LOCAL NEWS — On September 22, 1969, after almost five years of planning and work, Motlow State Community College opened its doors to 551 students on 187 acres in Moore County. The Motlow family of Lynchburg donated the land. Because of this generous gift and State Senator Reagor Motlow’s contributions to education in Tennessee, Governor...
LOCAL NEWS — Lynchburg has become a mecca of sorts for bikers. Each weekend, hundreds of them roll into Moore County to tour the Distillery and shop the Square. In several weeks, hundreds of cyclists will also head into our county for the annual Bike to Jack and Back charity ride. Like any good host,...
If you drive down Second Avenue North in Birmingham, you’ll see a long-faded sign painted on the side of a brick wall that says, “Headquarters for Motlow Corn and Jack Daniells’ No.7 Lincoln County Whiskies.” {Editor’s Note: The misspelling is theirs not ours.} It’s a little known fact that Birmingham served as the official home...
LOCAL NEWS — One of the interesting things about Metro Moore County beer laws was it’s insistence that a store or restaurant selling beer not be within 2,000 feet from a school or church and 300 feet from a residence. It’s a requirement that has traditionally kept many of the businesses around the historic Lynchburg...
LOCAL NEWS — Well Lynchburg, you can now have a frosty cold beer with that slice of wood fired pizza. On Tuesday, the Metro Moore Beer Board approved the application for off-site and on-site beer consumption for the Stave and Stone Pizzeria and Baking Company located at the Lynchburg Cigar Company. The business is located...
LOCAL NEWS — If you get your monthly prescriptions filled at the Lynchburg Drug Store, you might want a back up plan for the next couple of weeks. According to both their social media pages and signs on their front door, they will be closed the next two to three weeks. The reason? The longtime...
SPORTS — As the season kicks off, sports writers at the Tennessean have decided to rank all the Nashville area high school football teams from 1-129 placing the Moore County Raiders in the #94 spot over all and #7 among Class 1A competitors. The list (which groups all TSSAA Division I and Division II teams...
ARTS & CULTURE (Tullahoma) — From pottery to watercolor to jewelry making and photography, Moore County is filled with talented artists. If any of you would like to sell your art … especially for the upcoming holiday season … the gallery gift shop at the Tullahoma Art Center (TAC) is looking for you. Artists are...
STATE NEWS — Applications for the TN Promise scholarship, which provides two years of tuition-free attendance at a community or technical college, opened on August 1. All high school seniors interested in the scholarship must register online before November 1 to be qualified. Tennessee Promise is both a scholarship and mentoring program focused on increasing...
LOCAL NEWS — According to the state Education Department’s 2019 TNReady assessment results, that came out on Thursday, Moore County earned the title of the state’s most improved district in 8th grade English Language Arts (ELA) with a 12.9 percent score increase over 2018. Overall, standardized assessments showed that more than half of Tennessee’s public...