Youngsters Discover Life on a Farm at Annual MTSU Ag Education Spring Fling

Youngsters Discover Life on a Farm at Annual MTSU Ag Education Spring Fling

Melinda Crook marveled at the joy and fun the schoolchildren from Mitchell-Neilson Elementary and other schools were having recently in the Tennessee Livestock Center on the Middle Tennessee State University campus. At the MTSU School of Agriculture Ag Education Spring Fling, Crook, assistant principal at Mitchell-Neilson, knows her school’s youngsters live in downtown Murfreesboro and…

Suspect Charged With Burning $10,000 in Personal Property in Domestic Case

Suspect Charged With Burning $10,000 in Personal Property in Domestic Case

A suspect who apparently burned $10,000 worth of personal property and filed a false report was charged Friday by the Rutherford County Fire Marshal’s Office investigators. Marcus Anthony Ellis, 46, of McNair Ave. in Smyrna was charged with felony setting fire to personal property and felony filing a false report to an officer, said Fire…

Denielle Fuller and Samantha Wagner

Principals Announced for Rock Springs Elementary, Simon Springs Community School

Director of Schools has named Denielle Fuller the new principal of Rock Springs Elementary School, and he has named Samantha Wagner the first principal of the new Simon Springs Community School, both in LaVergne. Fuller succeeds longtime principal Stephen Lewis, who plans to retire at the end of the current school year. “Ms. Fuller is…

Road Construction

Murfreesboro Road Construction Projects for April 21 – 27

Beasie Rd Extension (River Rock Blvd just north of Racquet Club Dr) Expected Lane Closures: Monday Through Friday: Riverrock Blvd will be reduced to one-lane flagging operation intermittently at Beasie Rd for roadway widening work. Road and bridge construction work over Stones River Greenway continues. The greenway trail will be closed around the existing Beasie…

Middle Tennessee Electric

MTE Traffic Advisory for I-24 Sunday, April 21

Middle Tennessee Electric (MTE) advises caution for Rutherford County motorists traveling eastbound and westbound on I-24 between Old Hickory Boulevard and Almaville Road this Sunday, April 21. Rolling roadblocks will begin at 6 a.m. that morning as MTE and its contractors work on electrical lines across the interstate. The work is estimated to be completed…