Two face arson charges
By Eddie West Staff Writer Two juveniles have been charged in connection with a fire which destroyed a vacant mobile home in the Dixon Springs community. The fire destroyed the mobile home and threatened two decades old and historical significant buildings, one of which today is home to a medical clinic. Tuesday (December 24), Sheriff…
Read MoreNOTICE CHAD DICKENS The State of Tennessee, Department of Children’s Services, has filed a petition against you seeking to declare your child to be dependent and neglected. It appears that ordinary process of law cannot be served upon you because your whereabouts are unknown. You are hereby ORDERED to serve upon Laura Beth Whitley, Attorney for the…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Joan House
Mrs. Joan House of the Brush Creek Community has passed from this life to her eternal home at the Tri-Star Summit Medical Center in Hermitage at the age of 81 at 9:28 a.m. Christmas Eve morning December 24, 2024 and where she was admitted early Friday morning December 20th after suffering years of declining health. …
Read MoreObit – Mr. Fred B. Grisham
A Christian Southern Gentleman’s working tools of life were fallen from his hands at 12:17 a.m. Christmas Day morning December 25, 2024 at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville with his family at his bedside. He was admitted there Tuesday morning December 17th after suffering a fall at his Plunketts Creek Circle home. Mr.…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Frank Hart
37 year old Mr. Frank Hart of the New Middleton Community was pronounced deceased at 5:13 p.m. Wednesday afternoon December 18, 2024 at Highpoint Health – Sumner where he was admitted earlier that day suffering from cardiac complications and where he was admitted from Highpoint Health – Riverview in Carthage. Memorial services from the Carthage…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Shari Angelina Addy
Mrs. Shari Angelina Addy, “Angie Addy”, age 54, of Carthage, TN, passed away at her home in Carthage, TN surrounded by people who dearly loved her at 58 minutes past midnight on December 25, 2024 Christmas morning, from breast and liver cancer. Angie was born in Newport Beach, California on September 28, 1970, daughter of…
Read MoreLegal & Public Notices For The Week Of 12/26/24
STATE OF TENNESSEE PROBATE COURT OF SMITH COUNTY AT CARTHAGE NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF Mary Katherine Blackburn Case#80CH1-2024-PR-2831 Notice is hereby given that on the 18th day of December, 2024, Letters of Administration in respect to the estate of Mary Katherine Blackburn, Deceased, who died on the 21st day of November, 2024, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Nick “Terry” Willmore
Mr. Nick “Terry” Willmore age 79 of the Rome Community was pronounced deceased at the Macon Community Hospital in Lafayette after being discovered unresponsive at the Knollwood Nursing Home in Lafayette where he had resided for over a year. Mr. Wilmore was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where his funeral service was…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Barry Nathan Woodard
Mr. Barry Nathan Woodard, age 83, of Buffalo Valley, TN, passed away on Thursday, December 19, 2024. Mr. Woodard was born March 1, 1941 in Hartsville, TN, a son of the late Leslie F. Woodard and Johna Pearl Franklin. He married Joyce Ann Bennett on July 9, 1962 and she preceded him in death on…
Read MoreWheel tax petition falls short; new $50 tax could begin in month of January
By Eddie West Staff Writer A petition calling for a referendum or vote of the people on a $50 wheel tax approved by county commissioners this fall was not successful, according to the county’s election commission office. Residents had until November 27 (the day before Thanksgiving) to garner 529 names calling for a referendum. This means…
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