Smith Co. takes down border rival Jackson Co., secures playoff spot
By Terry Collins Courier Sports CARTHAGE — The Smith County High Owls football team faced 5-2 Jackson County in Homecoming 2024 last Friday night in Carthage. The Owls needed a win to wrap up a playoff berth in Region 3-2A. Smith Co. used a 21-0 second half surge to key a 35-14 victory over the Blue…
Read MoreLADY OWLS REIGN; Smith Co. girls soccer claims 5th straight district crown, outscore 5-1A foes 40-0
SUBMITTED The Smith County Lady Owls Soccer Team has done it again. For the fifth year in a row they are District Champions. The Lady Owls finished this regular season 11-2-1 with a District Record of 6-0. This past week the District Tournament was hosted at York Institute. On Tuesday Smith County played York in…
Read MoreLegal & Public Notices For The Week Of 10/17/24
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE Default having been made in the payment of the debts and obligations secured to be paid by a certain Deed of Trust executed February 15, 2019 by LORI D. SULLENS, unmarried woman, to Donald R. Barrett, Jr., as Trustee, as same appears of record in the office of the Register of Smith County, Tennessee,…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Lola King
A Godly Christian Lady, Mrs. Lola King, has ended her earthly journey and is now enjoying her heavenly home after being pronounced deceased at 1 p.m. Friday afternoon October 11, 2024 at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where she was resting from a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Mrs. King was…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Vergil Gochcoff
Mr. Vergil Gochcoff age 90 of South Carthage ended his earthly journey at 5:10 a.m. Thursday morning October 10, 2024 with his son and daughter-in-law at his bedside at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where he had made his home since October 11, 2023. Bro. Bobby Peoples officiated at the 3…
Read MoreObit – Ms. Sara Sloan-Cox
Ms. Sara Sloan Cox age 82 of Lebanon passed away at 10 a.m. Saturday morning October 5, 2024, at The Pavilion in Lebanon. Graveside services were conducted on Thursday October 10th from the Pleasant Shade Cemetery with Eld. Ricky Hackett and Eld. Junior Dickerson officiating. Interment followed in the Sloan family lot beside her sister…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Buddy Meachum
Mr. Buddy Meachum of Antioch in Davidson County died at his Hickory Woods East home on Tuesday afternoon October 8, 2024 with his loving wife at his bedside. He was pronounced deceased at the age of 81 at 12:01 p.m. by Gentiva Hospice of Nashville who had been assisting the family during his illness. Mr.…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Richard Fairchild
Mr. Richard Fairchild of Lebanon departed this life with his wife of thirty-one years holding his hand. The 83-year-old Mr. Fairchild and his wife Shannon were both residents of Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where he was pronounced deceased at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday evening October 9, 2024. Mr. Fairchild was at the…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Terry Franklin
Mr. Terry Franklin of the Halls Hill Community was discovered deceased at his Hartsville Pike home and was pronounced deceased at 6:55 p.m. Friday evening October 11, 2024. The 65-year-old Mr. Franklin had been in declining health for almost five years. A memorial celebration of life is scheduled to be conducted from the Carthage Chapel…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Mildred Jean Apple
Mrs. Mildred Jean Apple, age 96 of the Pea Ridge Community in Smith County, TN, passed away on Tuesday, October 8, 2024. Mrs. Jean was born May 6, 1928 in Old Hickory, TN, a daughter of the late Charles Scott Fitzpatrick and Hattie Lee Payne Fitzpatrick. She married Frank Halliburton Apple on December 3, 1952…
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