Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898
Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898
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NOTICE OF GRAND JURY MEETING “It is the duty of your Grand Jurors to investigate any public offense which they know or have reason to believe has been committed and which is triable or indictable in this county. Any person having knowledge or proof that such an offense has been committed may apply to testify before the Grand Jury subject to the provisions of Tennessee Code Annotates, 40-12-104.” The foreperson of this county is presently: Donald Duncan, 2174 Summertown Hwy., Hohenwald, Tennessee. “The Grand Jury will meet on Monday, Janua...
Many of you just watched the late Darren McGavin as Ralphie’s father in the umpteenth rerun of 1983’s “A Christmas Story,” but we’re approaching the 50th anniversary of another iconic McGavin role. On January 11, 1972, ABC aired “The Night Stalker” –which entered the American psyche as the highest-rated made-for-TV movie up until that time. Granted, the film was aided by being nestled between “The Mod Squad” and “Marcus Welby, M.D.” and competing against a “crowd-pleasing” NBC do...
Preview of the 2022 Legislative session BUDGET - The budget is always a top issue but it will be especially important due to strong tax collections, excess revenues and the flow of federal stimulus funds into Tennessee. The state is in the best financial condition in recent history. Economic advisors, however, have cautioned that one-time stimulus funds, changing spending patterns and high inflation could cause revenues to wane in the next fiscal year. Expect the legislature to be very...
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...
There is an old adage that says something like, "If you are sick of the weather in Tennessee, or where ever you might be, just hang around for an hour or so because it will change" This was certainly the case last week with the Christmas celebrations starting of with temperatures in the high 60's even 70's in some parts, then gale force winds that had to be topping 60 mph,and more thankfully not much damage was reported, But MLEC certainly had their hands full keeping the power on. And...
In some ways New Year's Eve didn't seem to be the time to celebrate the coming of 2022 this year. Certainly it was a great reason to say good riddance to 2021 A number of things being a factor, firstly Covid19 carried on into its third year and didn't seem to be close to ending, in fact outbreaks across the country had risen over the past month. Secondly the weather and thirdly the economy. All, or some of which might have been part of the reason that people really didn't want to celebrate and...
