Area News

By Eddie West Staff Writer Personnel will be a main topic of discussion when the school board meets later this month. Discussion of an “extension” to Director of School’s Barry Smith’s contract is expected to take place during the meeting. In addition, pay increases for all board of education employees and providing insurance for all…

By Eddie West Staff Writer The County Finance Committee is calling attention to the latest Tennessee Comptroller’s audit of county offices. The county has four audit findings or deficiencies listed on most recent state audit report released on Tuesday (March 19). One of the findings pertained to the office of Director of Accounts and Budgets…

By Eddie West Staff Writer When Smith County High School’s band makes it’s 2024 marching debut later this year, plans are for a new look. Director Les McDonald and students have already spent months of planning and preparation for the upcoming season. In order to achieve his vision for the band, the director continues to…

By Eddie West Staff Writer If Smith County residents want to relive their “Great America Eclipse” experience of 2017, they will have to travel west to do so. Lake County will be the only county in Tennessee in the path of totality and that will only be for a brief one minute and 34 seconds. …

By Eddie West Staff Writer Fire gutted a longtime South Carthage business, Wednesday morning. The fire was reported at 8:21 a.m. at Swann’s Rebuilding, an auto related business. When the fire was reported, black plumes of heavy smoke were rising several feet into the air and could be seen in Carthage and surrounding area. South…

By Eddie West Staff Writer While there were several local offices up for election in last Tuesday’s Republican Primary Election, few were contested. The only mystery going into the election was the three of four school board seats which were challenged in the Republican Primary Election. In District 2 Tanglewood incumbent board member David Apple…

By Eddie West Staff Writer Carthage city officials are eying property located on Upper Ferry Road as the potential location of a new city hall. The location is a vacant lot and wooded area just east of the Elm Street intersection on the north side of Upper Ferry Road. The discussion surfaced under the topic…

By Eddie West Staff Writer Residents will be going to the polls Tuesday to participate in the March 5 Presidential Preference Primary Election, County Republican Election and a South Carthage referendun. Through Saturday (February 24) 750 people had voted early in the election. Early voting in the election which began on Wednesday, February 14 came…

By Eddie West Staff Writer An 11 year old boy was killed and three injured in a tragic single vehicle accident which occurred on Interstate 40, Thursday morning. The victim was thrown from a 2003 Subaru Forrester van onto the interstate roadway where he was run over by a tractor-trailer truck rig. A second juvenile…