Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898
Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898
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Health Angels is sponsoring Neci Baker's fifth grade class for the 2020-2021 school year. Mrs. Baker was presented with a check to purchase supplies needed for the students....
Submitted by Carol Reese, UT Extension Western Region horticulturist Green plants are everywhere you look. It is easy to walk past a little green plant a dozen times or even a dozen years without noticing it, until the day its perfect beauty demands attention. Appreciation is amplified when that little green plant makes no demands on the gardener for being exquisite. It's hard to think of a lower maintenance plant than a sedum, though they cannot be lumped together for appearance or...
September 01, 1960 A city referendum would be held September 10 at the Court House to determine whether city residents wished to have a paid garbage collection service in Hohenwald. A referendum would be held September 17 at the Court House to determine whether county residents wished to keep parking meters installed by the City of Hohenwald. The meters were installed last September on a nine-month trial basis and placed throughout the business district at every other parking place. The...
Marty Murphy and Julie Higgins donated Cornhole game boards for Krista Hinson's physical education classes at Lewis County Elementary School. Pictured are, left, Marty Murphy, Krista Hinson, Remington Bradley, Principal Dr. Mike Taylor and Julie Higgins....
August 18, 1960 State and County officers and Federal and State ATU agents destroyed a six-barrel copper still in the Buffalo River near the Napier section of the county. No arrests were made; however, a two-wheel trailer was confiscated. The Lewis County Jaycees versus Businessmen Old Maid softball game was scheduled for August 19. The Hohenwald Little League team, behind the pitching of Pat Halfacre, won the championship game of the Tri-County tournament. They defeated Lobelville with a score...
Lewis County Public Library presents "To Make Our Voices Heard: Tennessee Women's Fight for the Vote", a new traveling exhibition, on display now through September 30. The exhibition, created in partnership with the Tennessee State Museum and the Tennessee State Library and Archives, explores the history of the woman's suffrage movement, Tennessee's dramatic vote to ratify the 19th Amendment in 1920, and the years that followed. "The library is honored to be selected as an exhibit site to...
August 25, 1960 The U. S. Census Bureau reported that Lewis and Maury Counties were the only counties in South Central Tennessee to show population gains over the last decade. Lewis had a 2.1 percent increase while Maury had a 2.5 percent gain. The Hohenwald composite squadron of the Civil Air Patrol aided the City of Hohenwald during a power interruption by using their mobile generator to supply electricity to keep City Hall lighted and the county – highway patrol radio transmitter and receiver...
August 11, 1960 Bids on the construction of the new Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company industrial plant were opened at the Court House by J. H. Warf, chair of the Industrial Commission. Bids were being compared and analyzed by the commission and a contract would be awarded in the near future. The City of Hohenwald announced that a water main would be installed on Smith Street to extend water west on Smith Street from Walnut Street. Bob Swope of Nashville was the winner of the 2nd annual Invita...
A group of men and women met on Monday, August 3, the day before school started, to hold a prayer walk, organized by Judy Runions. The group walked around the campus of each Lewis County School, saying a prayer for its students and teachers as they went back to school....
Katelyn Summer Johnston of Hohenwald graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Forensic Psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University's commencement ceremony, held on May 18, 2020 in Teaneck, New Jersey. While at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Katelyn studied criminal justice abroad in London, England, and she also completed an internship at Northern State Prison in Newark, New Jersey. Katelyn is a 2014 graduate of Lewis County High School in Hohenwald, and a 2018 graduate of Cumberland...
The Tennessee Department of Education and Trevecca Nazarene University announced today that the deadline for the free teacher training on digital learning and teaching has been extended for an additional month and is available through Labor Day. Since the launch in May, this free, self-paced and optional online training has equipped over 18,000 Tennessee educators with skills for digital learning and teaching. In order to continue providing this online resource to educators as schools prepare to reopen for the 2020-21 school year, this...
Hohenwald Confederate Gray 2681 Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy recently made a donation of six backpacks and a duffle bag to the Department of Children's Services for use by foster and at-risk children. This donation is in keeping with the UDC Educational and Benevolent goals of the UDC. Darlene Johns, left, President of Confederate Gray, presented the items to Miranda Ray of DCS....
Two residents of Hohenwald have earned a degree from Western Governors University (WGU). Charity Couch received a Bachelor of Arts, Elementary Education and Crystal Chessor received a Bachelor of Science, Business - Human Resource Management. WGU has recognized 7,734 undergraduate and 5,254 graduate degree recipients who have completed their degrees since April 1, 2020. Their areas of study include business, K-12 education, information technology, and health professions, including nursing. The average time to graduation for those earning a...
July 28, 1960 The public was invited to watch the playing of the second Invitational Tournament at the Hohenwald Recreation and Golf Club on August 7. Approximately 1,000 people attended the Lewis County Horse Show sponsored by the Lewis County Civic Club. There were 88 entries. Bobby Cothran won first prize in the class composed of Lewis County residents. Jerry Ogg was assigned to the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Dempsey Goodman was serving aboard the Pacific Fleet...
Our annual Back to School Edition is available in this week's issue PDF and in print. Click "View PDF" in the upper right hand corner of this story to view the online version, or come into our office and grab yourself a paper! The issue contains things such messages from teachers, new hires, and Benny Pace; Lunch and Breakfast prices; Dress Codes; and School Supply Lists!...
Parenting Apart has been approved by the 21st Judicial District (which includes Hickman, Lewis and Perry Counties) to offer a 4- hour Parenting Education Seminar for divorcing parents, unmarried parents, and/or legal guardians of dependent minors living in separate households. The next class will be held on Saturday, July 25th 2020 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at The Strand, 100 E. Main Street, Hohenwald, TN 38462. Feel free to bring a drink and snack. All COVID-19 precautions will be taken. To register for this class, get information, or to...
Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE began to pass over Lewis County this past week, and Photographer Pete Noblin was there to catch it on camera. The comet was first spotted by NASA on March 27, 2020, while they were conducting a Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission. NASA spotted the comet using two infrared channels, which are sensitive to heat signatures given off by the object as the Sun started to heat it up. NASA defined comets as "cosmic snowballs of frozen gas, rock...
July 21, 1960 General elections in Lewis County were set for August 4. No Lewis County candidate had opposition. The 1960 Horse Show, sponsored by the Lewis County Civic Club, was scheduled for July 22 at Memorial Park. W. L. Tuttle shot a hole-in-one while playing golf on vacation at the Abilene Municipal Golf Course in Texas. Jerry Armstrong was stationed with the Early Warning Squad at the Naval Air Station at Barber’s Point, HI. Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Johnston celebrated their 50th anniversary w...
Author DeeGee Lester, retired director of education for the Parthenon in Nashville, visited the Lewis County Public Library on July 10, 2020 as part of the library's "Imagine Your Story: Happily Ever Hohenwald" summer reading program. Lester shared excerpts from her recent book "Quentin Roosevelt's White House Gang" and delighted children with exciting tales of Quentin Roosevelt's games, antics, and childhood fun growing up in the White House. Her passion and enthusiasm for Theodore Roosevelt...
July 14, 1960 Bids for the construction of the new $3 million plant to be built here for use by the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company would be opened at the Court House on August 9. It was also announced that Robert Beaugardus would come to Hohenwald in January as plant manager. The Lewis County Composite Squadron, Civil Air Patrol had its first job on July 2 when it came to the aid of a student pilot from Alabama who made a forced landing in a weeded field of James Brown, one mile east of...
Documentation for Kindergarten students for the upcoming school year should be turned in soon, Dr. Mike Taylor, Principal of Lewis County Elementary School, reminds parents or guardians of upcoming kindergarten students. “If you registered your child for kindergarten in the spring and have not turned in required enrollment documents, please turn these in at the white house on the south end of Lewis County Elementary School at 317 South Oak Street or mail to Lewis County Elementary School at 305 South Oak Street, Hohenwald, TN 38462.” Req...
Sydney Gordon, daughter of Jeremy and Selena Gordon, graduated from General Assembly Academy on May 29, 2020. Sydney participated in Tammy's School of Dance for four years and works at AHC Lewis Nursing and Rehabilitation as a Certified Nurses Assistant. Her plans for the future are to attend Columbia State Community College and pursue a degree as an RN in Pediatrics. Sydney is the granddaughter of Larry and Linda Hinson and Mike and Penny Ashley....
June 30, 1960 The Hohenwald Rotary Club announced they would construct a new adult shuffleboard slab at Memorial Park. The 32nd annual reunion and picnic of all former residents of Hohenwald was held at Lowell Park in Dixon, Illinois. Fifty-one people attended the event. Photos were published of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Holden on West Main Street and the home of Jennie Brown on Swan Avenue. Both homes were painted as part of the Clean Up, Paint Up, Fix Up campaign. The following births were...
TCAT Hohenwald's President, Kelli Kea-Carroll, broke into song during her graduation speech on Friday, June 19. "Standing in the hall of fame, everybody's gonna know your name. 'Cause you burn with the brightest flame. And the world's gonna know your name. And you'll be on the walls of the hall of fame," Kea-Carroll sang from The Script's "Hall of Fame." Although COVID-19 made an effort (and succeeded) in shutting down some major events this year, TCAT Hohenwald was determined to see their...
June 23, 1960 A committee from the Lewis County Civic Club was working with city officials to improve the city’s garbage collection and disposal services, especially within the business section of town. One resident and two youth from Indiana were charged with the break in of Bob Lynch’s grocery store on Summertown Highway. Entry was gained by breaking the glass from a rear door. Cigarettes, watches, a shotgun, pennies, and candy were taken. They were apprehended when the Tennessee Highway Pat...
