Lewis County Herald News

“It’s been one year and one month since I brought this to your attention,” Lori McKinney told members of the Hohenwald Planning Commission.  “Can you tell me what has been done?”

“I wonder if it has been put on the back burner,” she continued.

“I can assure you it has not,” Mayor Don Jones replied.

When she and her husband purchased the lot in the Edgefield subdivision just over 10 years ago from Contractors Bill and Bret Hankins, the father/son team had no hydrology study performed on the new subdivision.

Photos by Brian Parton

At least one candidate admitted nervousness but that was quickly shed as the questions flew and answers flowed.

Candidates mastered the art of time management as 90 seconds zipped past seemingly, at the speed of light.  The green light was switched to yellow after just one minute urging those hopeful for votes to the office of Lewis County mayor in the August 5th election toward brevity and precise responses.

By Glenda Atkinson,

Staff Reporter

A Hohenwald teenager drowned in Buffalo River June 6, 2010 while on a canoe trip with friends.

According to Kenneth Martin, lead investigator for the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department, Robert Mosley, 16, a brother and sister, Cody and Amy Frizzell, and Harvey Hensley had been canoeing down the river and stopped at a sand bar at the end of Harris Road in Wayne County to picnic and swim.

Foreclosure processes across the state have banks taking second looks at properties in disrepair.  In one local case recently, Mayor Don Jones told the Hohenwald City Council, the bank gave the property back to the homeowner because they did not want the hassle of the upkeep.

According to the mayor, the property owner did not want the house and property either.

Unwilling to pay taxes and unwilling to comply with local property restrictions, the homeowner may leave City officials no choice but to condemn the property.

The eight year old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Joey Hensley was hit  by an oncoming vehicle Tuesday in an accident in front of the family home in Hohenwald.  Dr. Hensley serves the 70th District as state representative.

A witness, Troy Walton, said he passed the home traveling east on Highway 20 in Hohenwald, and saw Jenna Hensley standing by the mailbox where she had collected mail for the family.

The girl crossed the road behind the Walton vehicle into the path of an oncoming car driven by John Tracy Odem of Lawrenceburg, Walton said.

Edd Sharp and Mike Robertson of Lawrenceburg Monument Company stand in front of the monument at the Lewis County Courthouse lawn which names Lewis Countians killed in service in the last century. Sammye Jo and William Lawson researched and found four names had been omitted from the list. Those names were Vietnam, Junior Ray Burns, World War 1, Baxter Johnston, John M. Wix, and Paul Peevyhouse. Mr. Robertson engraved the names on the monument at no cost.

FEMA officials announced news of a mobile unit at which people affected by recent flooding may meet one on one with a FEMA disaster assistance specialist to report losses.

The Mobile Disaster Recovery Center (MDRC) will visit Lewis County May 17, 18 and 19 due to the county's designation for federal assistance in Middle Tennessee, to provide assistance to people affected by the severe storms and flooding that started on April 30.

The Fifth Annual 3-Man Scramble Golf Tournament for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is scheduled for Saturday, May 22, 2010 at the Hohenwald Municipal Golf Course. Entry fee will include green fee, cart and lunch. Tee time is 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. with shotgun start. All proceeds from sponsors go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker today released the following statement on Governor Bredesen’s request for a presidential disaster declaration for 52 Tennessee counties affected by this past weekend’s storm: