Stories from Monday, March 16, 2020

Ethridge “Sister” McKennon Copeland, 94, of Mount Pleasant, passed away on Sunday, March 15, 2020, at NHC Maury Regional Transitional Care. Sister was born on Jan. 14, 1926, to the late Bud McKennon and Inez Odom McKennon in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee. ...

Starting Tuesday, March 17, Marshall County schools will be closed until Monday, April 6. School Director Jacob Sorrells announced the closure Monday morning, as the state attempts to contain the spread of the coronavirus, COVID 19. Gov. Bill Lee issued a statement on Monday morning, in which he “urged” all of the state’s school systems to close as soon as possible until at least March 31...

Shirley Ann Griggs, 68, of Lewisburg, died Saturday, March 14, 2020, at Maury Regional in Columbia, TN. She was a native of Phoenix, AZ, the daughter of the late Thomas Hart and Hazel Canfield Hart. She was a custodian with the Arizona School System and a member of the Bluff Springs Church of Christ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority awarded $5,000 grants to Cornersville High School and Westhills Elementary School as part of a program to develop science, technology, engineering, and math education projects all across the Tennessee Valley. The competitive STEM classroom grant program, operated in partnership with Battelle Education, received more than 290 grant requests from across TVA’s seven state service territory...

Association leadership will meet via conference call over the next two days The TSSAA Board of Control and Legislative Council will meet via conference call on Tuesday, March 17 and Wednesday, March 18, respectively. The Board of Control meeting will begin at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, while the Legislative Council meeting will start at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday. Both meetings were originally scheduled to take place at the DoubleTree Hotel in Murfreesboro, but due to the postponement of the state basketball tournament and other provisions being made statewide in regards to COVID-19, the decision was made to conduct the meetings via conference call.