Two more inmates at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center died over the past two weeks after testing positive for COVID-19.

Webster’s Dictionary defines alarmist as “one disposed to expect or prophesy calamity.”

Trousdale County’s School Board set Friday, June 26, 2020 as the makeup date for graduation during its May 14 meeting.

The Hartsville/Trousdale County Commission will take a first vote on the proposed 2020-21 budget at its upcoming meeting.

Trousdale County Schools will take a short break from its emergency feeding program and then resume in June, school officials announced Monday.

A Hendersonville man was killed on May 15 in a motorcycle accident on Highway 141 in Hartsville.

As part of a phased approach for reopening facilities as part of its COVID-19 reopening plan, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is opening its corps-managed campgrounds within the Cumberland River Basin in Tennessee on June 1.

Editor’s Note: The following are suspects booked in the Trousdale County jail during the specified timeframe. All persons charged are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

I’m not quite sure from where the motivation came; but years ago one of my goals, when I began to seriously make the professional speaking circuit, was to make a speech in each of the 50 United States. The first 20 or 30 states came rather quickly. The last 10 or so were a while in coming.

Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration Commissioner Butch Eley announced Tuesday that revenues for April were less than the monthly revenues from the previous year.

Jim Satterfield Middle School recognizes those students who made the Principal’s List and Honor Roll for the third nine weeks of the 2019-20 school year.

Construction of a meat-processing plant in Hartsville could begin as soon as next week after the Planning Commission gave site approval for plans during Monday night’s meeting.

Trousdale County’s Parks & Recreation Committee voted Tuesday night to keep the park’s swimming pool closed for the 2020 season amid concerns over the spread of COVID-19.

Members of the Budget & Finance Committee gave preliminary approval last Thursday to the sheriff’s budget request and that of the school system during the second night of 2020-21 budget hearings.

Tennessee Tech and MTSU have both set goals to bring students back to campus this fall, offering the traditional college experience students say they expect.

In last week’s column I wrote of how, in the face of our being required to practice social distancing due to the coronavirus, we have in fact been becoming more distant socially in the post-modern era for quite some time now.

While businesses are beginning to return to normal in Trousdale County, government facilities are also working on plans to reopen.

Trousdale County Schools are moving ahead with registration for pre-K and Head Start for the 2020-21 academic year.

Newly released unemployment data shows the jobless rate dropped in two-thirds of Tennessee’s 95 counties during March 2020. The unemployment data for the month does not take into account the impact of the COVID-19 health emergency.

Trousdale County taxpayers can expect to see no increase in property taxes as part of the 2020-21 budget.

Trousdale County voters will have the opportunity in August to vote on a half-cent sales tax increase.

In 2020 a record number of area nonprofits are busy preparing in a big way for The Big Payback’s seventh annual, 24-hour online giving day.

Trousdale County Schools’ effort to feed children during the extended school closure is “going quite well,” officials reported.

Over a third of inmates tested last week for COVID-19 at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center came back with positive results, CoreCivic announced Monday.

Robert Fulghum wrote an interesting book a few years ago titled, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. As best I can recall, one of the lessons he learned in kindergarten was how to follow directions. I learned that lesson in kindergarten. So as we continue to fight the corona…

In just more than four months, high school football season is scheduled to kick off across Tennessee, bringing with it the return of a much-needed sense of normalcy.

The state of Tennessee has begun providing economic relief to thousands of self-employed individuals by paying Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits made available to them through the federal government’s CARES Act.

The Tennessee gas price average continues to decline and has dropped nearly 4 cents since this time last week. The Tennessee Gas Price average is now $1.56 which is 25 cents less than one month ago and nearly $1.07 less than one year ago.

The recent events due to the coronavirus and social distancing have really hit everyone hard. Small business, medical personnel, and workers who have been laid off have all had their fair share of difficulties. Local farmers are no different.

A Lafayette man and a Hartsville woman were arrested on Sunday evening after they allegedly were carrying weapons around a Lafayette residence and attempted to flee from law enforcement.

I feel like I’ve been in a time warp for the past month. Normal activities that mark the progress of our days and weeks are missing. I’m reminded of the movie “Groundhog Day” where the same day is repeated over and over.

We are all at a crossroad. The difficulties we have all experienced with the COVID-19 quarantine has affected our jobs, community activities, worship services, our children’s education and socialization. We have lived through a pandemic that will go down in history. Some of us have had the v…

Having grown up in the South, I have, for most of my life, considered the mid-day meal to be dinner.