Articles from the July 23, 2020 edition
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New Fire Truck for Lewis County
Lewis County's Board of Commissioners posed with Fire Chief Steve Vineyard, Captain Ryan Johnston, State Senator Dr. Joey Hensley, Mayor Jonah Keltner and South Central Tennessee Community...
Customer Appreciation Day at Jones Hometown Pharmacy
Jones Hometown Pharmacy will be holding a Customer Appreciation Day on Saturday, August 1 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Leading up to the big day, there will be special discounts all week, starting Tuesday, July 28. Customers may enter for door prizes...
Cool It With ($100) Cash Continues to produce winners
Editor & Publisher Hulon O. Dunn, left, presented a check for $100 to week one winner, Cheri France last Thursday. Winner of week two is JoAnn Hensley with the correct answer, "Cornerstone is...
Local COVID numbers up
Numbers of positive test results in Lewis County have climbed to 23, with 1415 negative test results, a state of Tennessee website reported Tuesday. Only 14 of the cases are reported as active with seven recovered and no deaths. In surrounding...
Lewis Co. School Officials Plan to Re-Open on Schedule
Lewis County School’s Leadership Team finalized plans for individual schools’ reopening last Friday. Extra precautions have been added to the protocols this year in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. When addressing the Lewis County Com...
City retains attorney when Chamber requests funding from county
City of Hohenwald officials called on their attorney last week after hearing of a request the local Chamber of Commerce made to Lewis County government for additional funding. A letter from the Hohenw...
Lewis Youth Compete In National Clay Target Championship in Ohio
Guns popped, shooters shot and coaches watched as their athletes competed in the week-long SCTP National Championship Tournament for shooting sports in Marengo, Ohio. Coach Maranda Clark and four...
Ronald Lee Burlison
Ronald Lee Burlison, age 67 of Hohenwald, passed away at his home on July 14, 2020. He was born in Hohenwald, on December 28, 1952 to the late John Henry Burlison & Mary Ruth (Stinson) Burlison. Mr....
Cleveland Tennyson Charles
Cleveland Tennyson Charles, 63, of Hohenwald, unexpectedly passed away July 5, 2020 in his home. He was born December 15, 1965 in Georgetown, Guyana to the late Neville and Stephanie Charles. Along...
Glenn E. Woodall
Glenn E. Woodall, age 64, of Lawrenceburg passed away Monday, July 20, 2020 at Southern TN Regional Health System in Lawrenceburg, TN. He was a native of Lawrenceburg, retired from Murray Ohio, and a...
Erica Hildebrand
Erica Dawn Hildebrand, 43, of Linden passed away Saturday July 18, 2020 at Perry Community Hospital. She was born in Ohio to Lillian Clem Hildebrand and the late Dennis Hildebrand. Erica was a...
Required Parenting Education Class
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...
Joint Economic Community Development Board holds third quarter meeting
Hohenwald, Lewis County's Joint Economic & Community Development Board (JECDB) convened for the third quarterly meeting on July 14, 2020 at Lewis County Courthouse. Attending were Johnny Clayton, Hohenwald/Lewis County Chamber President Blake Farr,...
Lewis County Recipes: Old-Fashioned Cabbage Casserole
Cabbage is used a lot in my kitchen. Easily purchased all year, it's also cheap and versatile. This casserole is a keeper for your recipe box. Be sure to get your cabbage mixture seasoned well with...
Criminal Justice Grant application deadline extended
Written by the TN Department of Finance &Administration Federal funding remains available for local law enforcement agencies, jails and courts for expenses related to COVID-19. The Office of Criminal Justice Programs (OCJP) today announced a...
Pharmacist Justin Griner honored with TSHP Pharmacist of the Year Award
Justin Griner, PharmD, BCPS, of Cordova, was recently recognized by the Tennessee Society of Health-System Pharmacists (TSHP), a Society of the Tennessee Pharmacists Association (TPA), as the 2020...
There's a comet over Lewis County and you just might see it!
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...
Former Vol develops cure for Sickle Cell Anemia in infants
Around 1,000 babies are born each year in the United States with sickle cell anemia. An inherited condition, it causes regularly round red blood cells to take on a sickle shape and die early, leaving...
Gordonsburg/ Little Swan News
It has been a really hot week, more like August than July, but really hot anyway. I hope if you are out much that you stay hydrated because many have suffered from not having enough water to drink and getting sick. Water is very important to our body...
Rambling...
Birthdays Jerry Sharp, July 23 Marty Willis, July 23 Becky Proffitt, July 23 Russell Mayberry, July 23 Carolyn Spurgeon, July 23 Starling Scott, July 23 Imogean Johnson, July 23 Jana Lay, July 23 John Hammock, July 23 Roylyn Barber, July 23 Juan...
Glimpses of Hohenwald's Past
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...
Vanderbilt University Medical to Recruit Up to 1,000 COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Volunteers
In late July, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will begin recruiting up to 1,000 volunteers in a late-stage study of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. in collaboration with the Vaccine Research Center of the...
Letter to the Editor
To the Editor: This letter is to thank the Hohenwald Post Office for their incredible solving of the case of the mysterious “run-a-way” newspapers (The Tennessean) which I should receive 6 days a week, but those pesky little devils seem to hide aro...
June Revenues
Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration Commissioner Butch Eley announced that revenues for June were $1.5 billion, which is $12.5 million less than the budgeted monthly revenue estimate. State tax revenues were $29.8 million less than...
Gov. Lee Announces Additional $115 Million for Local Governments to Support COVID-19 Response
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Today Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and the Financial Stimulus Accountability Group announced an additional $115 million in Coronavirus Relief Funds will be made available to local governments to offset costs incurred from r...
