MTSU was named reserve national champion — a second-place showing — at the American Stock Horse Association collegiate championship show in Sweetwater, Texas, earlier this spring. This comes following MTSU winning the Division II national championship in 2016. The National Collegiate Championship brings together collegiate and individual riders from across the country to…
The Discovery Center kicks off Secret Garden Week 2017 on Thursday, June 1. A highlight of the summer social season in Middle Tennessee, the series of events allows participants to get a sneak peek at beautiful gardens hidden in backyards in and around Murfreesboro. Tickets and information are available at www.explorethedc.org/sgp. Secret Garden Week, which raises…
Dust off your lawn chair and your dancin’ shoes…the 2017 edition of the popular, FREE Friday Night Live Concert Series isthis Friday, June 2nd, 6:30 – 9:30 pm Local favorite, The Pilots, will kick off the concert series, and will keep you dancing to a broad range of tunes that you know and love from the fifties…
Do you recognize this man? He is accused of using a victim’s skimmed credit card information to buy $184.35 worth of merchandise at Wal-Mart on South Rutherford Boulevard April 10, said Sheriff’s Detective Jason Dowdle. The suspect wore a Nashville Predators cap and T-shirt. He drove away in a dark-colored SUV. People who know his…
In Nashville, we’re especially impacted by millennial consumer patterns. Since 2010, the Nashville area grew by more than 32,000 people a year – a pace of about 89 people per day. Millennials – generally considered those born between the early 1980s and early 2000s – account for nearly 30 percent of Nashville’s total population. The…
Ufit Personal Fitness is growing! The Murfreesboro-based fitness studio recently announced the addition of David Harris, CSCS, to its ever-growing team of personal trainers. Harris joins Ufit with more than 15 years of professional experience in the physical fitness field. The McMinnville-native earned a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from University of Tennessee Knoxville and…
One year ago, the Blue Angels graced the skies of Nashville. The Navy’s elite flight team was building anticipation as they prepared for the Great Tennessee Air Show. “They only do so many shows a year, and we’re pretty lucky to get them,” said John Black, the director of the Smyrna Airport. But in a…
The Murfreesboro apartment complex where a teen was shot and killed during an attempted robbery is making changes to keep tenants safe. Kendrick Love, 18, was shot in the torso outside the Gateway Apartments on May 16. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. Just over two weeks after Love’s…
A 21-year-old motorcyclist was seriously hurt in a Murfreesboro crash Wednesday evening. The accident involving a 2001 Suzuki GS-6 and another vehicle happened near the intersection of Medical Center Parkway and Warren Street just before 6:30 p.m. Andrew Ahrens was taken to St. Thomas Rutherford before being airlifted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with life-threatening…
MTSU award-winning student journalist Sarah Grace Taylor made her way to Japan in recent weeks after being chosen as one of nine winners of the Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition. The Old Hickory, Tennessee, native returned home May 20 from the eight-day journalism study tour to Japan, an expenses-paid trip that gave…