American Idol contestant set to play here this month
By Eddie West Staff Writer A former American Idol contestant has an upcoming concert in South Carthage. Country music artist Alex Miller will be performing at the Smith County Agricultural Center. A singer/songwriter Miller appeared on American Idol Season 19 as a contestant. While Miller was not the top contestant that season, the Kentucky native…
Read MoreBrush Creek horror author’s new book
A Brush Creek author plans to hold a book launch party at the Carthage Junction Depot. A fiction writer, Ronald Kelly will be unveiling his new book Southern Fried and Horrified at the depot from noon until 4 p.m., September 3. Southern Fried and Horrified is Kelly’s new memoir and writing guides. The event will…
Read MoreCOURIER NETS 2ND PLACE – DIVISION I – TPA AWARDS
The Carthage Courier collected a record 14 total awards and landed 2nd Place for General Excellence among Division I newspapers from across the state in last Friday’s 2022 Tennessee State Press Contest Awards held at the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville. The awards, sponsored by the University of Tennessee (UT) and Tennessee Press Association…
Read MoreObit – Robert C. “Bob” Stanley
Robert C. “Bob” Stanley, 79, passed away in Carthage, on 8/9/2022 after a valiant fight with lung cancer. Bob was born 2/11/43 in Huntington, IN to Robert E. and Betty “Joan (Niemann) Stanley. He was preceded in death by his father. Bob graduated from Huntington High School in 1961. He retired from Dana Corporation…
Read MoreLegal & Public Notices For The Week Of 09/01/22
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 May 15, 2006, and the Deed of Trust of even date securing the same, recorded May 17, 2005, in Book No. 149, at Page 361, in Office of the Register of Deeds…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Carl Braiden Looper
Funeral services for Carl Braiden Looper, Age 72, of the Dry Hollow community of Monterey, were conducted on Monday, August 22, 2022, At 11:00 AM from the Chapel Of Goff Funeral Home. Bro. Estel Bilbrey officiated and interment followed in the Harris Chapel Cemetery. Mr. Looper was born on Tuesday, February 7, 1950, in Monterey…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Geraldine Shoulders Gregory
Mrs. Geraldine Shoulders Gregory, age 98, of Smithville and a longtime resident of the Four-Way-Inn community, died peacefully with her daughter, Brenda, present at the daughter’s Fairdale Lane home in Smithville where Mrs. Shoulders had lived since declining health had overtaken her. Mrs. Gregory was pronounced deceased at 1 p.m. Monday afternoon, August 22, 2022,…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Linda Guffey Cunningham
Mrs. Linda Guffey Cunningham, of Carthage, died at 9:12 p.m. Wednesday evening, August 24th, at the Southern Hills Hospital in Nashville where she was admitted earlier that day, suffering from respiratory arrest. Graveside services were conducted on Tuesday morning, August 30th, at 11 a.m. with Eld. Dewey Dyer officiating. Interment followed in the Guffey family…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Kathy Langston
Mrs. Kathy Langston, of Lebanon, died at her Wheeler Street home in Lebanon on Sunday evening, August 21, 2022, and was pronounced deceased by Avalon Hospice of Lebanon at 6:19 p.m., at the age of 66 Mrs. Langston was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Graveside services were conducted Saturday, August 27th, at…
Read MoreObit – Ms. Ellen Grenfell
Ms. Ellen Grenfell, of Murfreesboro, died at the age of 79 at 9:07 p.m. Sunday evening, August 21, 2022, at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where she had made her home since March 17, 2022. Mrs. Grenfell was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. She was cremated at the…
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