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Livingston’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved a new moral and ethics policy for the city ballpark Monday. Citizen Albert Jenkins said the policy would help ensure the safety of children playing at the ballpark. “We’re looking to confront the person being of poor sportsmanship and ask them to leave,” Jenkins said. “If they don’t leave, we want to be ... Read More »

The Tennessee Tech Executive Committee voted Tuesday to recommend Trudy Harper as the next Chair of the Board of Trustees. Current Chair Tom Jones said Harper would serve the board well. “It certainly helps to be local or pseudo-local and have time to devote to it. Certainly, don’t want to pre-judge any candidates. But Trudy was the vice chair,” Jones ... Read More »

The Upper Cumberland Development District (UCDD) will allow Fentress County residents to fill out a survey before creating a 20-year comprehensive plan. Communications Coordinator Sarah Cunningham said the survey gives citizens a voice in the matter. “So what we will do is, take the responses and give them out to their staff members,” Cunningham said. “And we’ll be able to ... Read More »

A new Livingston ordinance regulating city junkyards passed the Board of Mayor and Aldermen Monday. Envision Livingston member Ray Evans said the ordinance is the final part of the city’s property maintenance regulations. “Basically it talks about maintaining and it talks about screening junkyards from public view,” Evans said. “It talks about maintaining junkyards in a cleanly manner so there’s ... Read More »

Van Buren County has opened its eighth community center walking track at the Cumminsville Community Center. County Mayor Greg Wilson said the effort of adding the new walking tracks began approximately five years ago. “In 2014 when I was running for county mayor, we had two walking tracks in Van Buren county – one was inside the city limits of ... Read More »

Tennessee Tech University will look to clarify its public record request procedures following a special-called meeting Tuesday. The policy states that out-of-state citizens and/or students may present proof of Tennessee residency to obtain records. Journalism Professor Vanessa Curry said out-of-state students should have access to files regardless of state citizenship. “We need to retrace our steps and seriously consider a ... Read More »

A Monterey resident may be asked to give up his chickens. Mayor Bill Wiggins said neighbors have complained that the man’s birds cause too much noise and too many foul odors. “I know if you travel the city in the dawn or the dusk it sounds like Old McDonald’s farm out there, but finally we got a complaint,” Wiggins said. ... Read More »