Cookeville’s Merry And Bright Holiday Home Challenge Returns
Cookeville’s Seventh Annual Merry and Bright Holiday Home Challenge gives you the chance to transform your home into an award-winner. The event is an exterior single-family home decorating contest around a 15-mile radius of Cookeville’s Historic Courthouse Square. Cookeville Leisure Services Recreation Programmer Sally Herren said the contest is meant to boost holiday cheer for […]
Crossville’s Week-Long Display Honoring Veterans Underway
Crossville’s second annual Field of Honor display continues all week to pay respect to Cumberland County veterans. The display will be up through Veteran’s Day. It features a field of 700 flags, each one purchased by someone in the area and dedicated to an American veteran. Organizing Committee Chair Jean Smith said it is an […]
Cookeville Public Works Begins Coordinating Leaf Pickup
Cookeville Public Works began its annual leaf pickup around city neighborhoods Monday. The leaf pickup will be using three, four-man crews, scheduling routes largely based on demand. Cookeville Director of Public Works Blake Mayo said leaf pickup is very important this time of year for cleanliness and safety. Mayo said that citizens are encouraged to […]
Tennessee Tech Hosting Presentation On Recent Cultural Immersion Tour
Tennessee Tech graduate and doctoral students will share experiences from their recent Cultural Immersion Tour during a Tuesday seminar. Students participated in the National Science Foundation’s National Traineeship Program. Program Coordinator Sabrina Beur said the tour is meant to give students a good understanding of the culture and history of the communities Tennessee Tech partners […]
King Concerned About School Letter Grade Criteria Revealed
The state has revealed the criteria it will use to assign schools letter grades, but Putnam County’s Director of Schools said the reveal came with more concerns. The state will grade schools annually based on four separate indicators: overall success rate for achievement, overall growth, growth for the lowest-performing 25 percent of students and a […]
Cookeville Working To Rehab South Jefferson Lines Before Repaving
Noticed the bumps on South Jefferson Avenue? The City of Cookeville is working to replace water and sewer lines on South Jefferson Avenue before T-DOT begins repaving the street north of the interstate. Water Quality Control Director Barry Turner said that most of the patchwork currently visible on South Jefferson is the result of the […]
Hard Time Sleeping During Time Changes? CRMC Expert Has Advice
Did this weekend’s time change interrupt your sleeping patterns? The Cookeville Regional Sleep Center’s Lori Joines said time change sleep issues are quite common. Joines said when your biological wake and sleep clock, is disrupted, it can lead to problems. “When we go through either the spring forward, where we lose an hour of sleep, […]
Baxter Senior Center Outgrowing Current Location, Seeking New Building
The Baxter Senior Center is outgrowing its current location and has begun the search for a new building. Senior Center Director Brent Lee said the number of seniors the center services has tripled over the last year. He said the center has gone from serving an average of 10 to 15 to people to 40 […]
Van Buren Solid Waste New Hours Start Monday
New hours for the Van Buren County Solid Waste Convenience Centers will take effect starting Monday. With daylight savings set for Sunday, the centers will mirror the time change with new hours. The Spencer location will continue to have the most availability, open four days a week from 8 am to 4 pm, and 8 […]
Two Putnam County Schools To Install Ballistic Film Over Doors
Ballistic film will be installed at two Putnam County Schools, Prescott Elementary and Middle Schools, marking the first installation of the protective security device. Director of Schools Corby King said while high-powered rounds can still shoot through the film, the aggressor cannot bust through the glass as was seen at the Covenant School shooting in […]
