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Job fair today in Lebanon

Tennessee Career Centers partnered with state Sen. Mae Beavers to hold the Wilson County Summer Job Fair. The event is today from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Wilson County Fairgrounds. Attendees should come to the East/West Building at 945 E. Baddour Parkway in Lebanon. Participatin...

BREAKING NEWS: Registered sex offender found working at school

Police charged a registered sex officender Tuesday when his probation officer found out he was working at a Mt. Juliet middle school. Kenneth Thomas worked for a temporary employment agency and was working a construction job at West Wilson Middle School when his GPS tracking device alert...

Council trims proposed tax hike

A couple of cuts in the proposed Lebanon budget for next year would trim some of the bill headed to taxpayers. The Lebanon City Council met with Finance Director Russell Lee via conference call Wednesday in a budget work session after the council’s attempt and failure to pass the bud...

BREAKING NEWS: Mt. Juliet man killed in motorcycle wreck

A 28-year-old Mt. Juliet man was killed in a motorcycle accident Tuesday in Putnam County, according to the Cookeville Herald-Citizen. The accident happened on Highway 96 near Smith County around 1:50 p.m., according to Tennessee Highway Patrol reports. Joshua Jernigan was traveling...

Civil rights leader dies

“Ultimately, every one of us is just one more marine,” said the Rev. Will D. Campbell. “There's not really anything special about any one of us, except that there is something special about us all.” Campbell’s 1972 comment, found in his oral history at the Uni...

BREAKING NEWS: Lawrence suffers allergic reaction at CMA Fest

Country singer and Wilson County resident Tracy Lawrence experienced an allergic food reaction Wednesday while preparing for his annual fan club party in Nashville, which caused him to seek immediate medical treatment. Lawrence was hospitalized for observation at Nashville hospital and is ...

More rain equals more mosquitoes

Voices are proclaiming the mosquitoes are worse than usual this spring, and they are right. Individuals spending a significant amount of time outdoors may have noticed the pests buzzing around in large numbers. According to University of Tennessee entomology professor Frank Hale, the mosqu...

Medical manufacturing company breaks ground in Mt. Juliet

A medical manufacturing company broke ground Wednesday on a 240,000 square-foot facility slated to bring 100 jobs to Wilson County. Hollister Corp. will house its facility in the Beckwith Farms Industrial Park. Officials with Hollister braved the rain to compliment local officials, includi...

Photo guild lends ‘Eye on the Arts’

The Wilson County Photography Guild played host to “Eye on the Arts” on Tuesday night at the Stonebridge Subdivision Clubhouse in Lebanon. Each year, the guild organizes a fundraiser to help the community. This year the event was a benefit for the Friends of the Tennessee...

Disaster relief center opens in Wilson County

The Missions Mobilization Center of the Tennessee Baptist Convention cut its ribbon Saturday in Mt. Juliet. Pictured (from left) are Mark LeMay, TBC staff; Susan Lynn, state representative; Bob Brown, chair of the TBC Executive Board of Dandridge; Jeanne Davis; Randy C. Davis, TBC executive direc...