A Fentress County animal shelter is in need of a new home. Best Friends Sanctuary has limited space and has received noise complaints at its Volunteer Drive location in Jamestown. Shelter Volunteer Phyllis Ferrara said the board of education has offered the old Pine Haven School as a possible site for a new animal shelter, but funding is a concern ... Read More »

Fentress County citizens will soon have a chance to provide input on existing and future park opportunities. County Executive J. Michael Cross said a public open house will be held October 3rd at 4:00 p.m. inside the Fentress County Courthouse. “Obviously if we are expanding our parks and recreations then we want the community to have a part in this,” ... Read More »

The Crossville City Council gave approval Wednesday night to apply for a $1.3 million Transportation Alternatives Grant Program. The program is designed to help communities perform repairs on pedestrian and bicycle right-of-ways, pedestrian signals, and street lights. The grant will require a 20-percent match and the city has agreed to appropriate $40,000 to assist TDOT with the pedestrian signals if ... Read More »

Cookeville is moving forward with efforts to bring curbside recycling to the city. Residents of four Cooekville subdivisions will soon be receiving a survey about curbside recycling. City Planning Department Director James Mills said one subdivision will eventually be selected to take part in a curbside recycling pilot program. “This will be no charge to the residents in the subdivision ... Read More »

Cookeville Police have arrested three men from Georgia in connection to a Tuesday morning armed robbery at Jere Whitson Park. 21-year-old Dendre Denzel Middleton, 20-year-old Michael Wade Chapman, and 21-year-old Zavarious Jacquez Thomas are charged with aggravated robbery. They remain behind bars at the Putnam County Jail on $150,000 bond. All three suspects arrested during a Wednesday morning traffic stop ... Read More »

A fire destroyed a home  on Walnut Street in Gainesboro today. Fire Chief Paul Stafford said the blaze broke out in an upstairs closet and spread to the attic. “There was some guys there working and they said there was some kind of pop that came from a closet,” Stafford said. “We aren’t sure if it was outside electric wiring ... Read More »

The Allardt Fire Department will be getting a new tanker truck thanks to a Community Development Block Grant. Allardt Fire Chief Larry Cooper said the new truck will get more water the scene of fire. “If there wasn’t CDBG grants or AFG grants through the federal government, small communities like ours just couldn’t purchase these trucks to help the communities,” ... Read More »

The town of Alexandria will have to wait a little longer to purchase a much-needed fire truck. For the second year in a row the state has denied a community development block grant for the town to purchase that truck. The town had planned to purchase the truck with the hope of improving the city’s ISO rating. Right now the ... Read More »

A DeKalb County Grand jury has indicted a Henderson Tennessee man on a charge of statutory rape. The indictment alleges that 27-year-old Michael Andrew Heidelburg had sexual relations with a 16-year-old girl between May of last year and February of this year. He’s under a $2,500 bond and will be arraigned in DeKalb County Criminal Court on October 6th. Read More »

An early Tuesday morning crash in Smith county has taken the life of a Pleasant Shade man. 43-year-old Johnny L. Thomas was killed when his 2014 Ford Mustang traveled off the side of Dean Hill Road and struck a culvert. The Tennessee Highway Patrol said Thomas was not wearing a seat belt, which would have made a difference in the ... Read More »