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Life lessons; WCSO presents mock car crash to students

The surreal scene of two crushed cars sitting still in the Mt. Juliet Christian Academy parking lot cast a pall among the crowd of students watching, just days before their prom. The occupants of the cars were groaning, bleeding and one was still. Dead.  Students were riveted by the t...

Fiddlers Grove becomes historic site

The Fiddlers Grove Foundation held an official dedication Sunday to designate Fiddlers Grove an official historic site from the Association of the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities.   APTA is the oldest nonprofit historic preservation organization in Tennessee and fourth oldest in...

Hargett comes to county archives bearing gift

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett visited the Wilson County Archives on Monday to present archive staff with a $2,000 grant from the state for the preservation of the archives.

Supplies still needed for Brooks House babies

Timing is everything, and last Saturday the Wilson County Sheriff Department's attempt to collect supplies for the babies of Brooks House went on despite a torrential downpour. But the shelter, which aids women and children in crisis, didn't receive as many baby items as was hoped.

Local soldiers' body returns home

The body of a Lebanon airman who drowned in a swimming accident nearly two weeks ago in Gunsan, South Korea arrived in Nashville on Monday and was escorted by special motorcade to Lebanon.

13 in ’13: Life’s good in Wilson County

Wilson County Mayor Randall Hutto said government’s role in providing a good quality of life for residents isn’t too difficult, rather it just comes naturally. Hutto listed quality of life as one of his priorities this year. Those 13 items, highlighted in Hutto’s S...

Democrat names new marketing manager

The Lebanon Democrat and Mt. Juliet News hired recently a longtime Mt. Juliet resident to bring closer and build upon the relationship between the two newspapers and Wilson County community. Publisher Joseph H. Adams named Charity Toombs as marketing manager of the two newspapers recently....

Rocker faces prior DUI charge in similar incident

Mt. Juliet resident and 3 Doors Down bassist Robert Todd Harrell – who made national headlines this month after his arrest on a charge of vehicular homicide by intoxication in Nashville – told police in D'Iberville, Miss. he had taken five prescription drugs when he was arrested last ...
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