Freetown News

Two arrests have been made in connection with recent burglaries in the area, including one at Brownstown Elementary School last week.

It was a double dose of Santa Claus for 7-year-old Bridget Scroghan and her sister, Charley Boesken, 6, during the Brownstown Hometown Christmas event Friday evening.

Jackson County Plan Commission recently filed a lawsuit against a Freetown man accused of operating a junkyard on property zoned for residential usage.

Today's kids may know more than their parents and others credit them with knowing, but that doesn't mean those same kids can't learn more.

Musician Don Pedigo's music video "Mama's Wedding Gown" has advanced into the Sweet 16 of CMT's Music City Madness music video contest.

Jackson County Christian Men's Fellowship will convene at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Freetown Church of Christ.

Fifth-grade students from Brownstown, Freetown, Lutheran Central and Medora will graduate from the 10-week Drug Abuse Resistance Education program at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the auditorium at Brownstown Central High School.

Musician Don Pedigo's music video for "Mama's Wedding Gown" is now one of 32 finalists in CMT's Music City Madness music video contest.

A Freetown man was arrested Thursday night after a car chase with Jackson County Sheriff's Department officers.

Jackson County Health Department will start offering the H1N1 flu vaccine to generally healthy people ages 4 to 24 years old next week.

A 42-year-old Seymour woman whose 2003 murder conviction was set aside in 2007 will have to spend another year and a half in jail on an unrelated drug conviction.

"The region needs to do a better job of educating their students on the benefits of Apponequet Regional High School.

It took voters 90 minutes to cruise through a 16-article warrant at Monday's special Town Meeting, during which they voted to pay $275,860 to send more students than expected to Old Colony Regional Vocational-Technical High School and to establish a revolving account for an MCAS tutoring program at the elementary school.

GMAC Mortgage LLC, to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 500 W. Howard St., Crothersville, Lot one and the east half of lot two in United States Shoe Corporation Subdivision to the Town of Crothersville, $17,626, May 14.

Articles that will pave the way for repair of the Elm Street Bridge, establish an elementary school tutoring program and help support needy veterans and their families will be discussed at the special Town Meeting Monday.

Half a world away from her Freetown home, Tarsha Veiga has found a powerful calling, working among the people of Lesotho as a Peace Corps volunteer.

Rebecca Scott of Freetown took folks attending Thursday's Leadership Jackson County Distinguished Speaker Series on a trip down the Yellow Brick Road.

A Jackson County woman will be the guest speaker at the next presentation of the Leadership Jackson County Distinguished Speakers Series, set from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct.

Actually the Shelbyville Eagle riders which is the largest chapter in the United States and Canada are ready to hit the road for their inaugural Gibault Run.

Freetown officials plan to name the gym at the town's elementary school after a local sailor who died in Iraq.