Tigrett News

Friday headlines in The Jackson Sun will include the following stories: WINK MARTINDALE: Jacque Hillman talks with Jackson native and television celebrity Wink Martindale, who will receive the Tigrett Award at the West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation charity gala this weekend.

Two public hearings will precede the Dyer County Commission meeting on Monday night.

A judge reduced the bond Tuesday for a Jackson man accused of severely beating and robbing a 66-year-old Jackson woman in June after he waived his case to the Madison County grand jury.

Many Jacksonians have moved here over the past few years and may wonder how this place and its people came to be.

Deputies are looking for a man who robbed Valero gas station, at 154 Tenn. 138 in west Madison County, about 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, according to a news release from the Sheriff's Office.

Tigrett Middle School was ranked ninth out of more than 500 Tennessee middle schools for student academic growth in math and science this past year.

In Dyer County Circuit Court on July 13-14: * Paul Elmer Barch, 51, 200 Joe Circle, pleaded guilty to selling morphine, a Schedule II controlled substance.

Charlotte Putnam Sweatt and her daughter, Charlotte Elkins , are proud to be the owners of the oldest Century Farm in Dyer County, which is 165 years old.

A group of men riding horses and a mule on a dark rural highway were involved in an automobile accident on Saturday, July 18, near Tigrett.

An agreement has been reached in the dismissal of Tigrett Middle School teacher Lawrence Stewart.