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Father, son lose all in house fire
A man and his 10-year-old son lost everything in a house fire on Thursday afternoon in the northwest corner of Macon County. Rick and Hunter Bolen, residents at the trailer on 3904 West Fork Creek Road, were not at home when the fire occurred. A neighbor, Sherrie Johnson, said she saw smoke and “thought [another neighbor] was just burning trash… and then I saw smoke come through the roof there, and the closer I got, I could see it was on fi...
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Degges says Hwy 10 project is right on schedule
County Mayor Shelvy Linville placed a resolution before the County Commissioners on Monday, asking TDOT to hurry along the Hwy 10 renovation project. Linville was responding to a three year project plan put out by Governor Haslam and TDOT, which did not include the construction phase of the Hwy 10 project. In the resolution, and in written correspondence with Commissioner Schroer, Linville cites “numerous injury accidents and many fatalitie...
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Hwy 25 back open after rockslide cleanup
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – On Tuesday, May 21, the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) reopened all lanes on SR 25 (Dixon Springs Highway) in Smith County. The roadway has been closed since a rockslide on May 9 th blocked both lanes near the Cumberland River Overlook. TDOT initiated an emergency contract last Monday, and cleanup began immediately. Paving operations were completed late this afternoon, allowing contract cre...
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Fire in the bed of a pickup Tuesday
This photo was taken on Highway 52 in Macon County close to the OK Market near the Macon/Sumner line at 1:00 pm on Tuesday. Evidently a cigarette ignited some cardboard with plumbing glue on it in the bed of pickup truck. When the driver noticed flames in his rearview mirror he pulled over and drug the contents of his truck bed to the road. The fire also ignited a bottle of professional grade drain cleaner and several large PVC pipe. Westmo...
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Memory Lane
Down Memory Lane
April 17, 1975 37 Years Ago *The Macon County Court voted overwhelmingly in favor of renovating the old jail, at an estimated cost of $75,000. This was in favor of a proposed plan to build an enti...
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Down Memory Lane
March 25, 1993 19 Years Ago *Citizens Bank of Lafayette signed an agreement with Third National Bank of Nashville to purchase the assets and liabilities of the Third National Bank branch located in...
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Down Memory Lane
April 8, 1954 58 years ago *The North Central Telephone Cooperative, a new organization, switched over their Green Grove and Hillsdale telephone exchanges to dial service. With the completion of t...
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Down Memory Lane
June 11, 1968 44 Years Ago *In the wake of Martin Luther King’s assassination, columnist Charlie Gregory complains about the “overboard” mourning the country was engaged in. “You don’t see the flag...
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Down Memory Lane
A look back at things past
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People
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Lafayette Elementary’s annual Field Day
Photos by Tilly Cryar
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Brown-Miller to exchange vows
Wayland Brown and Venus Mancera of Lebanon and Wayne and Teresa Miller of Lafayette are proud to announce the upcoming marriage of their children, Tanya and Alan. Tanya is the granddaughter of Robe...
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Birth: Daisy Daneal White
Phillip and Hollie White are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Daisy Daneal White. Daisy was born Feb. 13 at 8:49 p.m. at Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin. She weighed 7 pound...
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Rose at day 90 of his weight loss program.
Rose says education, mindset behind 250-pound weight loss
Eric Rose says he has been struggling with his weight his entire life. "I'd been trying to lose the weight since I was about 12, and I'd done it all really. I was almost 250-300 pounds in junior h...
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