Monterey News

Randy Williams and Dawn Kupferer, sitting, of the Upper Cumberland Development District look at plans for the Monterey portion of Rails With Trails with members of the Monterey Street Committee.Amy Davis MONTEREY -- With bids going out soon for the Monterey portion of Rails With Trails, the town is quickly deciding where, exactly, it will lie.

Peggy Fragopoulos packs items to be moved from her current classroom at Monterey High School to Uffelman Elementary School where the high school students will be housed starting next school year.

A Monterey woman was arrested Friday for allegedly stealing two baby cribs from a Cookeville motel.

Peggy Fragopoulos packs items to be moved from her current classroom at Monterey High School to Uffelman Elementary School where the high school students will be housed starting next school year.

He envisions passengers lining up at the Monterey Depot Museum, buying tickets and boarding railcars for various destinations throughout the year.

MONTEREY, Tenn. -- "If somebody told me this happened to them, I absolutely would not believe this could happen in America." That was the reaction of a New Jersey man who found out just how risky it can be to carry cash through Tennessee.

Jury selection began this morning in the trial of a Monterey man for the alleged murder of his wife in 2010.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - It was a routine trip to Nashville for a New Jersey insurance adjuster.

Police chasing the man said he ran into a house on 1322 11th Avenue South around 9 a.m. Thursday.

MONTEREY, Tenn. Richard Smith has a shrine devoted to his children including trophies and awards his 20-year-old son, Boomer, earned excelling at school and nearly every sport.

He's a familiar face around Monterey. Whether he's wielding his camera at high school ball games, scribbling notes at town meetings, checking crime reports at the police station or making weekly newspaper deliveries around town, Dale Welch is always in the thick of things when it comes to Monterey happenings.

A single punch at a late-night party cost a young man his life, but that won't be enough to make for a case of murder.

The Monterey board of mayor and aldermen will tonight consider businessman Mike Connor to be placed on the town's planning commission.

When Monterey High School students leave their school building for the summer, they won't be coming back.

It'll be like old times as the Tennessee Central Railway excursion train rolls into Monterey tomorrow.

He paid his respects as more than 1,700 Upper Cumberland area veterans were laid to rest.