While 2020 has been a challenge across the globe, Middle Tennessee took an extra hit in March when powerful tornadoes ripped through the area displacing hundreds of residents and devastating homes and businesses. Yet, eight months later, a positive outcome emerges as Mt. Juliet’s Green Hill High School AV Production Teacher DeAna Duncan created a…
A big GIANT thank you to Bill Taylor’s Bushido School of Karate who donated $1500 to the YMCA ABC (after breast cancer) Program. This donation was made in memory of Pam Arnold. Thank you to all of the students, parents and friends who supported this amazing fundraiser!
Anyone need some milk? The UT/TSU Extension office located at 315 John Rice Blvd in Murfreesboro (beside PAWS) partnered with the Tennessee Dairy Alliance to give out FREE gallons of MILK to anyone! The event is this Friday, July 31st, at the UT/TSU Extension office from 10:00am to 1:00pm.
Seven local State Farm agents – Dana Womack, Andy Womack, David Wilson, Jeannie Almon, Bud Morris, Trevor Haggard and Monte King – demonstrated what it means to be good neighbors by donating $3,150 to the United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties’ “Stuff the Bus” school supplies drive. Stuff the Bus is the United Way’s…
The family of former fire chief Chris Clark has donated an antique piano to the La Vergne Public Library. The piano is from the early 1920’s and has been in Emily Clark’s family for more than 50 years, first being owned by her grandparents Jack and Evelyn Hiett. “This was the fun piano growing up,”…
Having just completed its merger with the Murfreesboro Electric Department, Middle Tennessee Electric (MTE) announced today $100,000 in donations to three Murfreesboro-based charitable organizations. Rutherford County Area Habitat for Humanity will receive $50,000 while Wee Care Day Care and Community Helpers will receive $25,000 each. “We think it’s fitting and appropriate to mark our first…
Eighty-one people will receive the gift of life because Sheriff’s Office employees and families, an MTSU Police detective and community residents donated blood June 10 during a Red Cross Bloodmobile. More Sheriff’s Office employees and residents will save lives by donating blood from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, June 24 in the training classroom…
Want to save three lives? Give blood. Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office is sponsoring an American Red Cross bloodmobile for the annual Battle of the Badges drive with other law enforcement agencies, firefighters and paramedics this month. Officers, firefighters and paramedics who respond to crash scenes or medical emergencies know the need for blood every day….
As Goodwill donations attendant Shelley Pope started the engine, honked the horn and tested the radio of her “new” car, her daughter looked on, teary-eyed. “It’s bittersweet,” Stephanie Ramsey explained. “I mean — it’s only bitter because Bobby can’t be here to see it. But I can’t think of anybody who deserves this car more…
Coronavirus distancing restrictions couldn’t keep fraternities and sororities at MTSU from using online tools to continue their annual support of a popular student resource. As part of the annual Greek Week Celebration, MTSU Fraternity and Sorority Life sponsored an almost weeklong fundraising challenge that brought in $3,163 through online donations for the MTSU Student Food…