The 2021 Kilgore Station Bluegrass Festival has events across two days, Friday & Saturday August 27-28 in Cross Plains. Featured acts include the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, King’s Highway, Ridgetop Ramblers, Luke Munday, Harpeth Run, and Sassybrown Bluegrass. Bands will begin performing that Saturday morning at 10:00.. Nearly 91-hundred school-age children in Tennessee have tested positive for the coronavirus in the last two weeks. The state saw an increase of […]
Springfield Police say “no foul play suspected” after a body was found in the Walmart parking lot Friday morning. The body was discovered in a parked tractor-trailer by the deadman’s employer around 10:50 in the morning. The body has been taken to the medical examiner’s office in Nashville. Vandalism of a Middle Tennessee church run by a controversial pastor is being investigated. Pastor Greg Locke [[ Lock ]] says Global […]
40-year-old Dawna Wilson of Cedar Hill has been charged with 2nd-degree murder in relation to the overdose death of 45-year-old Benjamin Pitt of Portland back in April. Wilson is alleged to have delivered the fentanyl-laced drug that police say killed Pitt. Wilson is currently being held in the Robertson County Jail on a $130,000 bond. The Wilson County-Tennessee State Fair is being held at the James E. Ward Agricultural Center […]
The heat is still a problem. Roberton County and Middle Tennessee will be under a heat advisory today. The National Weather Service says the advisory will be in effect from 11 o'clock in the morning until 8 at night. Some heat indexes are expected to be as high as 109 degrees. Will Elliott has been named the Career and Technical Education Early Post-Secondary Opportunity Coordinator for Robertson County Schools. He […]
It’s hot and getting hotter. Roberton County and Middle Tennessee will be under a heat advisory today and tomorrow. The National Weather Service says the advisory will be in effect from 11 o'clock in the morning until 8 at night both days. Some heat indexes are expected to be as high as 109 degrees. An adult and an 8-month-old received only minor injuries after their vehicle left Memorial Blvd at […]
There is more than $1.1 billion dollars in unclaimed property waiting to be claimed in Tennessee, and almost $3.5 million of this for individuals and business in Robertson County. The Unclaimed Property Division says you can see if any of it is yours by searching their online database of unclaimed property at ClaimItTN.gov. that website also includes a link to help you search for missing money in other states. Traffic […]
A Robertson County woman filed a $500,000 federal lawsuit against Austin Peay State University. The suit claims on-the-job discrimination and retaliation on the basis of race. Chinyere Ogbonna-McGruder, who is Black, was a faculty member who taught classes in criminal justice and public management at Austin Peay since 2003. She said she was denied her opportunity to self-select her department and, because of her race, had the decision made for […]