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Middle school teacher indicted on sex charges

A Wilson County grand jury indicted a Walter J. Baird Middle School math teacher earlier this week for allegedly having inappropriate communication with a 13-year-old female student. Hermitage resident Joseph P. Jones, 29, who was also the school's assistant basketball coach, was charged with two ...

Cooksey left $500,000 for UT Vet school

Everyone who knew him describes Bascom Cooksey, Jr. as a modest man. It should come as no surprise, then, that the extent of the late Wilson County businessman's philanthropy has not emerged until after his death. Cooksey died on March 10 at the age of 81. At the inaugural Wilson County Agricultur...

Mailbox vandals go on weekend spree

At least 145 mailboxes were beaten severely throughout Wilson County over the weekend, according to Wilson County Sheriff's Department reports. There were 39 bashed mailboxes along Quarry Road, 15 on Powell Grove, 31 on Martha Leeville, 14 on Double Log Cabin, 42 on East Old Laguardo, and isolated...

Housing sales dipped across area in March

Across the greater Nashville area, fewer homes were sold in March than in the same month last year. The 11 percent dip is part of a quarter-long trend downward for home sales across the region. According to numbers released by the Greater Nashville Association of Realtors Monday, 3,126 home closi...

Council looks for a slimmer budget

The Lebanon City Council met Tuesday night to begin the process of hashing out a budget for the upcoming fiscal year. However, the meeting came to an abrupt end when city council members demanded the budget be reworked to allow no more than a 5-percent spending increase for all city departments. ...

Bone says 40 cent tobacco tax could hurt business

Lebanon state House Rep. Stratton Bone praised the tobacco bills passed by the committee he chairs yesterday, but said that the future of the legislation remains uncertain. "This is just the first step," he said. "We don't know what's going to happen down the road." Bone, a Democrat, authored the...

Residents organize against development

The city air was filled last night with the sound of grassroots organizing. Two separate resident committees – one on Coles Ferry Pike and one on West Main Street – protesting new Planned Unit Developments drew the attention of city leaders on opposite ends of town. At Walter J. Baird ...

Sheriff's department looking for a few good men

With a second Wilson County Judicial Center scheduled to open adjacent to the jail within two months, preparations are well underway to maximize the safety and security of the new facility. There is just one problem – manpower. Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe, whose department oversees c...

Egg hunt a chilly affair this year

Chilly temperatures and gusting winds put a damper on the festivities at the annual City of Lebanon Easter Egg Hunt Saturday at the James E. Ward Agriculture Center. With high temperatures just barely making it into the 40s, there was a significantly smaller crowd on hand to chase down all the egg...

Edwards keeps flipping out at Superspeedway

GLADEVILLE — Carl Edwards hails from the Show Me State. But he's been flipping out in the Volunteer State recently. Two weeks after winning at Bristol, Edwards won his second straight Busch Series race at Nashville Superspeedway when he took the checkered flag for the Pepsi 300. "In enjoy t...