Trousdale County News

GALLATIN - In boom times, Sumner Regional Health Systems went on a buying and building spree, snapping up properties, including land near its flagship hospital here, with plans to keep expanding.

Corinne Davenport said although her Confederate veteran father lived until she was 12 years old and she met some of his fellow veterans, she was too young at the time to care too much about his service.

The Riverdale High School Band and band boosters will present the 32nd Annual Division I State Marching Band Championship on November 7. Twenty-seven bands from across the state will compete for the a oeGovernors Cup,a presented annually to the best Division I marching band in the State of Tennessee.

With several reported cases of H1N1 flu - also called swine flu - in surrounding counties, it's comforting to know that Macon County officials have been preparing for both the prevention and treatment of the virus for months.

Good schools: Every community wants them, but paying for them in these tough times can be controversial.

"Skits and Bits" - Little Bits of News and History - Some you may remember, some you may have forgotten and some you may have never heard of before; but all of which took place somewhere, sometime, throughout the years.

A prisoner who escaped from from a Sumner County transport van was recaptured Tuesday morning.

An inmate who escaped custody Monday while he was being transferred from the Sumner County jail is back behind bars.

A proposal that would make more students eligible for charter schools stalled in the House Education Committee after the panel adjourned without taking up the measure.

A man accused in a beating at a Green Hills mall parking garage was captured Tuesday morning in Trousdale County after escaping from police on Monday.

Archie Dennis King went to be with the Lord on May 12, 2009. He is proceeded in death by his father William Benton King, mother Dora Ann Johnson King Richardson and sister Ann Lois King Rouse.

A full-scale search was being performed Thursday evening on the waters of Old Hickory Lake for a fisherman missing since Wednesday.

Lebanon Mayor Philip Craighead was elected Vice-President of the Greater Nashville Regional Council at their monthly meeting.

Staff Photo by John Rawlston Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield addresses the audience gathered at the Tivoli Theatre on Monday morning following swearing-in ceremonies for himself and members of the Chattanooga City Council, seated behind him.

Television and other media have been reporting the death of a Macon County woman this past Sunday in a Sumner County motor vehicle accident.

Reader Linda L. Hyland submitted this poem that she wrote following the fatal tornadoes that struck Macon and Sumner counties in February 2008.