Maury County News

Members of the Maury County Fair board are, from left, front row, Bill Salrin, Joe Battersby, Kym Turner, Chairman John Kenley, Al Ray; back row, Ray Turner, Jerry Miller, Steve Konz, Mike Shane, Tim Hinds and Michelle Kenley.

The head of a local organization working against domestic violence in Maury County plans to build a new safe haven for area victims.

Goodwill Career Solutions will host two job fairs in two days. Hundreds of jobs are coming to Middle Tennessee.

The Tennessee Ethics Commission has decided against penalizing 28 planning commissioners around the state who filed financial disclosures late, while voting to levy fines of $10,000 each against three who failed to file any report at all.

The lawman had to take a breath several times while running down a partial list of stolen items recovered after the arrests of three members of a Maury County family for burglary and other charges.

Launita Green, front, and Sarah Lacy, left, and others go through the motions Monday at a cardio yoga class held at the Maury County Senior Center.

Two Spring Hill men today pleaded guilty in federal court for their involvement in a racially-motivated conspiracy to interfere with the housing rights of African-American residents of the Spring Lake subdivision in Spring Hill, the U.S. Justice Department announced today.

A $500,000 HOME grant from the Tennessee Housing and Development Agency is on the docket for a Maury County budget committee meeting Tuesday.

Faculty and students of Spring Hill Elementary, several members of the Spring Hill Kiwanis Club gather at the school Monday to leave a memorial stone at the base of a tree in honor of Joyce Dudley.

Staff photo by Susan W. Thurman Other system-level honorees announced at the Maury County Education Association's Awards Banquet are, from left, Distinguished New Teacher Chelsea Helmick, Distinguished Educational Support Professional Pearl Brown and Distinguished Administrator Tina Weatherford.

At 47, the Rev. Robert Henderson had finally forsaken all, being determined to die to all selfish elements.

Longtime Columbia State geography instructor Aubrey Flagg is recognized for his years of service at the community college Friday.

The chairwoman of the Maury County Regional Planning Commission said other members' discussion of whether or not she had a conflict of interest may have itself been a violation of state law.

For more than three hours, a line of county department heads made requests to the county administration committee for funding for the upcoming fiscal year.

A Maury County organization has raised more than $40,000 in food and funds for three local non-profits - a number that exceeded its original goal by about $15,000. The Leadership Maury class of 2013 held the "Feed the Need" food drive from April 8-May 3. Each year, Leadership Maury, a program sponsored by the Maury County Chamber and Economic ... (more)

The Maury County Building Committee Wednesday approved a $24 million criminal justice center proposal - a design that has been greatly reduced since the project was last considered.

Country music singers and songwriters Rory and Joey Feek of Pottsville were granted site plan approval Monday by Maury County's Regional Planning Commission for expansion of their recording studio.

A rash of car burglaries in several Columbia neighborhoods has been solved with the arrests of three men, while two other suspects are still sought, police said Wednesday.

Three months after Maury County officials instructed Sheriff Enoch George to budget for additional school resource officers in the upcoming year, some commissioners have cooled to the idea.

Seniors participate in an acrylic painting class Wednesday at the Maury County Senior Center.