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The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office has picked up patrol duty for the Lebanon Police Department. That way, any officer could attend the funeral of Lebanon officer Brendan Myers. The Sheriff’s Office said they would cover patrols for as long as needed. Myers was killed in an off-duty motorcycle wreck on Aviation Way last Tuesday. The Tennessee Highway Patrol has handled the investigation.

Two women face multiple charges after Ashland City officers watched a video of them swallowing what police claim to be drugs in the back of a squad car. Officers pulled up on a parked car in front of a closed business around 3 a.m. on Tuesday, August 27. Within minutes, officers suspected drug usage. Authorities asked for permission to search the car and found both pills and a powdery substance. The police report noted that in the back of the squad car, one woman asked the other where their meth was — calling it by the street name “ice.” The video then showed one of the women pulling something out of her shirt; police said that something was drugs. The other woman bent down and grabbed the item with her teeth before swallowing it.

Mt Juliet Road has lots of traffic, especially when schools are leaving. However, city leaders have created a new plan to get traffic moving better, and it starts by bringing the traffic lights into the 21st century. The project is going to connect all the traffic signals with fiber optic cable, which will then be connected into city hall with our main server. This allows the city to manually operate the servers from a desktop computer throughout the day. Thirteen traffic lights from Central Pike to Division Street will get this technology upgrade.

Just over a year after the bleachers partially collapsed at Beech High School in Hendersonville, Sumner County Schools have ceremoniously broke ground on the largest athletic facility project in the county’s history. After much debate and back-and-forth with the Sumner County Commission, the school district was given an additional $5.4 million in their 2024-25 budget for stadium upgrades at Portland, Beech, and Hendersonville High Schools. Stadium construction is expected to be complete by the start of the 2025 high school football season. None of the football teams will be forced to play elsewhere for the current season.