Kingston Springs News

Some Cheatham County School Board members say they would like to give teachers a pay raise next year, but they know it might not happen since the district is facing a $1.2 million shortfall.

A Kingston Springs man pleaded guilty Thursday to the fatal shootings of a prison nurse and her four-year-old daughter in Crossville in 2006.

A man accused in the 2006 murder of a prison nurse and her 4-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life without parole.

The Cheatham County Community Theater and John E. Mayfield Charitable Foundation will present "The Wizard of Oz" July 24-26, July 31 and Aug.

Cheatham County's emergency medical services department has been offered a vacate date of Oct.

The Harpeth River Duck Race, The Wild Duck Race and The Corporate Race will occur on Derby Day at Kingston Springs in L.L. Burns Park.

Investigators are calling it an organized scheme, a high-tech crime that's hitting people across the state, and it may be happening when drivers swipe their card at the pump.

Summer is here. The kids are out of school, and the skateboards are rolling in Ashland City - on downtown sidewalks, down side streets and across basketball courts and walking trails.

Fifty summer workers will be helping out as part of WorkForce Essentials' summer youth employment program.

Kids with cancer have been given the chance to put their worries away for the week.

Seasoned musician Patrick Weickenand first picked up a harmonica when he was a child, and has carved out a career in music throughout his lifetime.

The Cheatham County Commission's budget committee got its first look at the proposed 2009-2010 budget last week, and officials say it's going to be a challenge balancing the budget.

The Kingston Springs City Commission passed on first reading Thursday the town's 2009-2010 budget.

Kingston Springs rockabilly artist Ronnie Lee Twist entertained a live radio audience from Pleasant View's Coach House on Friday as WQSV 790 AM rocked the world with its Pleasant View sock hop.

The rhythm of the Harpeth River conducts the pace of life in Kingston Springs, a town of about 3,000 people some 20 miles west of Nashville.

My Sunday column about multiple uses for things we have around the house has spawned more good ideas from my smart, adaptable readers.

While the greatest obstacle to my proposed chicken coop has been my farming-agnostic spouse, I think I made some progress last week convincing him that farm-fresh eggs really are better than store-bought. My friend Carrie Ferguson Weir, founder of Los Pollitos Dicen children's Spanish T-shirt line , recently brought me a dozen guinea eggs from her ...

The response to the summer work program, funded by federal stimulus money, has been even better than expected according to Gracie Morgan, WorkForce Essentials' senior manager in Cheatham County.

Tennessee Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Leyman Joe Weaver of Kingston Springs is in the rugged terrain of Afghanistan teaching villagers basic farming techniques such as planting and harvesting wheat, planting corn in rows and using trellises to grow tomatoes and grapes.

Vince Gill will be swinging and not singing Sunday and Monday. The country star will host his 17th annual golf tourney, The Vinny Pro-Celebrity Junior Invitational, at the Golf Club of Tennessee in Kingston Springs west of Nashville.