HAYWOOD COUNTY, Tenn. — It’s time for this week’s Educator of the Week, brought to you by the Tennessee Education Lottery. Minnie Reed is a librarian at Sunny Hill Intermediate School in Brownsville. She has been teaching in the area for quite some time: 30 years at East Side High School and one year at Sunny Hill. Reed is a native…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Highway Patrol is reminding people they can still apply to be a state trooper. The applications are open until Feb. 2, and there are two different processes for those with and those without law enforcement backgrounds. If accepted into the academy, expect the process to take up to four months. Those who go into the…
Sadie Mae Brown Holliday, age 90, resident of Eads, Tennessee, departed this life Wednesday afternoon, January 27, 2021 at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Sadie Mae was born August 15, 1930 in Middleton, the daughter of the late Booker Brown and Pairlee Gross Brown. She graduated from Middleton High School in 1947 and was a homemaker throughout her…
JACKSON, Tenn. — As states across the country rush to get vaccines out to citizens, more research is showing the true long-term effects of COVID-19. “The most common type of long-term symptoms — even if you haven’t been hospitalized — that are coming to play is fatigue, shortness of breath, cough, joint pain, chest pain, and even muscle pain and…
Good Saturday Everyone On This January The 30th: A few showers early before a break in the rain midday. Thunderstorms return mainly after 5 pm this evening with some heavy rain at times. We will likely start with a pretty sunrise on Sunday morning before a 20% chance of showers in the afternoon. In comes the colder air late day…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says two pipe bombs left at the offices of the Republican and Democratic national committees, discovered just before thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, had actually been placed the night before. The FBI says the investigation revealed that the explosive devices had been placed outside the two buildings between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30…
Services for Mr. Marvin Hill, age 66 of Jackson, Tennessee will be held on Monday, February 1, 2021, 1:00 P.M., at the Mt. Olivet Cemetery. The visitation will be on Sunday, from 12:00 Noon – 5:00 P.M., at the Stephenson-Shaw Chapel. For more information contact Stephenson-Shaw Funeral Home at (731) 427-7411 or log on to our website at www.stephenson-shaw.com Categories: Obituaries
Services for Mr. Eugene Carney Perry, age 66 of Milan, Tennessee will be held on Sunday, January 31, 2021, 1:00 P.M., at the Gibson Community Cemetery in Gibson, Tennessee. For more information contact Stephenson-Shaw Funeral Home at (731) 427-7411 or log on to our website at www.stephenson-shaw.com Categories: Obituaries
JACKSON, Tenn. — Last year, the Jackson-Madison County Library partnered with Jackson Housing Authority to provide Lincoln Courts WiFi in their community rooms. Now, they’re working together again to encourage reading in the complex by building a “Little Free Library” in the community room at Lincoln Courts. Library director Dinah Harris says Lincoln Courts residents can go to the community…
(CBS Newspath) — When a firefighter caught COVID-19, fellow firefighters rallied around him and found a way to make his hospital stay a little brighter. Categories: News
