REGIONAL NEWS — Duck River Electric Membership Corporation (DREMC) officials announced on Wednesday that they planned to cancel Saturday’s Annual Meeting in Shelbyville due to the rapidly increasing number of COVID cases in the area.

“The rising number of COVID-19 cases in the area has led us to the difficult decision to cancel the in-person meeting this year,” said Scott Spence, DREMC President and CEO. “We look forward to reconvening with the membership in 2022.”

DREMC officials had planned to present the projects completed over the past year and explain how those projects and improvements benefits the members and communities they serve. DREMC serves an area of approximately 2,500 square miles in Moore, Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, and Williamson counties in southern middle Tennessee.

Instead, the results of the Zone 5 director election, business reports and other important information will be made
available to the membership in the October edition of The Tennessee Magazine and in video format online at www.dremc.com. •

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