Plenty of new laws will take effect in Tennessee on July 1, but the impact you’re likely to see most directly is at the pump. Gas taxes are going up through the IMPROVE Act, Gov. Bill Haslam’s plan to work on a multi-billion dollar backlog of road projects. The tax on a gallon of gas…
July 3 Clarksville – 10th annual Independence Day Celebration Monday, July 3 at Liberty Park Park opens at 5 p.m. with activities and music at 6:30 p.m. Concerts will take place on the Great Lawn of the Wilma Rudolph Event Center Smyrna – Independence Day Celebration Monday, July 3 at Lee Victory Recreation Park Begins…
Middle Tennessee State University is responsible for about 8,400 jobs across the state, which generates $1.12 billion in revenues and over $408 million in wages and salaries, a new economic report released Tuesday (June 27) shows. The report by the Business and Economic Research Center in the Jones College of Business shows MTSU, as…
Relatives of a man murdered 40 years ago still wonder who took his life, robbing his then 2-year-old son with a relationship with his father, a sheriff’s detective said Tuesday. The body of Stanley Smith, 26, of Murfreesboro, was found March 25, 1977 in an abandoned house near the Stones River Battlefield, said Detective Steve…
Center for the Arts explores what it means to be an American with its production of Ragtime on July 7-23. The Tony Award-winning musical with book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens is directed by Rachel Jones, a newcomer to Center for the Arts. At the dawn of a…
For a second consecutive year, Goodwill has been ranked No. 1 in a survey measuring people’s perceptions of the global value of major brands. Goodwill, the leading nonprofit provider of employment placement, job training and education services, topped brands such as Amazon, Google, Kellogg’s, Microsoft and other Fortune 100 and 500 brands in the 2017…
A suspect wanted for felony sale of cocaine was apprehended after sheriff’s narcotics detectives and Murfreesboro Police’s Directed Patrol located him Friday outside a Medical Center Parkway business, a sheriff’s supervisor said Tuesday. Suspect Orlando Chesterfield, 37, of North Academy Street in Murfreesboro was arrested after narcotics detectives did surveillance on the business, said Sheriff’s…
A multiple county police pursuit ended in a crash involving at least six vehicles at a busy Murfreesboro intersection Tuesday morning. Williamson County deputies began chasing a rental truck suspected of being involved in a burglary on Interstate 840 near Arno Road exit around 6:45 a.m. The pursuit crossed into Rutherford County where the truck…
Following back-to-back second-place finishes in 2015-16, MTSU’s solar boat team placed eighth overall — and racked up two major awards along the way — in the annual Solar Splash international competition. The event was held earlier in June on the lake adjacent to the Clark County Fairgrounds in Springfield, Ohio. Solar Splash, officially…
17-R-PH-30 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing before the City Council of the City of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, will be held in the Council Chambers of the Murfreesboro City Hall, 111 West Vine Street, in said City on Thursday, July 13, 2017, beginning at 7:00 o’clock P.M. for the purpose…