McKENZIE (February 8) — Bethel University was the site of a meeting point for the beginning of discussions about education ties to the BlueOval City Project with Ford Motors and the SK battery pack corporation. The summit was initiated by the City of McKenzie to open dialogue between Ford and community leaders. Included in the luncheon were representatives from the McKenzie Special School District and Board of Education, the Carroll County Board of Education, TCAT-McKenzie, Bethel University along with city and county officials. more

Politics is a dirty business and at times it resembles a soap opera. Naturally, there are scandals of various natures that present themselves at every level. I’m always interested in a good political scandal which is one reason I wrote about Ray Blanton last year. more

McKENZIE (May 9) — On Thursday two things happened regarding Broadway Street: the one-way street sign was removed temporarily allowing two-way travel on the street; and during the meeting of the McKenzie City Council, Ordinance 569 to convert Broadway to a one-way street passed its first of two readings. more

ATWOOD — West Carroll’s School Board met in regular session on Thursday, November 3 in the cafeteria of the Jr. High/Sr. High School. more

NORTHWEST TENNESSEE — The National Weather and West Tennessee Weather Online are forecasting bitter cold weather and possibly a slight accumulation of snow as Christmas approaches. Lows are predicted to be around 2 degrees on Friday night. more

NASHVILLE — Eleven Tennessee counties will receive federal recovery assistance under a Major Disaster Declaration in place today as a result of the severe winter weather that impacted the state on December 22-27, 2022. more

I met Henry Walter “Hamper” McBee in 1965. He was a mid-thirty, fast talking, skinny guy wearing an out-of-place black vest and sporting a huge, oversized handlebar mustache. He was sitting on a table in Tubby’s Drive Inn singing a song he’d written about a local highway patrolman named Bill Malone. more

McKENZIE (November 9) — McKenzie Mayor and Council voted to increase the rates on the schedule of building permit fees during its November 9 meeting. more

The year was 1979. My young wife and I decided we would recapture a memory from our dating years in the early 70’s and return to the bowling alley we’d frequented back then. more

HUNTINGDON (May 6) — A new headquarters for the Carroll County Emergency Communications District (commonly known as the 911 district) is moving forward after the Board of Directors voted to proceed with the design of a new 5,422 square-foot facility on Dillahunty Lane in Huntingdon. more

McKENZIE — Bethel University is hosting the annual Miss Bethel University Volunteer and the Miss Carroll County Volunteer pageant on November 19, at 6 p.m. in the Dickey Fine Arts Building on Bethel’s campus. This combined pageant acts as a preliminary for the Miss Tennessee Volunteer Scholarship pageant held each July in Jackson. Deadline for application is Tuesday, November 15. more

McKenzie Special School District Board of Education meets January 3, 2023, 3 p.m. at the Central Office on Bell Avenue. more

  MILAN (January 26)  - Drug Task Force Director Johnie Carter says an Atwood man is in custody after he assaulted Agents during his arrest on felony drug charges last Thursday … more

Working in newspaper business and political area, you come across a huge assortment of folks. The longer you’re in the business you see multiple generations of folks have a tendency to follow in their forefather’s footsteps. In the April 25, 2023 edition of The Banner, local students bore witness to The Tennessee Civil Court of Appeals. One of the justices on the panel was Frank Clement, Jr. son of former Tennessee Governor Frank G. Clement. A few years back while I was a member of the McKenzie City Council, I had the privilege to welcome the former governor’s other son, Bob Clement, to town. more

A. Roll call, declaration of quorum, and call to order. B. Approval of council minutes of the August 22, 2023 regular meeting and September 8, 2023 called meeting. C. Approval of bills and/or report … more

HUNTINGDON — On the 10th of November 2023, the Carroll County Sheriff Department’s: Office of Reentry celebrated the graduation of their first five female offenders to complete an intensive cognitive-behavioral program called Moral Reconation Therapy, MRT for short. more

McKenzie Farmers Market Reopens Saturday, June 4, 8 a.m., 2431 Cedar Street, in downtown McKenzie. The former Studebaker dealership was converted to an indoor/outdoor farmers market and allows area citizens to sell their homemade and homegrown foods and other products. more

PARIS — Henry County Mayor John Penn Ridgeway stated he along with  Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton and State Representative Tandy Darby drove out to Puryear to go over details of what will be a 3.1-mile portion of the highway that will start around Howard Road in Henry County and go to the Kentucky state line. more

CARROLL COUNTY — The weekend was filled with high school graduations in Carroll County from the five county high schools. The events began Friday, May 10 with graduations at Clarksburg and West Carroll, Saturday at Huntingdon, and Sunday at McKenzie and Hollow Rock-Bruceton Central. more

NASHVILLE — For the second year in a row, a McKenzie Rebel has been nominated for Class A’s Mr. Football Award.  Last year, it was junior running back Marquez Taylor and this year it is senior quarterback Jackson Cassidy. more