Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898
Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898
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The eclectic variety shop, Twenty One North, held their "ribbon cuttting" on Friday, April 29, 2022. Business owner Amanda Curtis was excited to share her new venture with all of her friends who were in attendance. "Welcome to Twenty One North," said Curtis, "I'm so happy to be here where I grew up." She went on to talk about some of her fondest memories of when she had her first singing gig right around the corner. With pots and pans, they sang, "Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go. We're...
Present for the Monday night meeting of the Hohenwald Planning Commission were Chairman John Risner, Connie Sharp, Jim Lech, Steve Keeton, City Mayor Danny McKnight and Don Barber. Committee members Ben Floyd and Eddie DeNicolais were absent. The meeting began with Sharp motioning to accept last month’s meeting minutes, and Keeton seconded. The minutes were unanimously accepted. The first item on the agenda was to discuss the water drainage of Industrial Park. The Commission hired Braden Hinson to perform a hydrology study in order to d...
During the alloted time for public input at this month’s County Commission meeting, former Solid Waste Director Bradley Loveless spoke to the Commission regarding a resolution that would increase the allowance of scale and pit material from 250 lbs to 500 lbs. The resolution stated that it would also allow trees, brush, concrete and other such non-pit material to be discarded at the dump for no cost, as well as would allow owners of multiple businesses and residents to combine their stickers and their daily/weekly allowances of pit or n...
The Lewis County Board of Education has narrowed down their search for a new director to four candidates, and there will be an opportunity for the public to meet them. Eleven applicants applied and the applicants included current LCMS Principal Brandi Feichtinger, Supervisor of Student and Support Services Allen Trull, former basketball coach and teacher Larry Helton, former assistant principal Brian True, Chris Treadway, Vince Owens and Tammy Patterson. One other person applied but withdrew their application before the selection process began....
A sea of green t-shirts filled the courtroom in support of the Lewis County Public Library and Archives' Librarian Crystal Nash as she prepared to ask the County for a donation at Monday night's County Commission meeting. Commissioner Robert Brewer was absent for the meeting. Commissioner Patrick Halfacre started off the meeting by making a motion to suspend the rules in order to hear the resolution before other items of business. Commissioner Austin Carroll seconded the motion, and the rules...
A special called City Council Meeting took place on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. The meeting was called to pass a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), that would allow the City to use grant funds in order to repair the city sewer in the Piney Basin area. According to Helen Ozier, City Economic and Community Development Coordinator, and Brad Rasbury, Building Inspector, you may not want to hold your breath when it comes to potential new apartments in the city. Part of Tuesday night’s meeting was dedicated to a second reading of a resolution t...
At last week’s County Commission meeting, several concerned citizens addressed the Commissioners about 5G. Jonathan Pitts, Constable of District Four, was the first to speak. “It’s been nine years since I last addressed the County Commission...where I explained what Agenda 21 was, how it would affect our lives and how a proclamation that our commissioners signed us onto was directly tied to it. “Since Don Kasey of the Alliance for Citizens Rights was already using Lewis County as an example of how this program gets packaged and sold to unsuspe...
The Lewis County Commissioners met in a regularly scheduled meeting on Monday night, March 21, 2022. Commissioner T.J. Hinson was absent for the Commission meeting. Authorizing Purchase of Track Loader for Transfer Station The first item on the agenda was a resolution authorizing the County to use the Local Government Recovery and Rebuilding Direct Appropriation State Grant funds to purchase a much needed track loader for the Transfer Station. The 2012 963D Cat Track Loader cost the County $101,500 in grant funds which is $23,000 under the...
Monday night's baseball game began with a whole community coming together to celebrate the life of Ethan Brewer. Following his untimely passing, classmates, relatives and friends began working together to do something special for him and his family. Anna Brewer, a cousin to Ethan, and friend Savanna Collie asked for donations from their class. "When we lost Ethan, our community felt it. He was the first person we lost from the Class of 2016, and as a class we wanted to do something special for...
Hohenwald's Historic Preservation Commission held a special called meeting on Monday, March 15, 2022, concerning the two houses being built on Park Avenue South by partners Stoney Anthony and Derrick Graves. Commission members Blake Farr, Scarlette Woodall, Annette Peery, Barbara Hinson, Janet Turner, Brad Rasbury and Danny McKnight were present which made a quorum. Members DeAnna Darden-Carroll and Melissa Wickline were absent. Derrick Graves and his wife Stacey Graves were present for the...
Lewis County High School was proud to announce Derek Rang as their new head football coach last week. Rang was born in Illinois and moved to Maryville, Tennessee, when he was a kid. There he played football and graduated from Maryville High School. He has been coaching for a collective 15 years and has a teaching degree in Mathematics. "I've always been very passionate about football. I felt like it was a calling to give it a shot and quickly fell in love with it, and I was lucky to be enough to...
The Lewis County Commisison met Monday, March 7. The first item on the agenda was to accept the Audit Committee minutes which read, “The Lewis County Audit Committee met on Monday, February 7, 2022, at 4:00 p.m. in the conference room at the Courthouse. Present were Donya Wade, Jonah Keltner, Patrick Halfacre and Connie Sharp. Absent were Annette Peery, Michael King and Kyle Bobo. “State Auditor Donya Wade explained the audit findings for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 and answered questions from the committee. There was a brief discussion among the...
County Commissioners, citizens and members of Leadership Lewis all gathered in the courtroom on Monday night to discuss February’s county business. Seventeen of eighteen commissioners were present with Commissioner Ronnie Brewer absent. The resounding hot topic of the night was a resolution brought before the Commission by a citizen regarding 5G mobile network installation and the hope to stop it from coming into Lewis County, pending a study on its health and safety risks. Mayor Jonah Keltner invited the concerned citizen, who raised the q...
In December of 2021, the Hardeman County Sheriff's Department received multiple calls from dog owner, Mandy Faulk, asking them to retrieve the body of her dog named Murphy who had been boarded and later died at Hatchie Bottom Kennels. What the deputies found when they arrived at the kennel would result in kennel owner, Amanda Klapp, being arrested and charged with 23 counts of animal cruelty. Deputies discovered the dogs were being kept in unsanitary conditions with one dog found dead in its...
The City of Hohenwald Planning Commission met in the Fire Department’s meeting room on Monday, February 7, 2022, to discuss subdividing Industrial Park. One of the first properties to be discussed was the Hassell Kelley property which is situated on two acres of Parcel 12. Brett and Elizabeth Redmon were hoping to purchase the property, renovate the existing house and barn and eventually run a body shop on the property. The Redmons also planned to reside in the home once it was renovated. The home belonged to Elizabeth’s grandfather before the...
"We are officially part of TCAT Hohenwald history today; you (everyone here) helped make it happen," said Tennessee College of Applied Technology President, Kelli Kea-Carroll, in a speech before cutting the ribbon to TCAT Hohenwald's new addition. The addition has been underway for a little over a year now and President Kea-Carroll could not have been happier to unveil it on Thursday, January 27, 2022. "As an administrator, we are tasked with envisioning not what tomorrow holds or even what...
The Lewis County Board of Education met on Tuesday, January 25, 2022, in a special-called workshop meeting to discuss the qualifications applicants should have to be Lewis County’s new Director of Schools following Benny Pace’s decision to retire in June. Executive Director of the Tennessee School Systems for Equity, Wayne Qualls, attended the meeting to tell School Board members what the TSSE does for rural schools and how he could help the board find a new director. TSSE is an organization that represents rural schools to aide in fig...
Commissioners discussed and debated several requests to purchase land on Industrial Park, as well as appointed a new Veterans Service Officer. Seventeen commissioners were present for Monday night's County Commission meeting with Commissioner Jim Grinder absent. Following the tragic and untimely passing of Ritchie Brewer, former Veterans Service Officer, the County Government advertised his position. They received two applications: one from Randy Duncan and one from Jeremy Owen. Owen was not pre...
This weekend marks three in a row with a blanket of snow covering the ground. Although some measured the snowfall to be around five and a half inches, it measured nine inches in other parts of Lewis County. This means Hohenwald had the greatest amount of snow in Tennessee! The snow was a great one for building and sledding. Some have even built snow forts, a snow yoda and snow penguins. However snow comes with its challenges as well. Several trees succumbed to the weight of the snow on their...
At the time of last week’s County Committee meeting, County Mayor Jonah Keltner was happy to announce to the commissioners that Lewis County is still ranked among the top in the state for sales tax revenue. The November sales tax report came out this month and showed Lewis County had an increase of 91 percent in sales tax revenue since November of 2019. In November of 2019, the sales tax was $103,305.77 and in 2021 it had bumped up to $197,498.01. Mayor Keltner also announced that the County’s General Fund stood at $1,974,704.95 at the tim...
In last week's issue, the Lewis County Herald was given information that Director of Schools Benny Pace had announced his resignation during a teacher's meeting last Tuesday morning. Although Mr. Pace will be leaving, he is not resigning. "I'm not resigning, I'm not stepping down.. I've been the Director for 19 years and I'm on a four year contract," said Mr. Pace. "The contract expires in June and I'm not asking for a renewal of contract. I'm going to fulfill my obligations to the school and...
Monday night marked the first County Committee meeting of the new year. As such, the audit reports for the county came back, and new business had to be discussed. One problem the Solid Waste department faced was finding a buyer for their bales of recyclables. When the County first began to recycle, it was understood that buyers would be willing to purchase bales of mixed plastic. However, some bales of plastic have been left sitting since Bradley Loveless was in office as Solid Waste Director. In trying to find buyers, the County learned that...
The holiday weekend started off with the promise of severe storms and temperatures of 70 degrees, but rain quickly turned into snow by Sunday night, making for a winter wonderland. Our local Tennessee Department of Transportation, TDOT, crew started tending to the roads almost as soon as the snow started to fall. They worked well into the night The National Weather Service reported that Hohenwald had an accumulation of 0.7 inches. However that was not the case for a large majority of Hohenwald...
The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce released an updated unemployment rate for the month of November on December 22, 2021. In that release Lewis County came in fourth for the state's highest rate of unemployment with 4.7 percent our workforce unemployed which is a .3 percent increase from the month of October's 4.4 percent. The department reported that Lewis County has a labor force of 5,439 with 5,185 of those employed in the month of November. A county's labor force is defined as...
By now it is no secret that the rolling mountains of Tennessee are going to be replaced on our license plate with a new design, featuring a blue background, white writing, an outline of Tennessee at the top and an optional "In God We Trust" around the tri-stars. Drivers can get their new plates at the time of their regular renewal this coming year. For example, the state's website said that if your tags expired in December of 2021, then your new plate will be given to you in December of 2022....
