HISTORY MADE
By Shea Haile Courier Sports The Smith County High Lady Owls volleyball team completed a historic postseason run as the 2024 unit became the first in program history to qualify for Substate / Sectionals. The Black-and-Gold’s postseason surge began in the District 8A Tournament where the Lady Owls claimed a 3-2 semifinal victory over Trousdale…
Read MoreK-9 units make arrests; Female discovered in hideout underneath floor
By Eddie West Staff Writer Separate investigations conducted by sheriffs department K-9 units led to two arrests on drug-related charges. One of the investigations took place in the Chestnut Mound community, another in the Brush Creek area. In the Chestnut Mound investigation, a female was discovered hiding in a specifically designed hideout underneath the floor of…
Read MoreWilliam Walton Harvest Festival Saturday
By Eddie West Staff Writer The annual William Walton Harvest Festival will take place Saturday. The annual event was postponed from its original date in September because of rain from remnants of Hurricane Helene. Each year the festival features various craft and food vendors, live entertainment, pioneer craft demonstrations, activities for youth and a beauty pageant.…
Read MoreEAGLES RUMBLE PAST OWLS
By Terry Collins Courier Sports WESTMORELAND — The Smith County High Owls football team travelled to Westoreland for a Region 3-2A matchup last Friday night. The Owls had won the previous four matchups over the Eagles by posting shutouts during that span. Westmoreland, who beat East Robertson 7-6 15 days earlier, needed a win over the…
Read MoreObit – Mr. James Hunter
A Southern gentleman with a smile and laughter as a part of his outgoing personality, has died at the age of 71. Mr. James Hunter of the New Middleton Community departed this life at the Highpoint Health – Riverview Hospital in Carthage surrounded by his family where he was admitted October 8th with a fractured…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Geraldine Sircy Likens
Mrs. Geraldine Sircy Likens age 77 of the Defeated Creek Community was discovered unresponsive at the Holliman Lane home of her daughter on Friday morning October 18, 2024. She was pronounced deceased at the Highpoint Health – Riverview Emergency Room. Graveside services and interment were held Monday morning October 21st at the Davis Cemetery in…
Read MoreObit – Matthew Climer
Master Matthew Climer age 9 of Carthage was pronounced deceased at 11:31 a.m. Saturday morning October 12, 2024 at the Highpoint Health – Riverview Emergency Room following an untimely vehicle accident at the family’s Fite Avenue East home. Bro. Bernie Morris assisted Matthew’s pastor, Pastor Scott Nesbitt, at the 1 p.m. Thursday afternoon October 17th…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Lela Florence Carr
Mrs. Lela Florence Carr, age 87 of Plunketts Creek, TN, passed away on Monday, October 14, 2024. Mrs. Carr was born November 21, 1936 in Lebanon, TN, a daughter of the late Elzia N. Allmon and Maude Ella Denney Allmon. She married William Howard “Buddy” Carr on May 29, 1952 and he preceded her in…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Judy Fuson
Mrs. Judy Fuson age 71 of Smithville, TN passed away on Friday night, October 18, 2024 at the Webb House Retirement Home. Mrs. Fuson was born on June 2, 1953 in Smithville, TN to her parents, the late J.B. & Ruth Beckwith Taylor. In addition to her parents she is preceded in death by an…
Read MoreLegal & Public Notices For The Week Of 10/24/24
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,…
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