Archives: 2021

No new cases of COVID-19 in Madison County

JACKSON, Tenn. — No new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Madison County on Monday morning, according to the Jackson-Madison County Regional Health Department. There are currently 10,985 total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Madison County. The health department says there are currently two Madison County residents hospitalized due to COVID-19 complications. None of those patients are on a ventilator….

Nominations announced for historic 93rd Academy Awards ceremony

NEW YORK (AP) — David Fincher’s “Mank” has led nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards with 10 nods. For the first time, two women — Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell — were nominated for best director. Eight films were nominated for best picture. “Mank” was joined by Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman,” Zhao’s “Nomadland,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Sound of…

Nancy Price  Graham

  Obituary form for Paris Post-Intelligencer McEvoy Funeral Home, Inc.                                                                         Paris, TN 38242                           Phone # (731)642-1441 Name: City & State Nancy Price  Graham, Paris, TN formerly of Big Sandy Age: 96 Place of Death: Henry County Medical Center ER Date of Death: Friday, March 12, 2021 Funeral…

Myron Lloyd “Dean, DD” Youngbluth

   Myron Lloyd Youngbluth , age 83, passed away Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at his residence in Paris, Tennessee.  Myron was born in Wagner, South Dakota on January 22, 1938 to the late Lloyd and Genevieve Youngbluth.             Myron served his Country as a Korean War era Veteran from 1955-1958. He was assigned to an artillery unit, spending most of…

James “Todd” Norton

James “Todd” Norton, age 49, resident of Oakland, Tennessee and devoted husband and loving father, passed from this world to his eternal home on Friday, March 12, 2021. Todd was born August 24, 1971 in Meridian, Mississippi, the son of Jim and Debbie McQuary Norton. He was a 1990 graduate of Kingsbury High School in Memphis, Tennessee and graduated from…

Scattered Storms Thru Late Morning

Weather Update: March 15 — Good Morning West Tennessee. Scattered Showers continue through the region this morning via a weakening cold front. A broad cut-off upper low is slowly pinwheeling east across the Central Plains this morning. At the surface an area of low pressure is lifting NNE along the Mississippi River towards St.Louis and dragging a weak cold front…

UT Martin’s Music Department continues music series

MARTIN, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee at Martin’s Music Department is hosting multiple musical series, guiding music majors through the importance of sound. The series features popular musicians who give their insight on music. The university invited special guest Raúl Malo, lead singer of country music band ‘The Mavericks.’ “Really if you expose them to good music early on,…

Jackson Chamber addresses state of local business a year into pandemic

JACKSON, Tenn. — It’s been one year since COVID-19 made it’s way into the U.S., and the Jackson Chamber is giving an update on the progress of businesses in the local area. “When you look at the short and long-term impacts that COVID had and continues to have from a health perspective, the best thing to do was close businesses…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg statue unveiled in Brooklyn

(CBS Newspath) — This statue honoring the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was unveiled in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York on Friday (3/12). The borough president also proclaimed March 15th, 2021, what would have been her 88th birthday, will be Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Day.