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TREE SHINES BRIGHT ON SQUARE IN HICKMAN In recent years, many residents have relocated from the Hickman community for various reasons. Meanwhile, numerous other Hickman area natives have passed away. However, a sense of community still resonates through the small hamlet. At no time is it more evident than during the Christmas holiday season. Volunteers…

HOLIDAY CONCERT @ GHS CANCELED DUE TO ONLINE POST Gordonsville School became caught up in a wave of social media threats targeting schools across the nation last week. The incident resulted in the school’s Winter Band Concert being canceled on Monday night of last week, according to school officials. Once the potential threat had passed,…

SHERIFF’S DEPT. K-9 UNIT INVESTIGATION LEADS TO CHARGES A man faces multiple charges following a sheriff’s department K-9 unit investigation in Gordonsville. Sgt. Ridge Long was paroling in the area of the Pilot Travel Center when he encountered a red Dodge pickup truck parked in a gravel parking lot. After Sgt. Long parked his vehicle…

GRAND JURY MEETS FOR DECEMBER; MAN FACE EXPLOITATION CHARGES It was an unusually light regularly scheduled meeting of the December meeting of the grand jury. Only two indictments were returned. A Pleasant Shade man faces exploitation of a minor charges after being indicted during the December grand jury. Christopher Andrews, 23, Pleasant Shade, was indicted…

2 OF 5 CASES IN SO. CARTHAGE MURDER RESOLVED Cases against two of five men charged in connection with the April, 2019, murder of a man discovered beaten to death in a former South Carthage tobacco warehouse have been resolved. The two men, James Michael Burns and Jeffrey Ivan Kolb, both of Greenbrier, settled on…

TORNADO STRIKES COUNTY EARLY SATURDAY (The following information gathered from Emergency Management Agency Director Sonny Carter and other individuals.) A severe thunderstorm spawned a tornado and heavy rainfall, resulting in substantial damage in some areas of the county in the early morning hours of Saturday. Monday morning, Director Carter said a representative with the National…

DAMAGE REPORTED FROM STORM A serve thunderstorm swept through the county with high winds and heavy rainfall, Monday morning. The high winds resulted in isolated damage, mainly in the northern section of the county in the Pleasant Shade, Difficult and Defeated areas. There was a report of a shop being blown down at the home…

CORPS TO ASSIST WITH EROSION PROBLEM The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District (USACE) has plans to correct an erosion problem on the Cumberland River threatening the Carthage Wastewater Treatment Plant. The federal agency recently received an appropriation to initiate what it calls an “emergency streambank stabilization project” to correct the problem. A 90,000-gallon…

FIRE DESTROYS HOUSE THURSDAY MORNING Fire consumed a residence located near the Lancaster community, Thursday morning. The fire was reported at 7:12 a.m. at 368 Lancaster Highway. The house was fully engulfed upon arrival of emergency personnel. Dante Kania lived by himself at the residence. Kania was not at home when the fire started. Lancaster…

GUILTY PLEA ENTERED IN 2020 2ND DEGREE MURDER A second degree murder case in which a Wilson County man was accused of providing illegal drugs resulting in the death of a Pleasant Shade man has been resolved. Bailey Alexander Underwood, 24, Lebanon, was indicted on two counts of second degree murder in connection with the…