Robertson Co. News

This Saturday is opening day for the Robertson County Farmers Market.  It will be open on Saturdays from 8am until Noon throughout the Spring and Summer at the Fairgrounds. The season finale will be August 28^th.

The Tennesse Highway Patrol will be conducting a “Sobriety Checkpoint” the week of May 7^th from 11:00 PM – 1:00 AM on US Highway 41 at the Greenbrier City Limits and Lights Chapel Road area in Robertson County. There will also be a “Safety Belt Checkpoint” the week of June 11^th from 9:00 – 11:00 AM on US Highway 31W at the intersection with New Hall Road in Robertson and Sumner Counties.

As expected, Tennessee’s Republican Senators aren’t impressed with President Biden’s proposed American Families Plan.  Senior Senator Marsha Blackburn called the nearly two-trillion-dollar plan the largest government takeover in modern history.  Senator Bill Hagerty called the proposal “the largest tax hike on Americans in a generation.”  Biden detailed the plan last night in a speech to Congress.

The Greenbrier High School class of 2021 will be honored Tuesday, May 18th from 6:30-8 pm with a “Senior Parade” hosted by Veterans Motorplex at the Rim.  Seniors will be standing in the infield of the track in their caps and gowns while, parents, friends, and family can drive one lap around the track to honor them.

Governor Bill Lee is expected to sign a bill that would give Tennessee’s schools bleeding control kits.  If it becomes law, the legislation would provide nearly two-thousand of the potentially life-saving kits to schools across the state.  The kits would include a tourniquet and compression bandages to control bleeding.  School staff members would be trained on how to use the kits in emergency situations.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation is using Work Zone Awareness Week to ask drivers to slow down and move over.  Nearly two-dozen people were killed in work-zone crashes last year.  TDOT has lost 112 employees while on duty, but 70 percent of those killed in work-zone crashes aren’t workers.