Van Buren HS Selling Hanging Baskets, Vegetables and Flowers
Hanging baskets, tomato plants, flower trays or pepper plants, the Van Buren County High School Spring Plant Sale has what you need. Agriculture Teacher Kurt Maynard said the sale is ongoing until the greenhouse is empty. Maynard said the plants are grown in a 30 by 50 state of the art greenhouse on campus. Maynard […]
Environmental Firm Draining Wright Lake To Restore Brady Branch Stream In Monterey
A restoration project at Wright Lake in Monterey moving forward to re-establish the Brady Branch stream system. MRW Environmental in Sparta will conduct the work. Managing Member Ken Morgan said the environmental consulting firm will drain Wright Lake and re-establish the stream. “This project will restore Brady Branch, which had been dammed up and formed […]
Putnam To Receive Extra FEMA Payments After Federal Changes
Putnam County will receive some $300,000 as a result of FEMA increasing its natural disaster reimbursement funding. Mayor Randy Porter said TEMA notified the county that the federal government is increasing its reimbursement percentage for counties that responded to disasters. “We’ve had of course the 2020 tornado and the 2015 ice storm that the county […]
Tennessee Tech’s Campus Radio WTTU Celebrates 50 Years
Tennessee Tech’s campus radio station WTTU celebrated its 50th anniversary this week. Program Director Hannah Koster said the celebration means a lot. “I made a brand new logo that was based on old logos that I kind of brought together,” Koster said. “I have redone the studio and made it more lively. My goal is […]
Overton To Receive $500K In FEMA Reimbursement
Overton County will receive some $500,000 in FEMA reimbursements. County Executive Ben Danner said the county was reimbursed for the work it did during the ice storm two years ago. He said that before that, they had bid the work out and gotten outside help. “The last time we got a million back, but we […]
Caney Fork Boy Scouts Raise Almost $59,000 To Fund Scouting
The Caney Fork Boy Scout District raised some $58,800 to fund scouting during a Tuesday luncheon. More than 600 students participated in scouting locally last year including nine who reached Eagle Scout rank. Eagle Scout William Price of Troop 156 said he did know where he would be without scouting. “All I can do is […]
Baxter Names John Ramsey Public Works Director
The City of Baxter has named John Ramsey its new Director of Public Works. This new position combines the duties of the Water Superintendent and the Street and Sanitation Supervisor. The change will go into effect next week.
Overton Holding Public Hearing To Discuss Grant Application For Child Care
Overton County Commission will hold a public hearing Wednesday to discuss applying for a child care creation grant. The opportunity to apply for the Community Development Block Grant comes from the state’s Economic and Community Development department. The meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Millard Oakley County Services Building.
Baxter Explores Preliminary Plans For Full-Time Firefighters
City of Baxter starting to explore preliminary numbers to have full-time firefighters. Chief Matthew White said that currently there are only 12 part-time firefighters during the day, and 14 volunteers at night. “It’s important for us especially, and I believe all the council are on board with it, they’re looking too to make this a […]
Tuesday Storms Cause Outage In Cookeville
Tuesday morning storms had Cookeville’s Electric Department dealing with an outage in the South Willow Avenue area. Director Carl Haney said that the outage was the result of what they suspect to be a lightning strike to a circuit breaker. “Typically it can cause damage from cracking some insulators to something like this to where […]
