Murfreesboro Fire Rescue Department Firefighter Eric Compton was honored on August 13 at the Motlow State EMS Education Achievement Ceremony in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Compton was one of 10 graduates from the Paramedic Program to be recognized at the ceremony. However, Compton was the sole recipient of the Leadership Award. Motlow’s Leadership Award is given to…
For the twentieth consecutive year the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) has awarded the City of Murfreesboro with the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting (CAFR). The Certificate of Achievement is the highest form of recognition in governmental accounting and financial reporting. “I want to commend Finance Director Melissa Wright and the entire…
Chief Larry Farley is excited to announce that FEMA has awarded Rutherford County Fire Rescue a $1.7 million dollar ‘SAFER’ Grant, that provides salaries for 15 additional full-time fire fighters. The grant will be sent for County Commission approval in mid-October, and hopes are that the new fire fighters will be on board by November….
Emma Boylan, a senior at Oakland High School, will travel to Belgium next week to compete in the International Mounted Games Association World Championships. The IMGA World Championship is an equestrian skill riding event that attracts riders from 18 countries. Emma competes with a team of the five best mounted game riders in the United…
The Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame honored seven outstanding Tennessee journalists, including one posthumously, during induction ceremonies Tuesday, Aug. 7, during the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters annual conference at Murfreesboro’s Embassy Suites Hotel. This marked the sixth class to be inducted into the Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame, located at Middle Tennessee State University. Pictured,…
Reflecting on the Journey Award she had just received minutes earlier during the 11th Graduating Veterans Stole Ceremony Wednesday (Aug. 1), MTSU student veteran Jackie Evans paused briefly. “It makes me realize I was making a difference in the (Charlie and Hazel Daniels) Veterans Center,” the Florence, South Carolina, native said. “I worked there two…
Fire Rescue Chief Mark Foulks accepted an award during the opening ceremonies of the Tennessee Fire Chiefs Association’s (TFCA) Annual Conference Monday at Embassy Suites in Murfreesboro for the preservation of the department’s 1892 Ahrens steam fire engine. Bill Dundas, President of the Society for the Preservation & Appreciation of Antique Motor Fire Apparatus in…
MTSU’s Lisa Schrader, director of Health Promotion, has been presented a statewide award by the Coalition for Healthy and Safe Campus Communities. The Susanna L. Baxter Drug, Alcohol, and Violence Prevention in Higher Education Award is given every two years to a person in the state of Tennessee who, like Baxter, “has volunteered his or…
Pel Doski and Leia Green of Nashville, Tennessee, are the latest MTSU students to earn Fulbright Fellowships to teach or conduct research abroad later this year. Doski, a biology major, will be teaching English in South Korea, and Green, a foreign language major, will be teaching in Argentina. They join 14 former MTSU students who…
First Community Mortgage (FCM) recently announced the 2018 recipients of the Andrew C. Rambo Scholarship were Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) Students, Amanda Sampedro and Lily Shepler. The Andrew C. Rambo Memorial Scholarship – funded by FCM employees – is awarded to an MTSU MBA student in the accelerated cohort program of the Flex MBA….