FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (April 20, 2021) Middle Tennessee Electric Amy Byers amy.byers@mtemc.com Rutherford County Government Ashley McDonald, PIO amcdonald@rutherfordcountytn.gov Apr 20, 2021 at 10:08 am by WGNS
Rutherford County, TN Murfreesboro’s 2021 Earth Day Celebration is going virtual this year, and the theme is #RestoreRutherford.
“This year marks the 20th anniversary of Murfreesboro’s Earth Day Celebration and Middle Tennessee Electric is proud to continue the tradition as primary sponsor and organizer of this annual event,” said MTE President/CEO Chris Jones.
The pre-recorded programming will air on Facebook at 12:00 p.m., Thurs., April 22 and on Rutherford County TV channel 19 (Comcast), Murfreesboro CityTV Channel 3 (Comcast), Roku, Apple TV and YouTube.
Rutherford County Mayor Bill Ketron must pay a $135,000 penalty for 474 campaign finance law violations that the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance found in a series of audits.
The Registry voted last Wednesday to assess the penalty, as well as drop $80,000 in previously announced fines for missing deadlines to file campaign finance reports.
Three audits of Ketronâs campaign accounts for state senator, county mayor and Quest Political Action Committee were conducted last year at the request of Rutherford County Commissioner Robert Stevens.
The civil penalty total was calculated by assessing a $45,000 penalty against each of the three campaign accounts.
The county mayoral account civil penalty will have to be paid before Ketron runs for re-election next February. Ketron said he doesnât plan to return to the state senate.
Old Judicial Building will include armed security officers and metal detectors
County Property Assessor Rob Mitchell has proposed selling Judicial Building for a boutique hotel
Neighbor says probation services should move closer to MPD headquarters on Highland
Public Square parking will be worse when Rutherford County s probation services return to the old Judicial Building, a neighbor contends. My concern is the traffic, said Larry Sims, who owns two nearby buildings in Murfreesboro, including his real estate brokerage and auctioneer office. We don t have the room for them. We don’t have the parking for them.
The county s probation department has a staff of 21 serving recent counts of around 800 people on probation. It will relocate during the late spring or early summer from a leased West Main Street office to the former Judicial Building on the north side of the Square, spokesperson Ashley McDonald said.
Courtesy of City of La Vergne
LA VERGNE The La Vergne Board of Mayor and Aldermen appointed Magen Honeycutt as alderman on April 6.
Alderman Honeycutt will replace former Vice Mayor Melisa Brown, who resigned in March after moving to Murfreesboro. Honeycutt will serve out the remainder of Brown s term, which ends in November 2022.
In her letter of intent, Alderman Honeycutt stated she promises to “serve with honesty, integrity, and humility. I will complement this board well, so that work can resume for this great community,” the letter said.
Honeycutt is currently a route supervisor for FedEx Ground and first moved to La Vergne in 2010, leaving and returning in 2019. She has volunteered with the Rescue Squad, Box 100 and the La Vergne Fire Rescue Department.
Two board members want to end the policy and make masks optional
60% of surveyed district employees want to keep mask requirement
COVIV-19 active cases have decreased since late December
Five of the seven Rutherford County Board of Education members back keeping the mask requirement policy through the end of the school year.
The seven board members responded to same question from The Daily News Journal about the mask issue, and their answers are provided below.
A unanimous board in July established the mask policy as part of the reopening of schools plan after students had been out since March 2020 because of the pandemic.