Stories from Monday, June 29, 2009

CHAPEL HILL - A 16-year-old boy drowned in the Duck River on Thursday evening between a Henry Horton State Park boat ramp and the Nashville Highway bridge over the river. Funeral services for Douglas Van Orden III of Lewisburg were held at 10 a.m. Monday, June 29, in the chapel at London Funeral Home. Burial followed in Whorley Cemetery, the mortuary said...

Waste Management Inc., the company that operates Cedar Ridge Landfill just west of Lewisburg, says its leaders believe the landfill is the source of pollution in the water and creek bed down stream from Vickrey Spring near Poteet Road. "We received preliminary results from sampling of Vickrey Branch and, based on our initial review, we believe the source is from Cedar Ridge Landfill," Waste Management Community Relations Manager Terri Douglas said in a hand-delivered, one-page letter dated Thursday and addressed "Dear Neighbors.". ...