Obit — Judy Green
Mrs. Judy Kinslow Green age 68 of Lebanon departed her earthly journey to begin her heavenly life on Sunday October 11, 2026 after battling an extended illness. A Celebration of Life for Mrs. Green’s life will be conducted on Thursday evening October 22nd at 6 p.m. from the Sellars Funeral Home on Baddour Parkway in…
Read MoreLegal & Public Notices For The Week Of 10/15/26
STATE OF TENNESSEE PROBATE COURT OF SMITH COUNTY AT CARTHAGE NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF Samuel Richard Haynes Case#80CH1-2026-PR-2969 Notice is hereby given that on the 9th day of October, 2026, Letters of Administration in respect to the estate of Samuel Richard Haynes, Deceased, who died on the 23rd day of August, 2026, were issued…
Read MoreTigers’ Perfect Ending
MIDDLE SCHOOL FOOTBALL Gordonsville Junior High 32, Overton County Middle 0 By Shea Haile Courier Sports (Stats provided by GJHS football) CARTHAGE — Last Tuesday night, the Gordonsville Junior High Tigers football team capped a perfect 8-0 season with a 32-0 Highland Rim Championship victory against Overton County Middle School. The Junior High Tigers culminated…
Read MoreRoad Warriors
Smith County 21, Moore County 0 By Terry Collins Courier Sports LYNCHBURG — The Smith County High Owls football team made their longest trip of the season with a trip to Lynchburg last Friday night. to face Region 5-1A Moore County — both teams had lost five games in a row entering the contest and…
Read MoreCreekbank Invasion
Gordonsville 42, Trousdale County 0 By Shea Haile Courier Sports HARTSVILLE — The objective was simple for the Gordonsville High Tigers football team last Friday night — take down long time nemesis and region foe Trousdale County on the storied “Creekbank” and secure the 4-2A throne and top-seed for the second straight season. The Tigers…
Read MoreEarly voting gets underway for elections
By Eddie West Staff Writer Early voting in all November 3 elections is underway. Early voting began Wednesday, October 14 and continues through Thursday, October 29. Elections include state and federal races, three proposed amendments to the Tennessee Constitution, a special county election to fill vacant county commission seats as well as city elections in…
Read MoreDifficult resident records rainfall for agency before 6 a.m. each day
By Eddie West Staff Writer Each morning most residents reach for their first cup of coffee or favorite fruit juice to begin the day. Difficult resident Jerry Vogt has a somewhat different morning ritual. Before 6 a.m. every day, the former Nashville resident checks a specially designed rain gauge attached to a railing on the…
Read MoreOfficials say billion dollar natural gas pipeline needed with demand
By Eddie West Staff Writer Construction of a proposed $1.3 billion natural gas pipeline which would pass through Smith and nine other Middle Tennessee counties is “market driven”, according to a Houston, Texas based energy development company. Kinder Morgan is proposing the “Southeast Connector Project” which is the construction of a natural gas pipeline which…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Jean Smith
Mrs. Jean Rollins Smith, age 94, of Hickman, TN, passed away Saturday, October 10, 2026. Mrs. Jean was born October 9, 1932, in Gordonsville, TN, daughter of the late Charlie Lee Rollins and Julia Bell Winfree Rollins. Mrs. Jean was a graduate of Gordonsville High School. She married Robert Nelson Smith on April 1, 1956,…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Joe Holbrook
Mr. Joe Holbrook, age 87, of Lebanon, passed away on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at The Pavilion in Lebanon. He was born Joseph Glynn Holbrook on August 7, 1939 in the New Middleton community of Smith County to the late Ralph Holbrook and Ruth Bradford Holbrook. He was a 1958 graduate of Gordonsville High School.…
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