One of Hendersonville’s aldermen has worked to slow down speeding drivers in the city. A new speed limit ordinance called “Safe Neighborhoods” would only impact residential neighborhoods. There is a default speed limit where no signs are posted: 30 miles per hour. Hendersonville’s mayor and board of alderman approved the first reading of an ordinance to drop the default speed limit to 25 miles per hour. Those same leaders are […]
Cheatham County homeowners are outraged after the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) came out to survey their property for a transmission line project accompanying a new methane gas plant. Homeowners point out that the project has not been approved yet. The TVA was off Sweethome Road in Ashland City surveying land for a transmission line project linked to a new methane gas plant. Hendersonville has a deer problem. There are simply […]
Police in Clarksville are investigating a Monday night single-vehicle rollover crash that happened just before 10 p.m. on Trenton Road near Cyprus Court. The driver of the vehicle that flipped was flown to Nashville by Life Flight Helicopter, their condition was unknown. Fatal crash investigators with the Clarksville Police Department are on the case. Cheatham County authorities say inattentive drivers have smashed two Cheatham County squad cars in just 24 […]
A man is dead following a Friday afternoon train crash on Lebanon Road. The Lebanon Police Department posted on Social Media Friday afternoon, that the right westbound lane of Highway 70 would be shut down as closure that lasted some three hours. WeGo says there were no injuries reported on the train from Friday afternoon’s incident. The spokesperson added that train service would be delayed and buses would be used […]
While busting a house party, Cheatham County authorities found multiple Nashville felons, two of whom were out on bond for murder or attempted murder charges. On Monday, Sept. 30, Metro Police called the Cheatham County Sheriff’s Office with a possible location for a violent offender Metro was seeking. Authorities went to the house, where as many as nine people were inside for what turned out to be a birthday party. […]
A police perimeter was set up around a Clarksville hotel Wednesday afternoon amid an hours-long barricade. The Clarksville Police Department said it received a 911 call just after 1:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 2 about an unwanted guest in one of the rooms at Country Inn & Suites in the 3000 block of Wilma Rudolph Boulevard. When officers approached the room, knocked on the door, and announced their presence, the […]
A Mt. Juliet High School and Golden Bear football player is fighting for his life after he hydroplaned off the road during severe weather over the weekend. Jaxon Rocchiettie was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury. On Saturday afternoon, Jaxon was driving home from work on Old Lebanon Dirt Road when he hit some water and hydroplaned. “He slid off the road completely which made the hydroplane worse, and he […]
Two Portland High School teachers are loading up on supplies to deliver to East Tennessee families impacted by Hurricane Helene. At PHS, Trey Pitt and Matthew Ellithorpe teach “Career and Technical Education” (CTE). The two men hope to gather a list of supplies to drop off to families impacted by the storm, to fill up Mr. Pitt’s cattle trailer. Pitt says the idea suddenly came to him this past weekend, […]
Middle Tennessee was spared from the worst of Hurricane Helene, but some counties still saw high rain totals and wind gusts. In Tennessee, water flooded roads like Old Glenrose Avenue, where an overflow from Mill Creek gushed through a storm drain onto the street. Traffic on Briley Parkway was delayed on Friday after water flooded several freeway lanes near McGavock Pike. As of Saturday morning, rain gauges from across the […]
