ROBERTSON CO. NEWS

The 2021 Kilgore Station Bluegrass Festival is scheduled for Aug. 27-28 in Cross Plains.  Featured acts include the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, King’s Highway, Ridgetop Ramblers, Luke Munday Band, and more. Bands will begin performing Saturday morning.  The festival is a not-for-profit arts and economic development project of the Cross Plains Community Chamber.

The Robertson County Fair will be held from Tuesday, Sept. 7 to Saturday, Sept. 11 at the fairgrounds on US-41 in Springfield. Gates will open every evening at 5:00 and close at 10 p.m. However, the rides will be open as long as there are people there to ride them.

A perennial favorite, the Nashville Flea Market is coming back.  After more than a year without the market due to coronavirus concerns, it will return to the Nashville fairgrounds on May 22nd and 23rd.  It will be open from 8 in the morning to 6 in the evening on Saturday and 8 to 4 o’clock in the afternoon on Sunday.  The flea market, on the fourth weekend of every month except for December, is being scaled back to two days a week from three and will be an outdoors event only.  

Springfield launched a city-wide cleanup last Saturday in conjunction with its new Adopt-a-Street program, to keep streets litter-free on a regular basis. When a volunteer participates in Adopt-a-Street, volunteers sign the public works forms, agree to adopt a one-mile segment of a major street for free and agree to remove litter a minimum of four times a year for at least one year. So far, around 100 volunteers have signed up.

A Greenbrier woman was taken into custody outside her home Thursday following an identity theft investigation led by Greenbrier Police.  20-year-old Dajevonne Carriere of Greenbrier is facing multiple counts of Identity Theft and Forgery following a three-week police investigation. Carriere has been cooperating with Police. The investigation is ongoing.