Beech Bluff News

Two weeks ago, Marilyn Matlock's son Jake Bourquin came home from football practice complaining of a hurt finger.

Black gum ignites the early autumn landscape, often showing color in September. It's not a flash in the pan, however, since here it is almost November and still I see the scarlet leaves shining on this lovely native tree.

Four Charged with Insurance Fraud By: Holly Deasy hdeasy@wbbjtv.com 3:52 p.m. Four people who live in rural Madison County have been charged with insurance fraud, after a woman reported she was a victim of burglars.

A Beech Bluff woman who reported her home burglarized in May has been charged with insurance fraud along with three other people, according to a news release from the Madison County Sheriff's Office.

Teresa Hope and Sandy Rush thought their father was destined for a nursing home.

Life was going well for Rick Taylor. He had a nice home out in the country, in Henderson County, and owned a successful business.

It's been nearly three years since Morgan Leah McCarty was killed by a hit-and-run driver.

The following schools have scheduled open houses and orientations for the 2009-10 school year.

Jackson-Madison County Schools transportation supervisor Grant Ward said the first two weeks of August will be busy for bus routing specialists who will field calls from parents wanting to know bus route numbers and stop times.

Nineteen people were arrested on charges of soliciting or patronizing prostitution over the weekend by the Jackson Police Department, according to a news release.

The following schools have scheduled open house for the 2009-2010 school year. Parents and students are welcome to attend these open houses and to meet the staff and principals of the schools.

Saturday's headlines in The Jackson Sun include the following stories: VETERAN FORECLOSURE: Tennessee Army National Guardsman Dexter Turner was driving his tractor-trailer through northern California on July 6 when a foreclosure auction was held on his Beech Bluff home.

The attorney who represents the local NAACP in Jackson-Madison County Schools' desegregation lawsuit said he plans to fight the School Board's motion for full unitary status - which would end the lawsuit - because most of the system's elementary schools have racially unbalanced student bodies.

Phillip Dee Scott of South Jackson birthed literary twins this year. "Tiger-Tiger Burning Bright" is his second nonfiction release, and "The Murder of the South Side Hawk" is the third Bemis-based mystery featuring fictional Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent Ban Kress.

Jimmy Wallace of Beech Bluff has been elected to chair the Tennessee State Election Commission.

We the members of the Pleasant Plains MB Church Male Chorus, first would like to apologize for any inconvenience we might have created on the changing of our Annual Male Chorus Anniversary.

PARIS - A teacher at Henry County High School has been arrested and charged with having sex with a 16-year-old student.

Jackson police have arrested a Mercer man they've been searching for following an April 16 home invasion and attack that injured an 82-year-old man, according to a news release.

Dog and cat owners have a chance this weekend to protect their pets from rabies at a reduced cost.

Twin sisters in West Tennessee have decided to run the Boston Marathon to raise money for charity and are seeking sponsors to back them, according to a news release.