Obit – Mrs. Hilda Polston Flatt
Mrs. Hilda Polston Flatt age 74 of the Difficult Community was discovered deceased by her daughter at the Flatt family’s Kemp Hollow Road farm home. She was pronounced deceased at 7 a.m. Thursday morning June 27, 2024 at the Highpoint-Health Riverview Emergency Room. Mrs. Flatt was at the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Pat Donoho Christian
Flatrock Community homemaker and retired nurse, Mrs. Pat Donoho Christian, was pronounced deceased at 3:15 p.m., Sunday afternoon June 30, 2024, one day before her 84th birthday at the Saint Thomas West Hospital in Nashville. Mrs. Christian had made the decision to donate her body to the Genesis Group in Memphis for an anatomical study…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Payten Bailey Cowan
Mr. Payten Bailey Cowan age 33, of the Love Valley Community of DeKalb Co. passed away Monday July 1, 2024 at Sumner Regional Medical Center after a short illness. Mr. Cowan was born February 27, 1991 in Lebanon, TN, son of Robert Glenn (Bobby) Cowan Jr. and Amanda Faye Green Cowan. He was a 2009…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Patricia Ann Anderson
Mrs. Patricia Ann Anderson, age 50 of Lebanon, TN passed away Saturday July 6, 2024. Mrs. Anderson was born on August 7, 1973 in Arab, Alabama a daughter of the late Delmer Spurlock and Edith Currie Spurlock. She was married to Billy Anderson on September 8, 1992. She worked as a metal fabricator at AFI…
Read MoreObit – Denise “Scoot” Summar
Denise “Scoot” Summar passed away on June 30, 2024 at age 64. The Funeral Service, conducted Brother David Rhodes, is 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 3, 2024 at Hillcrest Baptist Church (621 Hartsville Pike), Lebanon TN. Burial in Smith County Memorial will follow the service. Pallbearers: Kevin, Michael, and Andy Summar, Wynn Gentry, Scott Brewer, Maddux…
Read MoreDean Hill tragedy averted
By Eddie West Staff Writer A pleasure excursion aboard a single engine airplane went wrong over the skies of Smith County Tuesday morning. However, depending upon one’s perspective, the day couldn’t have turned out better for the two people aboard the aircraft following an emergency landing in a well manicured field in the northeastern most…
Read MoreSchool system’s closed borders policy
By Eddie West Staff Writer The county’s school system will retain it’s “closed border” policy for students attending local schools, following action taken by the county’s school board. It’s an issue which has been discussed at length by the school board members in previous years and surfaced at its June meeting under the agenda line…
Read MoreALL-STAR SUMMER
Shea Haile Carthage Courier Gordonsville High Class of 2024 graduate and GHS Tigerettes softball standout Kelcie Watts has had an elite All-Star summer on the diamond. Watts, a power hitter in the Big Blue lineup and first baseman, was selected to the Tennessee Softball Coaches Association’s All-Star Event. The four year member of the Tigerettes…
Read MoreCUMBERLAND NETS OWLS’ RIGSBY
Shea Haile Carthage Courier A mainstay in the lineup for the Smith County High Owls basketball team, Clayton Rigsby, is pursuing a collegiate career at Cumberland University. Rigsby signed with the Lebanon based Phoenix program after posting 600 plus points during his four year career in the Black-and-Gold. “It is something I have always wanted…
Read MoreLegal & Public Notices For The Week Of 06/27/24
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE WHEREAS, default has occurred in the performance of the covenants, terms, and conditions of a Deed of Trust Note dated August 30, 2016, and the Deed of Trust of even date securing the same, recorded September 2, 2016, in Book No. 309, at Page 85, and modified on October 2, 2023, in…
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