Legal & Public Notice For The Week Of 08/21/25
STATE OF TENNESSEE PROBATE COURT OF SMITH COUNTY AT CARTHAGE NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF Jackie Donald Colton, Sr. Case#80CH1-2025-PR-2894 Notice is hereby given that on the 15th day of August, 2025, Letters Testamentary in respect to the estate of Jackie Donald Colton, Sr., Deceased, who died on the 10th day of May, 2025, were issued to the undersigned by the…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Judy Harris
With family members at her bedside, Mrs. Judy Harris, a homemaker of Carthage, answered the call from her heavenly father to come home at 6:20 p.m. Thursday evening August 14, 2025 at her Horizon Circle home. She was pronounced deceased at 8:13 p.m. by Amedisys Hospice of Murfreesboro at the age of 72. Bro. Gordon…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Sammy (Sam) Oldham
Mr. Sammy (Sam) Oldham age 84 of Lebanon, died at the Cedar Creek Post Acute Center in Mount Juliet on August 13, 2025. Memorial services were conducted on Friday afternoon August 15th at 2 p.m. from the Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Bro. Kevin Medlin officiated and burial was in the Bethlehem Cemetery in the Tuckers…
Read MoreObit – Eld. Leon White
A well-known and highly regarded Missionary Baptist minister for over fifty-one years, Eld. Leon White, has died at the age of 92 exactly six months to the day following the loss of his wife of twenty-three years, Ruby Webb Wilson White, who died at the age of 95 on February 1, 2025. Eld. White entered…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Mary Akers
Mrs. Mary Akers of Dickerson Hollow in the Pleasant Shade Community departed this life at the Highpoint Health – Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin August 9, 2025. Visitation will be on August 23, 2025 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Chapel Hill United Methodist Church, 92 Beasley Road, Riddleton, Tennessee with memorial…
Read MoreObit – Master Johnathan Hernandez
Master Johnathan Hernandez, new born son of Amber Marie Seagraves Hernandez of the Rome Community and Abdiel Hernandez Escalante of Parksley, Virginia, was pronounced deceased at birth at 12:54 a.m. Thursday morning August 14, 2025 at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Master Hernandez was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home and…
Read MoreObit – Ed Copeland
Ed Copeland passed on after a long battle with illness on Sunday, the night of August 10th, 2025, at Cookeville Regional Medical Center. In life, he was a pillar of the community, serving many clients as their financial advisor, always taking the utmost care in managing not only their funds and portfolios, but in so…
Read MoreMultiple indictments by grand jury
By Eddie West Staff Writer The county’s grand jury met for its August session on Monday of last week, returning a number of indictments. A majority of the indictments were for drug related offenses. READ MORE IN THIS WEEK’S COURIER
Read MoreTVA — cooling tower to come down
By Eddie West Staff Writer A controversial iconic landmark located in the far western section of the county is expected to be demolished next month. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) officials say the agency will implode the massive cooling tower at the former Hartsville Nuclear Plant site which straddles the Smith/Trousdale county line on Highway 25/Dixon…
Read MoreSchool directors’ contract surfaces
By Eddie West Staff Writer Discussion of the director of schools contract is on the agenda for the county school board’s regularly scheduled August meeting. The school board will be meeting for its August session beginning at 5 p.m., Tuesday (August 19). At the school board’s July meeting Chairman Ricky Shoulders noted Director Barry Smith had…
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