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The Cumberland County School Board voted Tuesday night to begin contract negotiations with Upperman Principal Billy Stepp as the system’s new director of schools In a second round of voting, Stepp earned five votes while Dr. Rebecca Farley, the school system’s current supervisor of instruction for pre-K through eighth grade for Cumberland County Schools, received four votes. “If we can’t ... Read More »

Several residents in the Central View Community made their case to the White County School Board Tuesday to reopen its elementary school. Resident Moni Webb said the community still hurts from the school closure that occurred four-years ago. “The Central View families are more serious now than four years ago to get their school back and standing with them are ... Read More »

State Representative Ryan Williams sponsoring legislation that would authorize healthcare facilities to employ and commission police officers. Williams said smaller healthcare facilities are struggling to find security workers. “Large healthcare facilities have the ability to hire or stand up their own law enforcement agencies in some instances like Vanderbilt,” Williams said. “Smaller folks like Erlanger and small regional hospitals even ... Read More »

Hanging baskets, tomato plants, flower trays or pepper plants, the Van Buren County High School Spring Plant Sale has what you need. Agriculture Teacher Kurt Maynard said the sale is ongoing until the greenhouse is empty. Maynard said the plants are grown in a 30 by 50 state of the art greenhouse on campus. Maynard said students operate the greenhouse ... Read More »

A restoration project at Wright Lake in Monterey moving forward to re-establish the Brady Branch stream system. MRW Environmental in Sparta will conduct the work. Managing Member Ken Morgan said the environmental consulting firm will drain Wright Lake and re-establish the stream. “This project will restore Brady Branch, which had been dammed up and formed the lake, back to its ... Read More »

Putnam County will receive some $300,000 as a result of FEMA increasing its natural disaster reimbursement funding. Mayor Randy Porter said TEMA notified the county that the federal government is increasing its reimbursement percentage for counties that responded to disasters. “We’ve had of course the 2020 tornado and the 2015 ice storm that the county was out several million dollars ... Read More »

Tennessee Tech’s campus radio station WTTU celebrated its 50th anniversary this week. Program Director Hannah Koster said the celebration means a lot. “I made a brand new logo that was based on old logos that I kind of brought together,” Koster said. “I have redone the studio and made it more lively. My goal is to make it more alive, ... Read More »

Overton County will receive some $500,000 in FEMA reimbursements. County Executive Ben Danner said the county was reimbursed for the work it did during the ice storm two years ago. He said that before that, they had bid the work out and gotten outside help. “The last time we got a million back, but we had to borrow a million ... Read More »

The Caney Fork Boy Scout District raised some $58,800 to fund scouting during a Tuesday luncheon. More than 600 students participated in scouting locally last year including nine who reached Eagle Scout rank. Eagle Scout William Price of Troop 156 said he did know where he would be without scouting. “All I can do is express gratitude,” Price said. “I’ve ... Read More »

The City of Baxter has named John Ramsey its new Director of Public Works. This new position combines the duties of the Water Superintendent and the Street and Sanitation Supervisor. The change will go into effect next week. Read More »