Milton News

Paramedics rushed a young child by helicopter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Friday morning following a head-on collision in Lebanon.

The Rutherford County Election Commission promised Milton voters Monday their precinct and fire hall polling place will be restored at its next meeting April 1. "It's part of our identity," Milton resident Penny Hooper told the commissioners, who decided they had to hold off on votes to restore the Milton precinct and divide the Kittrell precinct ... (more)

When LaRue Chaney was a child, she was taught that -- despite growing up in a place called Little Hope -- goals, dreams and, indeed, "hope" are what life is all about.

It may sound hard to believe, but people in one Middle Tennessee county now have to pay long-distance charges to call others in another part of the same county.

People in Murfreesboro and other parts of Rutherford County trying to call Milton residents who are customers of DeKalb Telephone Cooperative are being forced to dial long distance.