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Owner of burned Daisy Dukes trailer offers reward
A 28-foot trailer behind Daisy Dukes Dance Hall in Lafayette burned to the ground on Monday night. Dance hall proprietor Randy Green, who owned the trailer, estimates the damage at $15,000. He believes the fire was started deliberately, and is offering a $500 reward to anyone with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator. Fire Chief Keith Scruggs said the cause of the fire is unknown: “It’s kind of a suspicious ...
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L-R – Zach Polston (MCHS Interact Member), Mayor Richard Driver, Pete Williston, Don Traylor, Amy Phelps, Cindy Gammons, Barry Doss, Charlie Darnell, and Trey Reid (MCHS Interact).
New sign welcomes visitors to Lafayette
A new welcome sign has just been installed on Hwy 52, outside the Lafayette City limits. The sign reads “Welcome to: Lafayette Tennessee. Organized 1843.” The Lafayette Rotary Club acquired a matching simplified grant with Rotary District 6780 for the project, spearheaded by Rotary member Ricky White. The sign is near the intersection of Hwy 52 and Key Road. White said that the sign was placed in that location because it is one of the mai...
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Theodore Allen Kemp
A warning to Macon hunters: obey the law
A Pleasant Shade resident is finding out just how serious the penalties are for not obeying hunting laws in Macon County. Theodore Allen Kemp, 34, was arrested on April 3rd by the Macon County Sheriff Department and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency—for hunting deer in December. TWRA Game Warden James Dooley did not catch Kemp in the act, but he was able to undertake an investigation through other means, leading to the arrest. “I ga...
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Macon Helps volunteer staff, in the newly open space. Back, L-R: Pam Brummitt, Lucas Wisdom. Front, L-R: Valerie Reid, Jean Miles, Sandy Stafford.
Macon Helps stretches its legs
Macon Helps in Lafayette has continued to grow since its inception in 1992. This week, the Macon Helps building in Lafayette officially expanded into the space next door, which was purchased some months ago and has been undergoing renovation. Macon Helps offers help in the form of food, supplies, and money, to seniors, the disabled, and low-income families with children in our area. Funded by the thrift store that bears its name, Macon Help...
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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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