MILAN (March 12) — After going with younger guys in the last three coaching selections, Milan has decided to go with a veteran this time around for its new head football coach. more

MURFREESBORO (March 12) — Savannah Davis is the TSSAA Miss Basketball Class 1A for 2024. The senior at McKenzie High School also earned the title in 2022, her sophomore year. more

NASHVILLE (March 14) — No deal. A committee in the Tennessee House of Representatives killed a local effort to rename Lake Halford back to the original name of Carroll County 1000-Acre Recreational Lake. more

NASHVILLE  – Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration Commissioner Jim Bryson today announced that February revenues were less than budgeted estimates. Overall February … more

Politics is a dirty business and at times it resembles a soap opera. Naturally, there are scandals of various natures that present themselves at every level. I’m always interested in a good political scandal which is one reason I wrote about Ray Blanton last year. more

The year was 1979. My young wife and I decided we would recapture a memory from our dating years in the early 70’s and return to the bowling alley we’d frequented back then. more

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman David Kustoff (R-TN) secured $5,000,000 for the Tennessee Department of Transportation to add more lanes to Highway 641 from Howard Road, in Henry County, to the Kentucky state line. Specifically, it will widen US-641 to four-lanes from Paris, Tennessee into Kentucky. more

HENRY (March 10) — A Paris man was arrested on arson charges after two boats were set ablaze in the Henry area Sunday evening. more

$144 Million, that’s how much money could/will leave Tennessee public schools and flow into the pockets of private (for-profit) schools within the first year of the school voucher program, the money will “follow the student.” According to Governor Bill Lee’s proposal, the state will pay up to $7,000 annually per student that has the means and desire to attend a private school instead of the public school in their area. more

HENRY — Waddell Clinic Primary Care and Aesthetics opens its new clinic in Henry on Friday, March 15. more

The City of McKenzie Board of Mayor and Council meets Thursday, March 14, at 6 p.m. at 2470 Cedar Street, McKenzie. more

ATWOOD (March 7) — New vans, a pickup truck, a metal detector to screen incoming visitors or students, and a new storage building were all approved for purchase during the March 7 meeting of the Board of Education of the West Carroll Special School District. more

ATWOOD (March 7) — West Carroll Special School District launched a new phone app and upgraded its website to better serve the stakeholder of the school system. Michelle Robinson, who headed the project, displayed the newly available phone app, that will provide a central point of communications for teachers, students and parents. Robinson said the app and upgraded website will consolidate communications for the school system. more

McKENZIE (March 11) — The much-anticipated sidewalk development in downtown McKenzie began on Monday as construction crews begin to tear out sidewalks and replace them with sidewalks that meet American with Disabilities Act. more

CARROLL COUNTY (March 11) — Super Tuesday has come and gone and the results are in for the Presidential Preference Primary of the 2024 election cycle. Last week, 2,522 Carroll Countians turned out to cast their ballots for the presidential candidate of their choice. more

NASHVILLE — Today, the Tennessee Department of Education announced state school and district designations for the 2022-23 school year, including Reward schools, Exemplary districts, and In Need of Improvement districts. These designations are based on various performance indicators, including student achievement and growth. more

HUNTINGDON —Mrs. Judy Baker, 80, of Huntingdon, Tenn., died Monday, March 4, 2024, at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville. more

HUNTINGDON (March 7) — The Governor’s school voucher bill is moving in both houses and has a high probability of passage, said State Representative Brock Martin (R-Huntingdon). Martin was speaking at the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce’s Legislative Forum on Friday at the Carroll County Civic Center. more

HUNTINGDON (March 5) — On Tuesday, the Town of Huntingdon in conjunction with Carroll County Chamber of Commerce along with other officials announced a new industry, INTOCAST AG, will locate its first U.S. operations in Tennessee. more

An often quoted phrase related to open government is one by Louis Brandeis, an attorney and associate justice on the Supreme Court whose work and writings spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries. more