SCHS LADY OWLS SOCCER STATE BOUND
Shea Haile Courier Sports The Smith County High Lady Owls soccer team (15-2-1) secured a spot in the program’s first Class 1A State Tournament last Saturday with a dramatic and hard fought 2-1 victory over STEM Prep in the 1A Sectionals. “I am thrilled to see this team reach this level and to see their hard…
Read MoreDirector not asking for extension
By Eddie West Staff Writer Planning is underway to take applications for director of schools. This comes as Director of Schools Barry Smith is not seeking a contract extension. School board members were to discuss an extension of the current director’s contract during this month’s meeting which was held l a s t T u e s d a y (October 21) night. However, at the beginning of the meeting School…
Read MoreBIG BLUE ROLLS ON; GHS (9-0) posts dominant victory over RBS in non-region finale, keeps perfect run intact
By Shea Haile Courier Sports GORDONSVILLE — The Gordonsville Tigers football team kept their perfect 2025 run intact and the hopes of a potential 10-0 regular season alive with a 42-0 victory over former Region 4-1A foe Red Boiling Springs. Big Blue had a last minute change to their Week Ten tilt with the Bulldogs as…
Read MoreOWLS STUMBLE LATE; Smith Co.’s fourth quarter lead evaporates as Tellico Plains scores in waning seconds
By Terry Collins Courier Sports TELLICO PLAINS — The Smith County High Owls football team made the long journey to Tellico Plains in East Tennessee last Friday night. The unit had hopes of going over .500 for the second time this season. The Class 2A matchup featured a pair of 4-4 teams as the two teams…
Read MoreLegal & Public Notices For The Week Of 10/30/25
STATE OF TENNESSEE PROBATE COURT OF SMITH COUNTY AT CARTHAGE NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF Peggy Halliburton Case#80CH1-2025-PR-2909 Notice is hereby given that on the 16th day of October, 2025, Letters Testamentary in respect to the estate of Peggy Halliburton, Deceased, who died on the 26th day of September, 2025, were issued to the undersigned by the Probate Court of Smith…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Carolyn Halliburton
Mrs. Carolyn Halliburton age 83 of the Defeated Creek Community entered into eternal rest on Wednesday afternoon October 22, 2025 with her sons and sisters at her bedside at The Pavilion in South Carthage, where she resided. Larry Cole officiated the 1 p.m. graveside services at the Patterson Cemetery in the Russell Hill Community on…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Kathy Lynn Lambert Grisham
Mrs. Kathy Lynn Lambert Grisham age 63 of the Elmwood Community was pronounced deceased on arrival at the Highpoint Health- Riverview Emergency Room at 3:59 p.m. Friday afternoon October 24, 2025. She was discovered unresponsive at her Elmwood Community home on Cookeville Highway home by her son and Smith County dispatched a unit to the…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Lester Duke
Mr. Lester Duke of the Hiwassee Community died at 1 a.m. Thursday morning October 23, 2025 on his 71st birthday with his family at his bedside. He was pronounced deceased at 4:44 a.m. by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston. At his request, he was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where arrangements were made…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Gertrude “Granny” Burnett
Mrs. Gertrude, more lovingly known as Granny, Burnett of the Tanglewood Community, died peacefully at the age of 92 at 9:45 p.m. Thursday evening October 23, 2025 at the Pavilion Assisted Living in Lebanon where she was admitted August 4th. Granny suffered from congestive heart failure. Mrs. Burnett was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson…
Read MoreObit – Miss Barbara Huddleston
Miss Barbara Huddleston age 88, of Cookeville and formerly of Sikeston, Missouri died peacefully at 6:35 a.m. Sunday morning October 19, 2025 at the Waters of Gainesboro where she had made her home since September 23, 2005. Miss Huddleston was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Graveside services and interment was on Thursday…
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