With 33 years in education, Bingham explains his ‘why,’ and what keeps him moving. Q: How did you begin your career in education? A: I have been with Rutherford County School System, at Riverdale, for 33 years. So, I started out in special education and then about three years ago I came into the counseling…
Riverdale Principal Tamera Blair has a A group of people holding a sign “You can’t beat the person who never gives up,” reads the famous quote from Babe Ruth. It perfectly embodies the unwavering attitude of Blair, a 1987 graduate of Riverdale who is entering her third year as principal. The school opened in 1972…
PREVIOUSLY RELEASED: 17-year-old identified as shooter arrested in graduation shooting The 17-year-old shooter in the Riverdale High School after-graduation shooting at MTSU will remain in juvenile detention. A probable cause/detention hearing was held for the teen in Rutherford County Juvenile Court on Friday, May 20. The teen will remain at the facility. The 17-year-old will…
Riverdale High School in Murfreesboro, TN, will host a St. Baldrick’s Foundation signature head-shaving event to raise funds for lifesaving childhood cancer research on Friday, April 8, 2022. With a goal of raising $50,000 nearly 50 participants have registered to shave their head or chop their locks to support the Foundation’s mission to fund the…
School resource officers quickly recovered a loaded handgun from a 16-year-old former Riverdale High School student during a basketball game Tuesday at the school, said Sheriff’s SRO Capt. Brad Harrison. Administrators and officers noticed the former student, who was prohibited from Riverdale’s campus, had snuck into the ballgame, the captain said. SRO Dallen Miller removed…
Former president Franklin D. Roosevelt said it was a day that would live in infamy. The day was December 7, and the year was 1941 and now, 80 years later, the choir from Riverdale High School will help to commemorate the anniversary by participating in the Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade. The route travels down world…
The summer leading into her freshman year of high school, Katelyn Cahill lost her grandmother. Cahill was 14. Despite all the time she had spent with her maternal grandmother, she didn’t know half the people at the funeral home who came to pay their respects. But there was a common theme when it came to…
There was a time when you did not have to listen closely to hear the traffic behind Riverdale High School whisking by on I-24. When the school opened in Fall 1972, not much was found on the westside of the interstate. In fact, seven years later, after the late Edward Elam Carlton hired Hulon Watson…
Kristin Thomason, LPN at NHC Healthcare Murfreesboro, was told by one of her patients that his birthday wish was to see his nephew play baseball. The patient’s nephew plays baseball for Riverdale High School. As a nurse who goes above and beyond, Kristin was able to arrange for her patient, Gary Green, to go to…
Riverdale High School students in the Future Farmers of America (FFA) program planted a large garden at Community Care of Rutherford County (CCRC) Friday, May 7. “Our FFA chapter is excited to form this partnership with the Community Care of Rutherford County,” Riverdale teacher and FFA sponsor Chris Martin said from the site of the…