Verona Tribune photos by Dale James By Dale James Editor VERONA -- When this crossroads community first began to coalesce into something big enough to need a name, it was nearly dubbed "Kiss Me Quick." Lifelong resident Donald "Dude" Hunter explains the origin of such an unlikely name... more

Lewisburg's City Council has deferred a decision to release land where a road would have been built and the city manager is taking steps toward having the road constructed. For the full story, pick up a copy of Friday's Tribune. more

Drayke Alan Crom was supposed to have been born on July 19. Instead he came into the world 12 weeks premature. Drayke was 11 inches long and weighed just 1 pound 4.7 ounces when he was born by Caesarean section on April 28. Doctors had kept his mother, Lorri King, 45, of Lewisburg, on bed rest for a month before the birth, hoping to postpone the delivery... more

A Marshall County jury may hear about a statement of regret from a man charged with aggravated child abuse in a case alleging he and a woman scalded her boy's buttocks in hot water. For the full story, pick up a copy of Friday's Tribune. more

Applications from residents of Ward 3 in Lewisburg who want to be appointed to an open seat on the City Council should be filed at City Hall by Oct. 9. For the full story, pick up a copy of Friday's Tribune. more

Lewisburg's City Council will be borrowing money from a bank to finance construction of a building in its business park, instead of using a federal government loan for the $1.5 million project. For the full story, pick up a copy of Friday's Tribune. more

Prep football is already heating up for the three Marshall County schools and week three presents some big challenges. Both Forrest and Marshall County are coming off huge wins last week, while Cornersville will try to rebound from a lackluster performance at Columbia Academy, where they were shut-out 35-0... more

The Cornersville Board of Mayor and Aldermen failed to approve a new inter-local agreement intended to guide economic development in the county at last week's meeting. For the full story, pick up a copy of Wednesday's Tribune. more

Charming! Precious! Delightful! It's hard to find words to adequately describe Marshall County Theater's staging of Seussical Jr. Director Alva Cavinar has done an excellent job of bringing Seussical to the stage. A cast of 30 colorfully costumed characters join some familiar faces from Dr. Suess in singing, dancing and presenting a very professional presentation of this play... more

The Marshall County Health Council celebrated its 10th anniversary with a party in the Board of Education's conference room on Monday, September 8. County Mayor Joe Boyd Liggett proclaimed this week (Sept. 7-13) to be "Marshall County Health Council Week."... more

Southerners became so familiar with folks who avoid cold winters in the North that they gave them a name, snow birds. With the recurring evacuation orders because of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, perhaps there will be a nickname for the wave of evacuees streaming northward from New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities... more

The Marshall County Republican Party opened its office on Lewisburg's public square Friday with a day-long reception. For the full story, pick up a copy of Wednesday's Tribune. more

Lewisburg's Industrial Development Board voted unanimously Monday to sell for $150,000 its property that had been rented to Little Tikes Daycare for $1 per year. For the full story, pick up a copy of Wednesday's Tribune. more

Lewisburg Councilwoman Betsy Shelton plans to resign from the City Council this month because she's moving from Ward 3. "I certainly hate to do that at this stage of the game, but an opportunity arose," Shelton said of her brief tenure. For the full story, pick up a copy of Wednesday's Tribune... more

"The buses will run!" rejoiced new school board member Curt Denton at the end of the meeting Wednesday night at which the board completed the necessary cuts and agreed a balanced budget. "If you have any questions, call Central Office and ask for Stan Curtis," Denton added, provoking general laughter... more

Waste Management Inc. has formally asked Lewisburg for permission to expand Cedar Ridge Landfill, a request that starts a public comment period today and will lead to another public hearing on solid waste disposal. For the full story, see Friday's Tribune... more

Dr. Stan Curtis is not unfamiliar with the polite mayhem that is the annual school budget hearing process. "I've been through it before," Marshall County's director of schools says. Curtis says that for the last five or six years Maury County, where he was principal of Hampshire Unit School prior to assuming his new post in mid April, did not pass a budget until Oct. 1. One year they came close to shutting down the schools before a compromise was reached... more

With so many people coming to Tennessee because of another hurricane slamming the Gulf Coast, some folks might see emergency housing as a responsibility for the man charged with enforcement of stormwater regulations in Lewisburg. For the full story, see Friday's Tribune... more

The Marshall County Commission's Ethics Committee is to continue on Sept. 15 its consideration of complaints against two men accused of violating the state's law on ethics. For the full story, see Friday's Tribune. more

Family lore has it that he was one of the first three Marines to storm ashore at Guadalcanal. Those who knew James Hawkins and worked for him in his days as a publisher insist that, when things did not go to suit him, "Hawk" was still more than capable of raising a respectable storm nearly half a century later... more