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Lebanon schools set to meet

The Lebanon Board of Education will hold its monthly meeting Monday, and the agenda includes recognition of paraprofessionals and teachers of the year from each of the system's schools. The meeting will be at 5 p.m. at Winfree Bryant Middle School Th...

Wilson schools prep for Common Core

School may be wrapping up for the summer soon, but the work is just about to ramp up for Wilson County schools as they continue their transition to Common Core standards. “It will be a transition year next year [for Wilson County],” said Monty Wilson, instructional supervisor f...

Schools look at budget shortfall

Wilson County Board of Education began budget discussions Thursday for the upcoming school year. “There’s not going to be a lot of new revenue coming from property taxes and sales taxes to make up for what we took out of our fund balance,” said Don Weathers, board chairma...

BREAKING NEWS: Recreation league games, practices canceled

All baseball and softball games and practices scheduled for Friday, May 10 are canceled in both Mt. Juliet and Lebanon. Makeup game schedules will be available on respective league websites.

April sales tax revenues spike

Wilson County sales tax revenues showed a significant increase in April, which stands as the second highest in collections in the past year. The Tennessee Department of Revenue released Friday sales tax collections for Wilson County that showed totals for April increased about $500,000 com...

Interest attracts homebuyers in April

As the weather get warmer, so does the real estate market in Wilson County, according to Amy Hamilton, Eastern Middle Tennessee Association of Realtors public relations chair. Hamilton said the market produced quicker sales for sellers, buyers and sellers having to deal with multiple offer...

Hatcher steps down in newspaper sale

Sam Hatcher will step down as publisher of The Wilson Post following the announcement Lebanon-based Main Street Newspapers LLC was sold Thursday to Dave Gould, former advertising executive at The Tennessean. The sale includes the twice-weekly Post, along with weekly newspapers Gallatin New...

Haslam touts record during visit

Gov. Bill Haslam wasted little time before he fielded questions Thursday from members of the Lebanon Breakfast Rotary Club. A flurry of questions came from the packed house at the Lebanon Golf and Country Club but not before Haslam had some questions of his own for the audience. Simply, he...

‘Ag Gag’ bill found ‘constitutionally suspect’

State Attorney General Robert E. Cooper Jr. called the proposed “Ag Gag” bill “constitutionally suspect” Thursday only hours after Gov. Bill Haslam said he awaited the attorney general’s opinion to make a decision on whether he would veto it. The bill is the f...

Students rocket to national competition

The seven-girl team of rocketeers from Winfree Bryant Middle School left Lebanon Thursday to begin their pursuit of a national title in the Team America Rocket Challenge. The girls qualified for the competition in April and are the only team to qualify from Tennessee....