After 101 years, a Murfreesboro business is still going strong. Scales and Sons Funeral Home, was one of the first African-American owned businesses in Rutherford County. To really understand the total impact the Scales family has made on the Rutherford County community, we have to go way back. The year was 1916, a time when…
The man who violently murder an elderly woman, mutilated, stuffed her body in a suitcase, and dumped it along the side of a road in Bedford County pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Thursday. William Brace was sentenced to life in prison, having to spend at least 51 years behind bars before he’s eligible for parole….
Police are searching for a man who reportedly broke into an Aaron’s in Murfreesboro. Murfreesboro police reported the incident occurred at the location on Northfield Boulevard on Feb. 10. It is unknown what, if anything, was taken from the business. No additional information was released. Anyone with information is asked to call Murfreesboro police at…
Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation (GBBF) and Rutherford Books from Birth’s local sustaining partner, United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties, celebrate the launch of a new birthing hospital partnership with Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital Tuesday afternoon to begin enrolling newborn babies into Tennessee’s Imagination Library program. Through this partnership, each family of a newborn…
Congratulations to Puckett’s Grocery & Restaurant for their ribbon cutting on Monday, February 13th at 4:30pm. Puckett’s Grocery & Restaurant is located at 114 North Church Street (On the Murfreesboro square), Murfreesboro, TN 37130 and can be contacted at 629-201-6916.
When MTSU’s Keith M. Huber met country music entertainer Rodney Atkins for the first time Thursday (Feb. 16), they discovered they had much in common. Huber, senior adviser for veterans and leadership initiatives at MTSU, served nearly 40 years in the military, retiring as a lieutenant general. Atkins has entertained for troops with the USO…
The newest greenhouse in Murfreesboro City School’s grant-funded Farm to School program is now at Discovery School. The greenhouse provides students a protected and secure environment to learn about the growing process year-round. Murfreesboro City School’s Farm to School program began in 2015. MCS students have gained access to healthy, local and regionally sourced foods…
Nothing Bundt Cakes has leased a 1,803-square-foot retail space at Fountains at Gateway, the new Class A office and retail development in Murfreesboro, announced developer Scott Graby, president of Hearthstone Properties. It will be located in an 11,200-square-foot retail building facing Medical Center Parkway, just inside the entrance to the Fountains development. Nothing Bundt Cakes…
When Brenda was 12, her mother was killed in an automobile accident. For the next two years, Brenda rarely spoke. “I didn’t want to say nothing to nobody,” she recalled. “My mom was my world.” It was just one difficult episode in what many people might consider a hard-knocks life. Brenda was born without eyesight….
Expansion of the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center will further help veterans — on campus and in the community — in the transition from the military to civilian life. MTSU held a ribbon-cutting for the Daniels Center Veterans Transitioning Home Tuesday (Feb. 14) in Keathley University Center Room 316 thanks to…