdicts were returned Wednesday against the woman who shot and killed a Lewisburg woman's brother who recently moved from Marshall to Bedford County to be closer to his job. Ashley Mai Cook was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first degree murder in the 2007 Valentine's Day shooting of Shelbyville car salesman Bill Ross. Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 17... more