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Beavers to chair judiciary committee

State Sen. Mae Beavers was named chair of the judiciary committee Friday – a move which elevates the Mt. Juliet Republican to one of the most influential posts on Capitol Hill. In her second term as state senator, Beavers will chair the committee that considers all criminal and civil laws as...

TEMA testing MJ air, water after massive fire

The day after a massive blaze demolished S & S Industries Inc. in Mt. Juliet what's left of the factory still smoldered and county fire officials awaited the results of professional tests performed to check air and water quality there. S & S Industries is located in the heart of Mt. Juliet and was...

Trousdale Co. eyed as site for CCA prison

Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America has Trousdale County in its sights as a possible location for a privately-owned minimum security prison facility. Dick Walker, director of Four Lake PowerCom Industrial Site, said today the Four Lake office received a correspondence from CCA repr...

Bible course may be unconstitutional

Oct. 11, 2006 — Portions of a Bible curriculum proposed to Wilson County School Board members were deemed unconstitutional by a federal court in Florida in the 1990s. A National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools (NCBCPS) proponent asserted to school board members last week that th...

Jessen's role in land deal under scrutiny

Dec. 21, 2006 – Already under the cloud of a state ethics investigation, Mayoral Assistant Debbie Jessen has again become involved in a land deal which involves the City of Lebanon. While her role is unclear, The Lebanon Democrat can confirm Jessen attended a Dec. 12 meeting at a private offi...

Construction on new jail could end this summer

If all goes according to plan, Wilson County inmates could have a new place to lay their heads this summer. Four years after the original bond authorizing its construction, officials handling the building of the new Justice Center say the building phase of the project is nearing the homestretch, ...

Police pickup shooting suspect

A man suspected of shooting a Lebanon man in his room at the Plaza 231 Inn was arrested Thursday leaving the Inman Court federal housing project. Julius Baskerville, also known as "Six-Nine," was apprehended around 2:15 p.m. Thursday as he was leaving the housing project. Police had a residence th...

Finance committee approves Dedman plan to move Elections Commission

The Wilson County Financial Management committee unanimously approved last night a plan by County Mayor Bob Dedman to move the Elections Commission from its current home on South College Street to the former Nave Funeral Home on East Main Street. "I was going to use that building for records," Ded...

Timeline set for director search

Wilson county public schools should have a new top administrator starting July 1 under a timeline approved by the Board of Education last night. In December, the board voted to hire the Tennessee School Board Association, an organization that represents school boards across the state, to conduct t...

LSSD returns $900,000 in overpaid funds to county

Lebanon Special Schools must return more than $900,000 in funds overpaid by the county. School officials say the repayment will not affect the system's budget and that it was due to an error at the county trustee's office during property assessments early in 2006. LSSD Director Dr. Sharon Roberts...