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School vandalism suggests gang link

August 20, 2005 Graffiti scrawled across a white board and class door at the scene of Wednesday's Mt. Juliet Middle School burglary and vandalism may be a term used in gang situations, police authorities said. More disturbing than smashed computers, holes punched in walls and total destruction of...

Candidates spar over city budget surplus

August 16, 2005 City mayoral candidates continued sparring Monday over the existence of a city budget surplus with both sides' claims further confused by city staff refusing to confirm numbers used by the campaigns. The mayoral campaigns of Ward 3 Councilor William Farmer and incumbent Mayor Don ...

Date set for India Clark fund-raiser

August 16, 2005 A Sept. 10 date has been selected for a fund-raiser on behalf of a one-time Lebanon High School cheerleader seriously wounded in an apparent random shooting. The event on behalf of India Clark, 15, will be 6 p.m. at Pickett-Rucker United Methodist Church, event organizers said. C...

Lebanon city taxpayers deserve answers

IN OUR OPINION August 16, 2005 City taxpayers deserve straight answers about their government's budget. Unfortunately, that may not happen during this already contentious election season. The 2004-05 budget year was a difficult one for Lebanon. Unexpected expenses totaling millions of dollars t...

Bryant courts Lott despite Frist slam

August 17, 2005 POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Former Congressman Ed Bryant is seeking to fill Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's soon-to-be open U.S. Senate seat. Perhaps that is why it is so ironic Bryant will be the beneficiary next month of an appearance by Frist's newly minted chief political nemesis i...

Family mourns loss of son

August 17, 2005 He played with toy soldiers as a child and as a man became a soldier himself, losing his heart to the children of war-torn Iraq long before losing his life for them. Those were among the emotional recollections of a Wilson County family told just two days earlier that one of their...

Frist explains reversal on stem-cells

August 18, 2005 COOKEVILLE — A middle ground must be struck between ethics and science when it comes to the use of embryonic stem cells for the treatment of chronic illnesses, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Wednesday. Frist, in the midst of a two-week tour across Tennessee, recently...

Beavers questions second term

August 19, 2005 For the second time in the past year, State Sen. Mae Beavers has publicly discussed not returning to the state legislature for another term. Beavers told Nashville talk radio show host Steve Gill live on the air Thursday morning she was not certain she would run for another term....

Lebanon soldier killed in Iraq

August 16, 2005 A 35-year-old father of two has become Wilson County's second casualty of the war in Iraq, one of three area National Guardsmen killed Sunday by what military officials called "hostile fire." Staff Sgt. Asbury F. Hawn II, 35, serving with Troop E, 2/278th Regimental Combat Team, w...

Lebanon council races hotly contested

August 1, 2005 In the recent past, Lebanon City Council races have been elections but not necessarily contests. This year, however, with previous officeholders and other well-known officials on the ballot, political observers and even the candidates themselves say 2005 may be more of a battle. M...
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