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The Robertson County Back 2 School Bash will be held at The Center in Springfield on Saturday from 2-6 pm. The bash will resemble a block party, with a number of vendors and games outside in The Center parking lot and along N. Main Street. Towards the end of the event, all visitors will go inside The Center for kids to receive backpacks and school supplies for the upcoming school year.
Several new additions and improvements at several local schools are set to take place after receiving final approval from the Robertson County Commission. Among the items brought forth to the commission included a resolution to amend the school budget fund to make room for pay for architects and purchase property for future site development.
The Cheatham County Homeless Coalition wants to give the public a better understanding of what it means to be without a home. The awareness campaign will kick off Saturday, Aug. 26 at the Cheatham County Courthouse in Ashland City as teams gather to build cardboard homes as part of the Cardboard City challenge. The event is from 8:30-11:30 a.m. Teams need to register in advance for the event and can do so through the Cheatham County Homeless Coalition website at cheathamhomelesscoalition.com. The registration deadline is Aug. 1. There is no cost for teams to participate. Registered participants will receive a free T-shirt.
The City of Millersville is losing its police chief and its assistant police chief. Melvin Brown and Glenn Alfred reportedly submitted their resignations earlier this week. Brown said he had ” grown weary of periodic information by the P.O.S.T. Commission and other anonymous allegations regarding staff members being published by local media in out of context sound bites that would lead one to believe something is amiss despite supporting statements from a P.O.S.T. Investigator and local District Attorney General as well as the City Attorney.” Brown and Alfred’s last day with the Millersville Police Department is set for Friday, Aug. 4.
Retired Maj. David Grusch testified before a Congressional hearing on UFOs yesterday. He claims the U.S. is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects and has been aware of “non-human” activity since the 1930s. The Pentagon has denied his claims.
