Mothers Against Drunk Driving Tennessee thanked law enforcement officers statewide recently who saved lives by arresting impaired drivers. Rutherford County Sheriff’s Deputy William Travis received the Middle Tennessee Top DUI Enforcers award for sheriff’s offices in Middle Tennessee. Travis earned recognition in the gold category for 100 DUI arrests last year. MADD honored Deputy Austin…
Middle Tennessee State University is represented among the finalists in three categories for the 11th annual Nashville Technology Council Awards. Luis Lange, an Information Systems and Analytics graduate student, is up for Student of the Year; Charlie Apigian, co-director of MTSU’s Data Science Institute, is a finalist for Data Scientist of the Year; and the…
More than two dozen outstanding high school chemistry students from across the region participated in the recent MTSU Department of Chemistry Scholarship Tournament. Held in the Science Building, the competition recognized nearly 30 outstanding chemistry students from Rutherford and surrounding counties while giving them an up-close look to consider MTSU as their college choice. Participants…
Two Murfreesboro Police Department (MPD) officers were among dozens of law enforcement officers statewide to be honored by the Tennessee Highway Safety Office (THSO) for their efforts in keeping Middle Tennessee roadways safer. MPD Officer Chris Waters received the THSO Traffic ‘Officer of the Year Award’ and Officer Terry Spence received the ‘Beyond the Traffic…
Parade of Lights Winners for the 9th annual Parade of Lights competition were announce at the annual tree lighting ceremony on Saturday, December 7th following the parade. This year’s theme was the 12 Days of Christmas. 1st Place: Debbie’s School of Dance 2nd Place: Miracle Baptist Church 3rd Place: Rutherford County Democratic Party Light Up…
Rutherford County Assessor of Property, Rob Mitchell, was presented the 2019 Three Star Certification before the Tennessee Association of Assessing Officers at the fall regional seminars last week. The certificate was presented on behalf of the Tennessee Association of Assessing Officers by the executive director, Will Denami. “The Three Star Certification is a professional standard…
Lauralee Richardson earned her Social Marketing Certification from Hootsuite. This is an industry-recognized certification that demonstrates expertise with the essential elements of social marketing to clients and employers. A Walmart grant from the Memorial location has funded the social marketing certification test for 20 students at Siegel High School. Lauralee is the first marketing student…
This past weekend, Siegel Model UN was the only Rutherford County School competing at the Southeastern High School Model United Nations Conference (SHSMUN) against 650 students representing over 70 country delegations. Siegel’s Belgium delegation was awarded 3rd Best Delegation at the conference. Included in this group are Juliana Cote, Grace Puzzo, Jacob Lockyear, Emily Bruce, George Nielsen, Eric…
A team of Murfreesboro Police officers received STARS Awards Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, for “representing the City in a positive light, exhibiting the core values and ‘creating a better quality of life.’” Officer Nathan Corwin, Officer Cormac Chandler and Officer Cameron Stamps conducted a drug bust on Aug. 25, 2019, that uncovered heroin, Oxycodone and…
Middle Tennessee State University continues to be recognized for its advocacy of increased voter registration and participation, this week receiving a “Silver Seal” award at the 2019 ALL IN Challenge Awards Ceremony as well as recently being named a Voter Friendly Campus nationally. Held Tuesday, Nov. 12, at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., the ALL…