Articles from the May 4, 2023 edition
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South Central Area Fairboard to go Live with Election Coverage
The group that brought you live coverage of last year’s elections is at it again! The South Central Area Fair is pleased to announce they will be going live on facebook with Rob Inman and Mike Hinson to bring you real-time results from the H...
Lewis County Retired Teachers Group Elects New Officers
Due to the pandemic, the Lewis County Retired Teachers group had not met in four years. However, the weekend brought them back together for lunch, good company, a meeting with the new Director of...
Clayburn Signs with Bethel University
Lewis County High School senior Bryson Clayburn signed his commitment to Bethel University for basketball and tennis on April 25th. He is pictured with his parents, Darren and Michelle Clayburn,...
Ticked Off At Cancer Ride
The 12th annual Ticked Off At Cancer Ride will be held Saturday, May 6. Come out and support a great ride for an awesome cause. The 2023 event is in honor of Larry Skelton who started this ride 12...
11th Annual Springfest This Weekend
Happening this weekend is the 11th Annual Hohenwald Springfest! May 5 & 6, Memorial Park will transform into a festival grounds where there will be entertainment for all ages! The host, Friends of...
Grand Jury returns 42 true bills
Lewis County Grand Jury of the Circuit Court met May 1 with the Honorable Michael E. Spitzer, Judge of the Thirty-Second Circuit Court at Hohenwald presiding. Following one day of examining 6 witnesses, 42 true bills and 0 no true bills were found...
End of School Schedule
Director of Schools, Dr. Tracy McAbee, has announced the end of the year school schedule: • May 18, 2023 will be an administration day, no students. • Friday, May 19, 2023, will be an abbreviated day with buses leaving the middle school campus at...
Adam Clark Named LCHS Principal
Lewis County School District is pleased to announce that Adam Clark will be the new principal of Lewis County High School, effective June 2. Clark brings extensive experience and a passion for educati...
Ralph Douglas Vineyard
Ralph Douglas Vineyard left this earthly world in the evening hours of April 25, 2023, at the age of 82. Mr. Vineyard was born in McEwen, Tennessee, to the late Herbert and Martha Vineyard on August...
Devin Gregory Kubiak
Devin Gregory Kubiak left this earthly world on April 26, 2023, at the age of 27. Devin was born in Portland, Oregon on March 9, 1996, to Maryjane Kay Stone Kubiak and the late Gregory Lee Kubiak. In...
Terrance Lester Halley
Terrance “Terry” Lester Halley, age 74 of Lyles, Tennessee, departed this life at his home on Saturday, April 29, 2023 with his loving wife Julia by his side. Terry was born on June 11, 1948 in Dahlgren, Illinois to the late Ivan Halley and Jul...
Verlin Rose Horton George
Verlin Rose Horton George was born November 13, 1930 in Michie, Tennessee, the daughter of the late Denton R. and Velma Hardin Horton. She was united in marriage to Malcom F. George on July 26, 1951....
Alida Bernice Skelton
Alida Bernice “Nookie” (Spurgeon) Skelton, 94, of Hohenwald, passed from this life on Thursday, April 27, 2023, at her home. Alida was born on October 28, 1928, to Joe Wilson and Mary Doxie (Beatty) Spurgeon in Lewis County. On July 28, 1946, she...
Clayburn Clinton Smith, Jr.
On April 22, 2023, just three days shy of his 76th birthday, Clayburn Clinton Smith Jr. passed away at his Hohenwald home. He was born in Hohenwald, on April 25, 1947, to Clayburn C. Smith Sr. and...
Carolyn Sue McClearen Gafford
Carolyn Sue McClearen Gafford, 84, was born on November 5, 1938, to Bonnie Rhea Skelton McClearen and Way Wright McClearen. She had a wonderful life in Kimmins, where her father, Way, owned and...
Norman Gregory Durham
Norman Gregory Durham, Esquire, of Sanford, North Carolina passed away Friday April 28, 2023 at the age of 68. Mr. Durham was born in Hickman County, and raised in Hohenwald. He was a son of Hilda Christine Gilbert Durham and the late Edward Eugene...
Superhero Retires from LCES
Committing to 30 years of anything is a true feat in today’s world. But that’s exactly what Lea Ann Anderson did. For thirty years, she committed herself to not just one job, but many. As an ele...
New Bricks at War Memorial
New bricks at the War Memorial Building were laid on April 14 for Jack Labar, Franklin Buddy Sharp, Bill D. & Kathy Sharp and Ronald Gene Sharp. The Sharp family came out to celebrate the occasion....
Good News for Bicyclists on the Natchez Trace Parkway
Milepost 385.9, Meriwether Lewis Site, is one of several locations benefitting from new additions to the Natchez Trace Parkway. Each year, bicyclists from all of the world travel the Natchez Trace,...
Barber Celebrates 20th Hole in One!
On April 17, David Barber made his 20th hole-in-one, on the third hole par 4. Playing partners were Gary Phelps, Ken Collier, Tim Carroll and Larry Gordon. This was the third hole-in-one on the third...
Lewis County Food Distribution Scheduled
The South Central Human Resource Agency will have a commodity food distribution for Lewis County residents only. It will be held May 23, 2023 from 10:00-11:30 a.m. located at Memorial Park Community Building, 115 Smith Ave., Hohenwald. The...
The Sanctuary Announces the Passing of Asian Elephant, Nichole
nnessee is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Asian elephant Nichole at age 48. Nichole was the 30th resident at The Sanctuary. Nichole arrived March 9, 2023, with a long history of chronic...
Confederate History Month
On the evening of May 10, 1864 Spotsylvania, Virginia, as the War Between the States ground on into its fourth straight year, 26 year old James Robert Montgomery, a private in the Confederate Signal Corps in Virginia, wrote a letter to his father...
By One Day at a Time
Well it is a cool morning here in our little valley. It is a little too cool to sit out on the porch this morning, I sure am looking forward to later on this spring when it warms up just a little more, then we will be having lots of warm sunshine...
Gordonsburg/Little Swan News
I don’t know what this weather is that we are now experiencing but wish it would soon warm up some, the nights have been in the upper thirties and days in the fifties and sixties. I am tired of the cold weather and you never know how to dress for i...
