A 21-year-old Smithville man has admitted to drinking prior to crashing his vehicle on Highway 111 Friday morning. The Tennessee Highway Patrol said a blood alcohol concentration test will determine if Austin T. Bryan faces any charges. The crash happened on Highway 111 northbound at 5:19 a.m. According to a THP crash report, Bryan’s 2004 Toyota 4Runner overturned on its ... Read More »

Construction work will continue along Cookeville’s North Washington Avenue for at least the next three months.. That according to Carry Aitken, who is the operations superintendent for the Department of Water Quality Control. “The work being completed is in preparation for a TDOT paving project,” Aitken said. “The city is replacing 50 water services between Spring Street and Loweland Avenue ... Read More »

More than 50 Jackson County farmers will benefit from this year’s round of Tennessee Agriculture Enhancement Program funding. This will be the third time Anthony Flatt has received funding. He said life at his Bloomington Springs Farm would be a lot tougher without the program. “It would be really tough if we didn’t have this program,” Flatt said. “People in ... Read More »

A Tennessee Lottery player won $50,000 in Livingston Wednesday night. According the state lottery officials, the unidentified person won the prize by matching four of the five white numbers drawn plus the red Powerball. The ticket was purchases at Daily’s on East Main Street. Information about the winner will not be available until the prize is claimed. Read More »

A malfunctioning regulator caused the smell of natural gas at Cookeville High School Wednesday morning. According to school officials, students and staff members were never in danger due to the odor. Cookeville Gas Department officials determined that the malfunctioning regulator caused natural gas to be vented out of the CHS roof. An air-handling unit located near the vent caused the ... Read More »

Future Putnam County Commissioners will make 5-percent of the county mayor’s salary under a recommendation approved by the fiscal review committee Monday. Commissioner Cindy Adams said the proposal was a terrible idea. “It’s like shirking our duty. If we feel like we need a raise, we need to just vote ourselves a raise rather than making it something that happens ... Read More »

Putnam County authorities arrested two people Monday for charges related to a November 2018 fire. Arrest warrants charge 28-year-old Tabatha Marie Shown and 53-year-old Kenneth Levon Teeples with arson and two counts of aggravated burglary. A Putnam County Sheriff’s Office incident report listed Teeples and Shown as possible suspects in a November 25th fire that occurred on Cane Creek Road. ... Read More »

Pickett County schools will be closed the rest of the week due to illness. Director of schools Diane Elder said she made the decision to close schools after talking with a local pediatrician. “We have over 20-percent absent today and we had several leaving with fever,” Elder said. “We talked to the pediatrician. She said the flu was rampant and ... Read More »

White County High School and Middle School will soon have dogs roaming the hallways. The board of education has approved a request from Director of Schools Kurt Dronebarger to place therapy dogs inside the schools. Dronebarger said he got the idea after seeing a therapy dog program at the Dyersburg City School System. “We went to Dyersburg and witnessed their ... Read More »