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As part of the 2021-22 fiscal year county budget, the Robertson County Historical Society will get $5,000. That will go towards the Robertson County History Museum in the old U.S. Federal Post Office Building in downtown Springfield.  The museum’s archival materials include documents, records, journals and other historical materials that date all the way back to before Robertson County was founded.

The U.S. Department of Education is approving a plan allowing Tennessee to use hundreds of millions of dollars for education.  Under the plan 830-million dollars from the American Rescue Plan will go towards education.  The department of education says the money will be used to reopen schools safely, keep them safe and help give opportunities to kids, especially those impacted by the coronavirus outbreak.  Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn says funding will be maximized to help students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

A driver in Springfield was taken into custody Wednesday night after he crashed his vehicle into a house on S Pawnee Dr. There were three people inside the home at the time of the crash including a ten-year-old child. Officials say it appears that the vehicle was on Brown St when the driver failed to negotiate a turn onto Pawnee Dr and crashed into the home but the accident is still under investigation. No one was injured.

It’s been a while since we’ve checked on that cruise ship stuck on a sand bar in Lake Barkley. As of this morning it’s still there. But the U.S. Coast Guard says work to unground the American Jazz from that sandbar on Lake Barkley will start today.  The ship got stuck last Wednesday.  More than 30 crew members remain on the ship.

Robertson County has opened BlueCross Healthy Place at Woodlawn Park.  It features  a Community pavilion, age appropriate play areas for children, and fitness stations.  The County applied for the BlueCross Healthy Place grant, because of the positive impact a revitalized community space would have on the area.