It took several grants, a significant investment by Warren County Utility District, support from a number of local, state and federal officials, and even a trip to Washington D.C. by County Executive John Pelham, but the $3.7 million project to pump water atop Harrison Ferry Mountain has been fully funded, and construction is slated to…

Construction on the much-discussed, and much-desired, four-lane highway to Woodbury is currently under way, though only the first phase of the project, a 1.1-mile stretch to Spring Valley Road, has been funded. And now, after more than two decades of discussion and planning, drawing support from officials like Jerry Cooper, Congressman Lincoln Davis and Gov.…

It began in April with casting at Capalano’s. And it ended in early June when the final scene was shot in Warren County. During its over two weeks of local filming, the movie ‘Tenebrous’ was the talk of the town. Now there’s more recent news about the soon-to-be released movie. It has a new name.…

Prosecutors came one vote short of convicting longtime county Trustee Joy Slatton on charges she paid her employee and daughter for time she did not work in the county office. Slatton had entered not guilty pleas to charges she paid daughters Gaye Lentz and Rene Brown for time they did not work. While the charges…

Mrs. Lela Myrtle (Mutt) Bilbrey McBride, age 95 of the Rock Island community died Dec. 23 at River Park Hospital. She was born Feb. 26, 1912 in Overton County and was a member of the Rock Island Church of Christ, the Rock Island Lions Club and Rock Island Ladies Club. She was a Gold Star…

A veteran of the United States Marines and a Korean War veteran, James Edward Grayson died Dec. 26 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Nashville. He was 78 years of age and a truck driver for BFI Waste Management. The son of the late James and Virginia Marbury Grayson, he was also preceded in death…

Warren County native Barbara Ann Berry died suddenly Dec. 23 at River Park Hospital. A homemaker, Mrs. Berry, age 53, was the daughter of the late Elbert and Weltham May Parker Bell. She is survived by her husband, Thomas Ralph Berry of Morrison; children and spouses, Donna and Brad Gross of Viola and James (Bubba)…

BY Jim Mullen Like millions of people around the world, I struggle with a severe learning disability. It often causes me to say things that I regret, it wreaks emotional and financial damage to my friends and family, and costs my employer tens of thousands of dollars a year. No, it’s not something trendy like…

The (Murfreesboro) Daily News Journal It has been a good week for the cause of more open government, with promising signs on the state and national levels that at least some elected officials understand the importance of the public’s right to know what its government does. Nationally, Congress overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation that toughens the…

The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal Congress passed an energy bill that focused more attention on controversial fuel economy standards for the nation’s automotive fleet. Slipping in under the radar was another major provision that requires 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel to be produced by 2022. Of that, 21 billion must be from advanced biofuel ‘…