A federal jury in Nashville, Tennessee yesterday, returned guilty verdicts against three individuals on trial for their role in a deadly fentanyl distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee. After an 8-day trial, the jury returned the guilty verdicts against Joedon Bradley, 32, of Nashville, Tennessee, Johnny Williams, 32,…
When Henry T. Linebaugh made his $5,000 donation toward the creation of a public library in his hometown, he never imagined that within 70 years, that humble beginning would grow to be a five-branch library system serving most of Rutherford County. Linebaugh Public Library formally opened on April 1, 1948, with 6,000 volumes in the…
Riverdale High School will be hosting “Brave the Shave” for the fifth consecutive year this Friday. The school has once again teamed up with the St. Baldricks Foundation to Conquer Childhood Cancer. This year’s fundraiser will be held Friday, March 16, from 1:15-2:47 p.m. inside the Johnny Parsley Gymnasium. The goal is to raise $40,000….
Bethany Hoppe, MTSU instructor of Communication Studies, will speak on Women in Leadership: Achieving the Learning Curve. Author, speaker and advocate, Hoppe is a 2014 TedX Nashville speaker and the President-elect of the MTSU Commission on the Status of Women. Hoppe will address the monthly meeting attendees on how to help women address the pay…
Reading isn’t the only way to learn. Sometimes students are better off when they can see it, touch it, feel it or smell whatever it is, and some of the best lessons are when they literally get their hands dirty. One recent lesson for fifth-graders at Homer Pittard Campus School involved worms. No, they did…
The Rutherford County Board of Education will begin deliberations Monday, March 5, to select finalists for the Director of Schools position. Current Director Don Odom has submitted his intent to retire effective June 30, 2018. Odom has worked as an educator in Rutherford County for 50 years and has served as director since 2012. Fifteen…
Casey Couch is the third senior from Rutherford County Schools to commit to one of the prestigious military academies. Couch, 18, who attends Central Magnet School, was offered and accepted an athletic scholarship to the United States Air Force Academy. “Recruited athletes at the academies, like myself,” said Couch, who received a gymnastics scholarship, “are…
Sheriff’s K-9 Balu dedicated his career to protecting partner, Deputy Josh Gregory, sniffing out drugs and catching criminals. German Shepherd Balu and Gregory protected each other when two Georgia murder suspects fired several rounds into Gregory’s sheriff’s cruiser during a pursuit last July on Interstate 24. The K-9 is trained to sprint toward gunfire. He…
