Juneteenth

Murfreesboro 2024 Juneteenth Street Festival Set for June 15 Near Bradley Museum

The Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center is hosting the 2024 Juneteenth street festival this Saturday, June 15, along multiple blocks of South Academy Street near the museum. This year’s celebration runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 15, with Bradley Museum serving as the hub at its location at 415 S. Academy…

Christina Penny Named Principal of Brown’s Chapel Elementary School

Christina Penny Named Principal of Brown’s Chapel Elementary School

As the new principal of Brown’s Chapel Elementary School, Christina Penny said her first priority will be establishing relationships with everyone. “Building relationships is my strength,” Penny said. “I just want to get in there and work hand-in-hand with the faculty and staff and really get to know those students and families.” Penny succeeds longtime…

BoroPride 2024

Celebrate Murfreesboro and Rutherford County’s LGBTQ+ Community in October at BoroPride

The BoroPride Planning Committee is pleased to announce the return of BoroPride Saturday, Oct. 12 to MTSU’s Tennessee Miller Coliseum. “We are tremendously excited to bring BoroPride back to the Tennessee Miller Coliseum this year,” said Dr. William Langston, member of the BoroPride Planning Committee. “The site was a perfect setting to celebrate the Murfreesboro…

MTSU, Nashville Sounds Honor Midstate D-Day Survivor at Military Appreciation Night

MTSU, Nashville Sounds Honor Midstate D-Day Survivor at Military Appreciation Night

The Nashville Sounds and the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center at Middle Tennessee State University teamed up on the 80th anniversary of D-Day to honor one of the survivors of the largest amphibious invasion in military history. Bill Allen, of Murfreesboro, was a 19-year-old Navy corpsman on June 6, 1944, often…

MTSU Military Science Commissions New Leaders as 2nd Lieutenants

MTSU Military Science Commissions New Leaders as 2nd Lieutenants

Six Middle Tennessee State University ROTC cadets in the Military Science program were commissioned as second lieutenants in a special ceremony held in the Tom H. Jackson Building’s Cantrell Hall in early May. With department chair and U.S. Army Lt. Col. Arlin Wilsher presiding and administering the Army Oath and alumnus and guest speaker Lt….