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Council spends $1M more on landfill

April 19, 2006 Lebanon city councilors begrudgingly forked over an additional $1 million to cleanup the Wilson County Landfill amid a city official's insistence on the necessity of the project. The $1 million is being added on to the $2.4 million already appropriated to the Landfill Remediation Pro...

Squire's daughter hired again

April 18, 2006 Squires again voted to hire the daughter of one of their own for a full-time judicial commissioner position Monday night – and again defied a near-unanimous recommendation from the County Commission's Judicial Committee. That committee recommended William Earl Coggins, who earn...

Police arrest Mt. Juliet baseball coach on DUI

April 18, 2006 MT. JULIET – Mt. Juliet High School head baseball coach Mark Purvis was arrested Saturday on drunken driving charges while his passenger – and Mt. Juliet High assistant baseball coach – was arrested on public intoxication charged during a post-midnight back road sto...

Bryson kicks off campaign in Mt. Juliet

April 10, 2006 If elected governor, state Sen. Jim Bryson promised Wilson County Republicans he would not implement a state income tax. Bryson, R-Franklin, declared his opposition to a state income tax in his first official stump for governor as the Republican candidate Saturday in Mt. Juliet. Just...

Police chase suspect into Gladeville

April 12, 2006 The Wilson County Sheriff's Department and Metro Nashville Police Department gave conflicting reports about how a multi-county car chase ended in Gladeville on Tuesday morning, and about what happened to the robbery suspect who tried unsuccessfully to flee from city, county and state...

A Survivor's Story: I felt my feet come off the ground

April 13, 2006 Nineteen-year-old Parker Minor's voice quivered only slightly Wednesday as he sifted through a stack of photographs captured last week, mere moments after a deadly tornado ripped across Sumner County. "I was in the debris cloud," he said, still speaking with an air of disbelief. "All...

Elam, Dedman battling for top title

April 14, 2006 The race for county mayor may become a battle over fire service with Mt. Juliet Mayor Linda Elam challenging incumbent Robert Dedman. One-time Republican State Senate candidate Phillip Warren withdrew Thursday saying the "focus" of the race changed. Elam, a longtime proponent of coun...

Woman claims director 'volatile' - MJ public works leader placed on administrative leave

April 15, 2006 A Mt. Juliet city department head has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the results of an internal investigation into a harassment complaint filed Monday by a city employee, Mt. Juliet City Manager Rob Shearer confirmed Friday. Public Works Director Hatton Wright was p...

Rasmussen: I'm not guilty

March 31, 2006 Wayne Rasmussen, the 69-year-old Watertown resident who was indicted earlier this month on multiple charges of aggravated sexual battery, represented himself and pleaded not guilty to all charges before Criminal Court Judge J.O. Bond on Thursday. Before entering and upon exiting cour...

Ex-jailers plead for leniency

April 1, 2006 A pair of ex-Wilson County jailers received relatively lenient sentences from a federal judge Friday, who said his decisions were based in large part on the high level of cooperation both men demonstrated during the investigation and trial of their former colleagues. Brian Ferrell wa...