BUSINESSMAN SHOULDERS PASSES Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon (October 25) for longtime Smith County businessman Jack Shoulders. Shoulders, 81, passed away Saturday afternoon at Saint Thomas West Hospital in Nashville, following a battle with brain cancer. A Four Way Inn community native, Shoulders opened the Shoulders Phillips 66 Service Station in Monoville in 1958.…

GLENN PETTROSS PASSES Funeral services were held Sunday for well-known retired Carthage businessman, U.S. Army veteran and government leader Glenn Pettross. Pettross, 87, who resided in Carthage, passed away of cardio-pulmonary failure on Wednesday of last week at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville. Pettross began his business career as a salesman for Mixon-Nollner Oil Company…

THE GRAVEDIGGER’S TALES Frank Thomas Dug 8,000 Graves But Never Buried A Soul Few people have lowered more dead bodies down into the good Tennessee earth than gentle giant Frank Thomas. Throughout his 45-year career, this 7-foot-tall Liberty native paid passionate attention to the details of carving out a perfect rectangle in the ground, a…

MAN CHARGED WITH SEXUAL BATTERY A Carthage resident has been charged with sexual battery by an authority figure. Tarun Suresh Patel, 35, allegedly “inappropriately touched one of his juvenile female employees at his place of work on or about Tuesday (October 18)”, according to an affidavit of complaint filed by Gordonsville Police Sgt. B.J. Jackson…

COUPLE FACES DRUG CHARGES A Gordonsville couple faces a host of drug-related charges following a traffic stop and narcotics investigation. Charges were filed following a traffic stop on Hogan Road in Gordonsville, Sunday around 3 p.m. Jeremiah Shane Sokolosky, 37, and Shanessa Laneil Sokolosky, 27, have been charged with five counts of manufacture/delivery/sell of a…