Williamson County News

Cannon County School Board Chairman Randy Gannon said being a schools director is a lot like being a person spinning several plates on top of a pole at once.

Brentwood Middle School Assistant Principal Bill Harlin has been named principal of the school effective today.

COLUMBIA, Tenn. - More than half of the Williamson County students who attended Columbia State Community College in the fall of 2008 qualified to take at least one remedial or developmental class, school officials say.

A Shannon Glen resident faces cruelty to animals charges in court next week for the death of a Rottweiler found chained out of reach from food and water.

FRANKLIN - Williamson County commissioners will meet tonight to discuss a new state law that allows handgun carry permit holders to bring their weapons into public parks.

The Williamson County Sheriff's Office will be out in force Fourth of July weekend.

Residents on the northeast side of the county will get the chance to share input tonight about future land use for a comprehensive plan at the first of four open houses.

West Nashville residents Stephen and Michelle Sadler became Williamson County homeowners last night with the announcement of the St.

The federal trial for a former Middle Tennessee teacher accused of providing drugs and alcohol to teenagers and secretly videotaping them having sex in his Belle Meade-area home has been set for Aug.

More Tennesseans who never considered it before are turning to the federal food stamp program to feed their families, some of them in the state's wealthiest county.

The Junior Youth Actors' Guild is taking their show on the road! They'll be touring five Williamson County libraries presenting poems and skits such as "The Ugly Duckling," "Madeline," and "The Stinky Cheese Man," a modern retelling of the Gingerbread Man tale.

Williamson Christian College has signed an agreement with the Korean-American Education Committee of Greater Nashville to offer courses for Koreans in the area, with some courses taught in Korean and others in English.

HUNTINGDON - Chancellor Ron Harmon issued a partial ruling Wednesday evening, finding that a large percentage of the money in a Huntingdon Church of Christ fund established for the daughters of Mary Winkler belong to the three girls.

They count a lot of carbs in the Gould household in Williamson County, and they test a lot of blood.

Williamson Christian College has announced an agreement with the Korean-American Education Committee of Greater Nashville to offer courses for Koreans in Williamson County, with some courses taught in Korean and others in English.

Williamson County Sheriff's Office will conduct a series of sobriety checkpoints across the county beginning Friday night and ending Sunday morning.

MONDAY J.A. Yances Art Studio, Oils and Acrylics, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Mondays, June 22-29, Williamson County/Franklin Recreation Complex.

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.

FRANKLIN- Three Williamson County residents were recently elected to positions with the Columbia State Community College Foundation.

PEYTONSVILLE COMMUNITY - Emergency officials in Williamson County said a home on Penn Way Court, just south of Franklin, was set on fire by a lightning strike today.