Area News

By Eddie West Staff Writer While conditions were far from ideal, the county was spared from a winter storm which threatened to paralyzed the county with heavy snow and ice. Not to be overlooked is numerous vehicles sliding off roadways or becoming stuck in snow and ice, life-threatening cold temperatures, an abundance of slip and falls…

By Eddie West Staff Writer The process of selecting a new director of schools is moving forward with a series of school board meetings. Board members were presented with 12 applicants for the position during its January 20 meeting by school board Attorney Robin Moore. Applications had been mailed to Attorney Moore’s office. School board members…

By Eddie West Staff Writer Construction on what will be a new skills instruction facility for the county’s school system is underway. The project includes the refurbishment of the former Save-a-lot building located on Industrial Drive in Carthage. Once rehab is completed plans are for the building to become an instruction facility for multiple technical trade…

By Eddie West Staff Writer Is a penny still worth one cent? Since a halt in production last fall, questions surround the coin. Some residents are storing them away with the thought some day they may become a collectible item. This might be the case but only for certain pennies. For example, pennies made before 1981…

By Eddie West Staff Writer One person died after the vehicle which they were driving left the roadway, struck a tree and traveled into the Cordell Hull Lake in the Defeated community.  The single vehicle accident occurred in the Defeated community Thursday night around 5:40 p.m. in the area of 157 of Lakeside Drive. The victim…

By Eddie West Staff Writer Preliminary construction including right-of-clearing for a more than one billion dollar natural gas pipeline which will cross the northern section of the county is well underway. When completed, the 122 mile natural gas pipeline will run from Trousdale County in Middle Tennessee to Roane County in East Tennessee. Known as the…

By Eddie West Staff Writer A man faces multiple charges related to a motor vehicle accident which occurred in September of last year. Two Dickson County residents were killed in the accident. The county’s grand jury indicted James Paul Hilliard, 34, Garner, North Carolina, on two counts of vehicular homicide and one count of aggravated assault…

By Eddie West Staff Writer It’s not fantasy. As an adult, a Smith County High School graduate is living his dream in the comic book world in a most unusual place for someone who grew up in the south. As a youth, Steven Boyd lived with his family on a farm in the Pleasant Shade community…

By Eddie West Staff Writer Stepping inside the front door to Mikie and Ed Coogan’s home is not an ordinary experience. An eight feet tall snowman, which greets guests just inside the home’s entrance, is the first sign of an out of the ordinary experience which lies ahead. Next to catch the eye are the precisely…

By Eddie West Staff Writer More than 300 new jobs are expected to be created in Smith County with plans to resume local zinc mining operations in the near future, state officials have announced. On October 31, 2023, Nyrstar Middle Tennessee Mines (local zinc mines) enacted a “temporary pause in production” at the local mining facilities…