A Sarasota, Fla., Sheriff's major has accepted Lewisburg's offer for him to be the city's next police chief, City Manager Eddie Fuller said Monday, reporting the new chief's first day on the job will be on or about May 1. Chuck Forbis, commander of the Law Enforcement Division of the Sarasota County Sheriff's Department, will succeed Interim Chief David Ray who stepped up to that position upon the reassignment of former Chief Doug Alexander... more

Marshall County Commissioner Sam Smith resigned as chairman of the commission on Monday night and commissioners elected Commissioner Mary Ann Neill as his successor. Neill was elected 13-4 over County Mayor Joe Boyd Liggett who had been a candidate for chairman of the County Commission in the weeks after he took office in September 2006. Smith had been chairman for 3-1/2 years... more

Scissors in hand, Melanie Gordon snips her way through her current art project. Scherenschnitte is a new love for her. The German art of paper cutting is also known as silhouette. She traces the shapes of skipping goats for a cutting depicting the history of the fainting goats of Marshall County... more

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Feb. 25, 2008 -- Con-way Truckload, a full-truckload carrier and subsidiary of Con-way Inc., announced the opening of a driver orientation site here. Con-way Truckload plans to hire more than 250 experienced professional truck drivers in the Greater Cookeville area over the next 12 months... more

Marshall County Stone has complied with conditions imposed by county officials when they granted the business authority to proceed with development of a new quarry on State Route 99, according to an employee of the business. Wilford "Spider" Wentzel, a Marshall County commissioner and a MC Stone employee who operates the quarry's scales, reported Monday that by sunset that day the company's road to and from the quarry would have been paved, thus completing conditions in a special use permit... more

Asked what they would like to see in Lewisburg's future in the next 20-25 years, an informal group of Leadership Marshall participants took a philosophical approach. They expressed the hope that their government is prepared to implement smart growth policies and that area residents stand ready to act responsibly for the community's well-being... more

The question to the members of Lori Beardsley's sixth-grade class at Oak Grove Elementary School is this: How many of them plan to stay in Lewisburg once they graduate high school or college? Here and there a few hands are tentatively raised. Outside, the temperature remains stubbornly below the freezing mark. A scattering of desultory snowflakes can be seen blowing in the wind, as if foreshadowing a cold, bleak future for the city... more

Representatives of both sides of the dispute raging over the quarries near Chapel Hill were present at the Board of Zoning Appeals meeting Tuesday evening. Andrew Hoover, attorney for "Marshall County Residents for Responsible Zoning LLC" said his clients were appealing any action of Marshall County that permits a quarry in a rural area. They maintain that the zoning should not have been changed and a special use permit should not have been given to Marshall County Stone... more

Mrs. Idell "Pickle" Dean, 65, of Columbia, died Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008, in Columbia, after an extended illness. Mrs. Dean was a native of Maury County. She was a homemaker and a member of the Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, Doris and Elvia Mae Cates Stewart, and her husband, Johnnie Smith Dean... more

Attempted first-degree murder was alleged, but attempted voluntary manslaughter was the verdict Friday evening from a Marshall County jury in the case of a man who kicked and stomped his father's girlfriend so badly that she had to have a hip replacement... more

That name. The opening night curtain has not yet gone up on the Dixie Theatre's spring production and already it's got Marshall County residents talking and scratching their heads. For weeks now passers-by and motorists on the square have wondered if maybe a word might have been misspelled or if perhaps a letter or two had been left off the theater marquee. Could they really be putting on a play called Urinetown? Here? In Lewisburg?... more

Marshall County's school board was ordered last week to stop negotiating with its Teacher Advisory Council, according to the education association's lawyer. However, the board's attorney contends they weren't negotiating. That's the latest in a Chancery Court case filed May 21 by the Marshall County Education Association against the school board alleging bad faith in teacher contract negotiations. ... more

The Marshall County Education Association Spelling Bee was held Monday, Feb. 11, with more than 50 of the county's best spellers taking the stage, each vying for top honors. During the evening the young men and women were faced with words that even adults have trouble spelling, such as pumpernickel, obsequious, bureaucracy and ceremoniously... more

His students describe him as a great man who was patient, caring, fair and very, very nice. In his 41 years in the Marshall County school system, Arnold Quarles made quite an impact on his students. "He was the epitome of any director you could ask for. I couldn't have asked for a better one," said Randal Jones of his seven years in the band with Quarles. "He was top notch, he knew his stuff."... more

Marshall County commissioners are preparing to budget money to repair their historic courthouse on Lewisburg's public square because it's still leaking. Rain is leaking through the clock towers on the roof, according to Chuck Maloney, a Lewis County contractor brought in to examine the building. He reported to the commissioners during their informational meeting last week... more

Owner Jeff Ellis says his twice-a-month auctions "bring a bit of excitement to the square." Saturday night there were vehicles from as far away as Mississippi parked near the courthouse and about 50 people were seated inside The Emporium listening to auctioneer Stacey Pope, of Athens, Ala., work his way through a variety of antiques and collectibles that had been consigned... more

The Tennessee Court of Appeals has upheld Marshall County Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell's dismissal of complaints by former Lewisburg Public Housing Authority Executive Director Jerry Freeman, who claims he blew the whistle on unethical contracting at the public housing project and it cost him his job... more

A Marshall County Circuit Court jury was expected to consider an attempted murder charge today against a man who moved here from Illinois and is accused of beating a woman so badly that she needed a hip replacement. Jury selection was set to begin yesterday morning for the trial of John Patrick Vigneau, 37, of 2151 Finley Beech Road... more

Zoning land for businesses was the subject of requests that received a warm welcome in all but one instance during Tuesday night's meeting of the Lewisburg City Council. Lewisburg Economic Development Director Terry Wallace reported to the council about a proposal to annex land fronting Old Belfast Road... more

NASHVILLE -- The deadline for returning completed Census of Agriculture forms may have come and gone, but it's not too late for Tennessee farmers to speak up for the communities, their industry and their future. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service reminds farmers that their voices are important and need to be heard. As a result, Census responses are still being accepted... more