While some students decide where they’ll be headed for summer vacation, others are figuring out where their next meal will be coming from. Thanks to MTSU’s Fraternity and Sorority Life, MTSU’s Student Food Pantry will soon be stocked with more than 3,000 items of canned food and other nonperishable goods for the summer. Current students…
Before it’s used in the park system this year, over 60 tons of sand will be used to create a real “beach” in the park. Music, dancing, games and activities. Join the festivities! Date: May 11, 2018 Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Location: Barfield Crescent Park Address: 697 Veterans Parkway Murfreesboro, TN 37128 Cost: Free for…
The Stones River Greenway will be closed from the Cason Trailhead to just past the Highway 99 overpass starting Monday, May 7, 2018, for the Highway 99 (New Salem Highway) widening project. The Cason Trailhead will be open for parking, and greenway users may still turn left from the trailhead to use the trail. The…
Oakland High School International Baccalaureate (IB) alum Karmyn Casey has been accepted into the Leadership Knoxville Scholars program through The University of Tennessee and Leadership Knoxville. The Leadership Knoxville Scholars program is an innovative approach to leadership education through community partnerships. The program targets current rising junior leaders in a cohort style model in collaboration…
This past Saturday was Siegel Day at Murfreesboro’s Miracle Field. Special thanks to principal Larry Creasy, cheerleading coach Lorie Gober, baseball coach Tyler Reeder, softball coach Shawn Middleton, and assistant band director Alex Sears for supporting those involved. The band opened the day with the National Anthem. Softball and baseball team members had the privilege…
On Tuesday, May 1st at 11:46 p.m., an officer was conducting a close watch of the 300 block of Mason Road due to recent reports of heavy equipment batteries being stolen. The officer noticed a dark color Chevy Tahoe SUV leaving the construction site at a high rate of speed that matched the description of…
Todd E. McCullough, age 85 of Murfreesboro died Saturday April 28, 2018. He was born in Nashville and was preceded in death by his parents, Sandford Woodrow McCullough and Addie Mae Jacobs McCullough, and brother, Earl McCullough and grandson, Randy McCullough, Jr. Mr. McCullough attended Lighthouse Baptist Church and had served in the United States…
Bridge over Broad Street TDOT Project (Est Substantial Completion March 2018) Expected Lane Closures: Monday through Friday, Bridge is opened and nearing completion. Traffic has been shifted onto the bridge and traffic signal and incidental work continues. There will be minor lane closures on NW Broad Street, Memorial Blvd and Old Fort Pkwy the on-off…
Holding the actual clipping in The Tennessean from 2017, where the newspaper reported MTSU’s Department of Engineering Technology needed a new building for its growing mechatronics engineering program, Jean Gould admitted publicly she “didn’t even know anything about mechatronics.” “Mechatronics was a new term for me,” she said. “But when I learned that it was…
Almost $40,000 worth of crystal methamphetamine and about $100 worth of heroin were seized from a Murfreesboro man after a one-month investigation, a Sheriff’s Special Enforcement Bureau supervisor said last week. Suspect Dustin James Thompson, 32, of Old Lascassas Road was charged with manufacturing, delivering, selling or possessing Schedule I drugs for resale, four counts…