ATWOOD, Tenn. — Winning football games has become a recent trend in Atwood, as the West Carroll program prepares to make more noise in 2021. The past two years the War Eagles have won a total of 15 games, advancing to the Class A state quarterfinal round each season. With that already in the back of his mind, first year…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new moratorium on evictions that would last until October 3. The Biden administration is trying to quell intensifying criticism that it was allowing vulnerable renters to lose their homes during a pandemic. The new moratorium could help keep millions in their homes as the coronavirus’ delta variant…
Tuesday Night Forecast for August 3rd: Behind Sunday’s cold front, northerly winds have brought in some drier and cooler weather that is expected to stick around for the rest of the work week. Most of us will be close to 60° tonight. The winds will shift to the south on Friday bringing an increase in the humidity and the chance…
Services for Mrs. Mattie Cathey Hamlett, age 96 of Jackson, Tennessee will be held on Saturday, August 7, 2021, 11:00 A.M., at the Mt. Pleasant C.M.E. Church. The interment will be in the Montgomery Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Friday, from 5:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M., at the Stephenson-Shaw Chapel. She will lie in state at the Church on Saturday…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country star Garth Brooks says he will be reassessing whether to continue future dates on his stadium tour in light of the rising number of COVID-19 cases across the country. Brooks said in a statement that while he’s scheduled to play the next two tour stops in Missouri and Nebraska, he will not put tickets on…
Wood prices have skyrocketed over the last year, leaving would-be home renovators deciding whether to wait out the high costs or move forward on a project that’s more expensive than it would have been a year ago. By mid-July, prices had dropped to just double their April 2020 levels, but whether the decrease will continue and when lower prices will…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Despite having some of the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the country, Tennessee isn’t planning to offer any incentives for people to get the shot. But it’s a different story when it comes to cattle, where the state has reimbursed farmers nearly half a million dollars over the past two years to vaccinate their herds against…
HENDERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — Natchez Trace State Forest is adding a new workplace for staff. On Tuesday, representatives with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, as well as community leaders, stood in front of the building for the grand opening ceremony. Tennessee Department of Agriculture spokesman Tim Phelps says the building will serve as the new work center for the state…
JACKSON, Tenn. — The Jackson City Council is working to change the budget to to keep the city’s assigned gang prosecutor. The original grant for the position ends this year, but the city wants to reinstate the funding, and also bring back the educational component of the grant which tries to prevent gang violence. “It makes sense for us to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is being sued over a law that puts public schools and their districts at risk of legal consequences if they let transgender students or employees use multi-person bathrooms or locker rooms that do not reflect their gender at birth. The federal suit filed by the Human Rights Campaign on Tuesday is the latest seeking to…
