PUBLIC MEETINGS | Moore County’s Planning Commission voted 3-1 Tuesday to deny a proposed 42-unit townhome development on Main Street. The dispute comes down to two pages of the zoning ordinance — and two very different ways of reading them. Gateway Development says it will appeal.
LOCAL NEWS | People are over the digital and craving real, analog experiences like Lynchburg’s annual Frontier Days Festival. The Chamber is currently seeking vendors for the 2026 event.
REGIONAL NEWS | A federal judge has refused to end the Uncle Nearest receivership, finding the company insolvent and its founder not credible. In a 62-page ruling issued Tuesday, Judge Charles E. Atchley, Jr. wrote that Fawn Weaver’s testimony “has been guided by the story she believes best serves her personal interests, irrespective of its relation to the truth.”
SMALL BIZ PROFILE | For our latest small business profile, we interviewed Chase Lawson of Tims Ford Recovery Divers. They transformed volunteer rescue diving into a side hustle that turns lake life whoopsies into happy endings.
PUBLIC MEETINGS | The Moore County General Budget failed its first reading Monday night, falling one vote short of the required two-thirds majority. Four absent council members made the difference.
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PUBLIC MEETINGS | A consultant’s five-day review found a gap of up to 300,000 gallons a day that nobody can currently explain — and the answer affects every development decision in Moore County.
PUBLIC MEETINGS | The MUD Board will meet on Tuesday afternoon at 6 p.m. One item, water line damage by fiber crews working in the area, will likely be a hot topic.
LOCAL OBITUARIES | A beloved Lynchburg Elementary teacher has died. Her funeral will happen on Thursday with visitation happening Wednesday at J.A. Welton & Son Funeral Home in Tullahoma and Thursday at the Berry Chapel AME Church in Lynchburg.
LOCAL NEWS | A free tax service sponsored by the United Way of South Central Tennessee saved folks in Moore and Coffee counties thousands of dollars and you can volunteer to help next year.
REGIONAL NEWS | Two days after Fawn Weaver appealed a federal judge’s ruling to keep her company in receivership, the receiver signed a letter of intent to sell Uncle Nearest’s assets — and the clock is now running toward a formal purchase agreement.
REGIONAL NEWS | On Wednesday, Fawn and Keith Weaver filed a notice of appeal, asking the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a federal judge’s ruling that found the company insolvent and its founder not credible.
LOCAL OBITUARY | Joyce Davenport Bobo, a beloved former Lynchburg resident, passed away on Tuesday in Tullahoma. The funeral and visitation will take place on Saturday in Lynchburg.
THINGS TO DO | Save the date of Saturday, June 27 when up-and-coming Nashville country music star Cody Cozz plays a free show at Frontier Days.
LOCAL NEWS | During National EMS Week, a Huntsville retired Major General appeared before the Metro Council on Monday to credit local crews with helping to save his life during the Oak Barrel Half Marathon.
PUBLIC MEETINGS | MUD says it knows where 3.3 million of it 11.1 million gallons of water loss is and finding leaks everyday but to the state comptroller and local planning commission it may not matter.