Smyrna News

Cowboy church preacher and saddle maker Ken Oldham works from his saddlery in Christiana.

Motlow State Community College presented a request, which was approved for the full commission, for $200,000 toward expanding its Smyrna campus to the Budget and Finance Committee Thursday.

Nora Peebles, 8, reads to her mom, Racquel and brother, Gabriel, 4. Racquel Peebles balances being a lawyer in Smyrna, while home schooling her two children.

'Aladdin Jr.' on stage: 2 p.m., The Arts Center of Cannon County, 1424 John Bragg Highway, Woodbury.

Ernie Johns, who served as a volunteer on the steering committee to help develop a comprehensive zoning plan for the county, maintains the document is a starting point and isn't aimed at taking away anyone's property rights.

Smyrna, Your new career: Building a global logistics network Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics is currently seeking a talented Sr.

Charges are pending against numerous burglary suspects accused of breaking into Rutherford and surrounding county homes and stealing almost $200,000 worth of stolen property, according to a Rutherford County Sheriff's Office news release.

Those in attendance at the solar farm ribbon cutting at the Smyrna/Rutherford County Airport prepare to officially open the facility.

On Wednesday, the Smyrna-Rutherford County airport officials cut the ribbon on the six-acre site just east of the airport.

If you are looking to celebrate Valentine's Day early and take advantage of everything going on this weekend, you will not be disappointed in the date night opportunities.

The month of January had several things happen that brought to mind a simple question: Am I prepared? We first had our first official tornado of the year in Smyrna, luckily small, and I-24 was closed for a period due to a fiery truck accident.

State Reps. Mike Sparks , Karen Camper and John DeBerry stand by a bust of Sampson Keeble, Tennessee's first black legislator, which graces the entrance to the Tennessee House Chambers.

The new AbsolutelyGospel.com hosts and first list of performers for have been announced for the 2012 Absolutely Gospel Music Awards Celebration, taking place Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at the River of Life Church in Smyrna, TN .

A Smyrna man convicted of an armed robbery of three people at their home in 2010 has received a 57-year prison sentence by a Rutherford County Circuit Court Judge.

As a small boy, I thought they were "prison convicts" as they worked up and down the railroad spur in front of our farm house that is until I heard them chant a diddy that went something like this: "I got a girl in New Orleans, Prettiest girl you ever seen." That's when I asked farm neighbor A.J. Neel about those black men who seemed to work and ... (more)

The Tennessee Small Business Development Center is sponsoring a Small Business Tax Workshop from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday at the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce Building, located at 3050 Medical Center Parkway.

Blackman's boys improved to 17-3 overall and 6-1 in District 7-AAA play with a 49-43 victory over Smyrna on Tuesday night.

Some crooks are putting a new spin on an old tactic to swindle money. Fake contractors are preying on elderly women in Smyrna, claiming they have done work, and they've come to collect their money.

Police said the two men went to several homes posing as contractors, roofers and/or gutter installers in Smyrna on January 25.

By the numbers Stewarts Creek High Construction cost: $39.606 million Furniture, fixtures and engineering: $6.736 million Size: 350,000 square feet Eagleville expansion Construction cost: $2.976 million Furniture, fixtures and engineering: $524,000 Size: approximately 35,000 square feet Ground was broken on the 350,000-square-foot Stewarts Creek ... (more)