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Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012
Lead guitar man settles horse farm for family, music studio (02/03/12)
By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer When a man settles down, it's usually for love, admittedly amid whatever raucous lifestyle he's embraced. For Alf Batz, life as lead guitar-man for the heavy metal band Iron Maiden - the band's performed for crowds of 300,000 people - is behind him, although he's been back to Europe for something of a victory lap just for the fun of it all...
$13M job ahead of schedule (02/01/12)
By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer Construction of Lewisburg's $13.14 million public works project is ahead of schedule, the city's Water and Wastewater Department superintendent reported to the utility board during its January meeting. The work is to:...
Hundreds apply for variety of jobs at Heartfelt Home Accents (01/27/12)
By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer For Heather Wright and her fiancé, Willie J. Carter, applying for a job through the Goodwill Career Center on Wednesday was like taking a step toward a marriage ceremony. Wright and Carter are postponing their wedding until they feel financially secure enough to move out on their own and then start a family. Both are unemployed. Both live with her father in Petersburg. Both went to Marshall County High School...
Party celebrates loss of 100 pounds (01/27/12)
By Karen Hall Staff Writer Lots of people were wearing oversize clothes at the Briar Patch in Cornersville last Saturday. It was "I Lost 100 Pounds" night in honor of Thomas Lance - everybody calls her Thomas - who's lost over 100 pounds since she had bariatric surgery last year...
Businesses, players raise money for kids' Christmas shopping (01/25/12)
From staff reports With hope for another "3 on 3 Tournament" to support the Cops For Kids program, tournament officials report several hundred dollars were raised by the Saturday afternoon event at Lewisburg's Recreation Center. The business-sponsored tournament has been held before, but Saturday was the first time admission proceeds were donated to the Cops For Kids program that provides youngsters with money for Christmas shopping each December...
Berlin's fire truck arrives (01/20/12)
Available for public viewing Monday
NAACP branch holds first ever march for Martin Luther King Jr. (01/19/12)
From staff reports The Lewisburg Branch of the NAACP conducted an MLK Day March down West Commerce Street on Monday, the day set aside as a national holiday to celebrate the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. "This is the first one, but it won't be the last one," Martha Lyttle said of the march from the parking lot where Ascend Federal Credit Union had offices on West Commerce Street to the east steps of the Marshall County Courthouse...
Spivey eyes House; Ketron Congress (01/17/12)
New political district lines for the state House and Senate and Congress raised extra speculation last week when redistricting maps were released from Capitol Hill in Nashville. Marshall County Republican Party Chairman Billy Spivey, a former chairman of the county commission, is considering a run for state House again. ...
Crimson Tide rolled with one of our own (01/13/12)
By Anthony S. Puca Sports Writer Anyone who watched Monday night's BCS championship game was awestruck at the suffocating effort turned in by former MCHS great Dont'a Hightower and his Alabama Crimson Tide defensive cohorts as they held undefeated and No. 1 LSU to five first downs, 93 total yards on offense, and just one trip into Alabama territory during the 21-0 blanking over the Tigers, marking the first ever shutout in any BCS Bowl game...
Food Lion grocery closing mid-February (01/13/12)
By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer Shoppers at the Food Lion that's closing here on Feb. 15 are sorry for the employees, they said while selecting groceries Thursday morning when the corporation made its announcement from offices in North Carolina...
Lowe presents killer plans for making new jobs (01/10/12)
By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer Lewisburg's economic development director virtually apologized last week for the way he outlined his goals for 2012, calling the presentation "Death by Power Point." Beyond his self-deprecating humor that started a fact-filled, 26-page "look at 2012 and beyond," Greg Lowe showed where Lewisburg shines compared to its competition when attracting new employers, and he said what he wants to do by the end of the year...
Band wins $25,000 (01/06/12)
From staff reports The Marshall County High School Band is to receive $25,000 from the Pepsi Cola Co. because the band leader's appeal for a corporate grant attracted enough votes on an Internet Web site to qualify for an award of that much money. "I got a phone call Monday from Global Giving, the ones who are handling the Pepsi Grant Program," Band Director Alex Sears said Tuesday. "They congratulated us for our voting and I'm in the process of filling out paperwork to confirm our project...