Siegel High School Be in the Zone

Siegel High School wins $2,500 for safe-driving campaign

Siegel High School partnered with Monroe Carell, Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in a yearlong anti-texting while driving campaign called “Be in the Zone-Turn Off Your Phone.” The campaign is sponsored by The Allstate Foundation and Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services. The yearlong commitment included a youth service empowerment project with the City…

Recent Job Fair

Job Fair Tuesday: Seven Employers, 200+ Positions

The Goodwill Career Solutions center at 2955 S. Church St. in Murfreesboro will host a job fair from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 15, for seven employers seeking to fill more than 200 positions in Rutherford, Bedford and Davidson counties. Employers include YMCA, Cameron Staffing, Coast Personnel Services, Metro Industrial Service, Senior Helping, NAOS…

United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties

United Way Named Salvation Army’s Beyond the Bells 2018 Community Spotlight Partner

United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties was recognized as the Community Spotlight Partner at the third annual Beyond the Bells luncheon hosted by The Salvation Army. Thanks to funding assistance from the United Way, The Salvation Army is able to offer Life Recovery Program and Third Shift Shelter Program. “Partnering with organizations such as…

Central Magnet school Principal Dr. John Ash

Central Magnet School ranked best in Tennessee for second consecutive year

Central Magnet School has once again been ranked the best high school in Tennessee and 10th best magnet school in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. The publication releases rankings each spring identifying the best schools in each state and throughout the nation. Central has been named among the best in Tennessee…

Ruth Willard Alford

Ruth Alford obituary

Ruth Willard Alford, age 93 of Murfreesboro died Wednesday May 9, 2018. She was a native of Rutherford County and was preceded in death by her husband, William Thurston Alford, parents, Tom and Sallie Mingle Willard, and a daughter-in-law, Phyllis Anne Ezell Alford. Mrs. Alford was a member of Kingwood Heights Church of Christ and…

Overall Creek STEM School

Overall Creek Earns Tennessee Designated STEM School Status

Overall Creek Elementary, a Murfreesboro City School, was named a Tennessee Designated STEM School by the State of Tennessee during the STEM Innovation Summit in Nashville on May 8. The Tennessee STEM School Designation denotes that a school meets the highest standards of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) instruction and is a model for…

MTSU team with awards

First-year MTSU coach guides equestrian team to third-place finish at nationals

Middle Tennessee State University’s equestrian team has sent individual riders to the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association National Championship for many years. However, it had been five years since the well-respected program had qualified as a team. Now, a third-place finish at nationals is how coach Ariel Herrin capped off her first year as coach following…

Teacher Fair

MTSU’s future educators seek job opportunities during on-campus recruitment fair

For MTSU senior Jaylan Ashley, her inspiration for becoming a special education teacher came from volunteering with her aunt. “My aunt is a speech pathologist, and I volunteered with her in high school with kids who had special needs,” said Ashley, a native of Nashville, Tennessee. “I met a little boy with Down syndrome who…