LOCAL NEWS | Push is coming to shove between Metro Moore County and the contractors building the Silicon Ranch solar farm along Highway 55 — the council voted Monday night to put that in writing.
June 27, 2026
Author: Tabitha Evans Moore (Tabitha Evans Moore)
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Who is behind Moore County’s anonymous quarry campaign?
LOCAL NEWS | Postcards opposing the proposed re-opening of the Highway 50 quarry started arriving in local mailboxes over the past couple of days. The question is, who is behind them?
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Data centers and rock quarry on Monday’s Council agenda
PUBLIC MEETINGS COVERAGE | Monday’s meeting at the American Legion takes up two proposals that ask the same fundamental question: what kind of place do we want this to be?
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GET OUTSIDE: TN State Parks Spring Hikes happen this Saturday
THINGS TO DO | Tennessee State Parks guided hikes across the state — including right in our backyard — are free, beginner-friendly, and exactly what March ordered.
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Lynchburg Leadership Is Back. Is This Your Year?
LOCAL NEWS | A program designed to grow Moore County’s next generation of civic leaders is accepting applications — but not for long. Lynchburg Leadership will return to Moore County in March.
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Lodge Store hosts Dolly Parton-themed skillet painting class
THINGS TO DO | Paint a Skillet. Take home a story. The Lodge Cast Iron store on Mechanic Street is hosting a skillet painting class this Thursday — and Dolly Parton is involved. Of course she is.
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Bell Buckle’s Daffodil Day happens Saturday
THINGS DO TO | Six miles of daffodils. A beloved Middle Tennessee tradition that started with a schoolmaster, a janitor, and a lot of bulbs turns 48 this weekend. You should go.
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The Luckiest Woman on Barbecue Hill
FEATURES & INTERVIEWS | In honor of St. Patrick's day we discovered a local gal with an uncanny ability to spot four leaf clover. Jack Daniel's Events Coordinator Diane Potts has found thousands. She's not done yet.
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OPINION: Are we asking the wrong questions?
OPINION: This week, The Times Editor Tabitha Evans Moore weighs in on the unintended consequences of importing state-level partisan politics into a community that has always governed itself on simpler, more human terms.
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WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: Sarah Nelms
FEATURES & INTERVIEWS | Moore County’s Sarah Nelms comes from a long line of military men. Now a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army, she’s writing a new chapter of a family story that spans World War II to Afghanistan — and she’s just getting started.