Thompson's Station News

Seemed like it started rather slow and, I am told, ended rather slow. Taste of Thompson's Station evidently was not to be too big a success this year.

Even in a recession, people like to eat. So when the economy went south last year, taking his sales job with it, Robin Hooper became a butcher in the meat department at the Kroger Marketplace along Route 31 in Thompson's Station.

Heritage, Kenrose, Lipscomb, Nolensville and Scales elementary schools are hosting their first summer enrichment programs for children at the elementary and middle school levels.

Across Williamson County, pay for elected officials ranges from nothing to upward of $12,000 a year.

THOMPSON'S STATION - An Atlanta bank's closing means the town won't approve any future permits or plats at Tollgate Village, a 347-acre traditional neighborhood development on Highway 31.

FRANKLIN -- The Kroger store in the Williamson Square Shopping Center has become the third Kroger in the county with a Little Clinic.

Well, as I write this several days before the scheduled Taste of Thompson's Station, I listen to the weather and it looks like Saturday was a good day for this event.

Two women are accused of impaired driving and causing crashes. On Sunday, officers responded to the Goose Creek Bypass exit off Interstate 65 for a crash involving two cars.

SPRING HILL - This ain't your grandmother's poetry reading, notes a light-hearted warning for "Firecracker Red," a fundraiser Saturday for Rippavilla Plantation.

State lawmakers have put local officials on the hot seat with the recent passage of a law allowing guns to be carried in public parks.

The second annual Taste of Thompson's Station will be 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, weather permitting.

Visitors to John and Linda Colmore's home are forgiven if they mistake it for an old house; in fact, the Colmores take it as a compliment.

Warren F. Hannas recently sent me a note to apologize for not keeping me up to date.

A former Independence High School teacher and assistant football coach has been accused of asking a 17-year-old girl for sex.

THOMPSON'S STATION, Tenn. - A former teacher in Williamson County has been charged with solicitation of a minor.

The Farm at Natchez Trace received the award for outstanding business leadership and public service at The Nashville Humane Association's annual awards brunch recently.

THOMPSON'S STATION - Shawn South Aswad has an affection for things other people don't want anymore.

Each week I headline this column and write the date eight days in advance, it is a continual reminder just how fast our days are going by.

For a third time around, plans for Hood's Retreat may be up for a vote with the city Planning Commission.

THOMPSON'S STATION - Despite the tight budget, this small town between Franklin and Spring Hill will add two new faces to its staff this summer with federal economic stimulus money.