Five cheerleading squads representing four Rutherford County schools

Five cheerleading squads from four Rutherford County schools were recognized after winning national championships

Winners of The Masters don green jackets. Inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are fitted with gold jackets. Wearing their coveted white championship jackets, cheerleading teams from Blackman and Siegel high schools along with Rockvale Middle School and two teams from Stewarts Creek High School recently filled the entire Board Room at the…

Rutherford County Schools

Rutherford County Schools receives $1 million Innovative High School Grant

Rutherford County Schools has been named a recipient of a new state-funded Innovative High School Grant that will result in additional opportunities for students. Valued at more than $1 million, the grant will reimagine the use of time, space, partnerships and modes of learning for student success. The grant calls for three facilitator positions including…

MTSU Horse Science recognition

MTSU’s Hoffman named ‘Outstanding Educator’; Horse Science students, alumni shine at symposium

Past and present Middle Tennessee State University Horse Science students continue to excel in their academic research. The recent 2021 Equine Science Society Symposium, held virtually because of COVID-19 precautions, featured research presentations by MTSU master’s students Luke Brock, Kaylee Layton, Courtney Smith and Kailey Vande Kamp. Layton earned two second-place awards and Horse Science…

First Community Mortgage’s Claudia Rios among Top 250 Latino Mortgage Originators nationwide

First Community Mortgage’s Claudia Rios among Top 250 Latino Mortgage Originators nationwide

Claudia Rios, a Senior Loan Officer with Murfreesboro-based First Community Mortgage, has been named to the seventh annual Top 250 Latino Mortgage Originators Report recognizing the top producing Latino mortgage pros across the U.S. The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP®), in association with Radian, ranks individual originators based on number and dollar…

First Community Mortgage

First Community Mortgage receives ‘best workplaces’ recognitions

First Community Mortgage been named one of the Best Places to Work 2021 by the Nashville Business Journal and one of the Top Work Places 2021 by the Tennessean. “Our employees are amazing and make us the organization we are today,” says Keith Canter, CEO of First Community Mortgage and one of the company’s founders….

TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center received Gold Seal of Approval

TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center received Gold Seal of Approval

TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center proudly celebrated and recognized all our colleagues who are dedicated to our Spine Surgery Institute and our spinal patients for earning the national accreditation and certification from the Joint Commission for Spine Surgery. The Gold Seal of Approval is given only to those institutions that provide superior, quality care and service…

Maxine Smith Fellows

‘Opportunities’ await MTSU pair named Maxine Smith Fellows

Middle Tennessee State University’s Brelinda Johnson and Daniel Green are among the 21 faculty and staff members from Tennessee colleges and universities selected to participate in the 2021-22 class of the Maxine Smith Fellows program. Johnson is Scholars Academy manager for the Office of Student Success while Green is director of Intercultural and Diversity Affairs…

Lascassas teacher nominated for prestigious Athena Award

Lascassas teacher nominated for prestigious Athena Award

Lascassas teacher April Holland has come a long way. She always preferred working in the background and supporting others with their projects. But her experience with the Junior League of Murfreesboro has helped develop leadership skills and feel more comfortable taking the reins, she said. “It’s done so much (for me) professionally and personally,” Holland…

Sheriff's employees children earn scholarships

7 children of Sheriff’s employees earn scholarships from Tennessee Sheriffs’ Association

Seven children of Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office employees each earned $500 scholarships from the Tennessee Sheriffs’ Association. Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh presented the checks to award winners Ryan Haynes, son of Patrol Capt. Chris Haynes, Eli Ward, son of Detective Dennis Ward, Jessie Kauffman, daughter of Training Lt. Chris Kauffman, Brianna King, daughter of Capt. Joey…

Smyrna Town Hall

Town of Smyrna receives Excellence in Finance Reporting award

The Town of Smyrna has been awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) for its comprehensive annual financial report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020. The Certificate of Achievement is the highest form of recognition in the…