Giles County News

A sobriety checkpoint will be conducted in Giles County by the Tennessee Highway Patrol Saturday, July 4, on Highway 31 South, according to the Tennessee Department of Safety Web site.

From the time Elkton Police Department Sgt. Mike Hatfield flipped on "the blues," until he was radioing 9-1-1 dispatchers for an ambulance is estimated - according to dash-cam video - to be approximately 20 seconds.

Four Pulaski residents, an Elkton man and another from Prospect are all facing drug charges, according to information posted on the Giles County Sheriffa s Department Web site.

Scott Stewart scott.stewart@pulaskicitizen.com Reports that a private ambulance service had sought to provide some services to Hillside Hospital prompted support for the Giles County Ambulance Service from some county commissioners at a meeting of the Ambulance Committee last week.

Telephone line tariffs to be paid to Giles County are likely to be at least $15,000 less than projected, Giles County E-911 Director Mike Goode said during the Emergency Communications Board meeting June 16.

Some residents living along Highway 166 North in Giles County are stuck with a sticky situation.

Two Pulaski residents, an Elkton man and a man from Prospect are all facing drug charges, according to information posted on the Giles County Sheriffa s Department Web site.

Recovery workers have pulled the body of a drowning victim from the mouth of the Elk River.

All of the changes we have gone through at the newspaper over the past few months have given us the opportunity to look at what we do, how we do it, how we can do more and how we can do it better.

PULASKI, Tenn.- A hazardous spill in Giles County on Highway 166-North left the road a sticky mess and caused a traffic tie up.

When Pulaski Alderman Charles Jenkins asked Pulaski Electric System CEO Ron Holcomb Tuesday how much the system had already spent implementing a Smart Grid system in Giles County, it was the first of several questions posed to Holcomb by members of the city council.

The National Weather Service reports that the North Fork station in Giles County has measured 2.30 inches of rain the past 24 hours -- and that the New River Valley airport in Pulaski has measured 2.01 inches.

Recognized by the Beef Industry logo on his Scott Farms barn and the presence of border collie Max, Steve Scott is now the Tennessee Cattlemen Association President for the 2009-10 term.

The newest part of a memorial to the Trail of Tears was unveiled on Monday in Giles County.

A $735,800 general fund city budget for 2009-10 unanimously passed the Ardmore, Tenn., Board of Mayor and Aldermen Thursday.

While the state and national unemployment rates continue to rise, Giles County and its surrounding neighbors experienced decreases in their April unemployment figures.

A decontamination unit led by the Giles Office of Emergency Management was needed during a recent arrest by the Pulaski Police Department.

A tip given to the United States Marshal Service led to a recent arrest in Giles County.

The amount of money that will be generated by the property tax rate in Giles County for the 2009-10 fiscal year may not be as much as previously projected.

Hundreds of recreational and avid cyclists are expected to be in Springfield Saturday, May 30, as they take part in the Middle Tennessee 2009 Tour de Cure in the fight against diabetes.