Fayetteville Public Utilities is moving forward with plans to purchase gas customers in the Ardmore area currently being served by Athens Gas Department out of Alabama. FPU officials were approached earlier this year by Athens Gas representatives asking if the utility is interested in serving 164 customers on the Tennessee side of Ardmore. The area includes 18.22 miles of line and a commercial customer, Wolverine Tube. FPU then contracted with
LUCY WILLIAMS, editor and publisher Gregory Scott Collins, city administrator of the City of Newport in East Tennessee from 2008 until this past March when he was dismissed in a 3-2 vote, has been hired as Fayetteville’s new city administrator. Mayor John Ed Underwood confirmed Thursday that Collins had accepted the city’s offer. While he will be in Fayetteville this week to visit, he won’t officially start in the position
Law enforcement officers from multiple agencies conducted a roundup Monday morning in conjunction with the 12 federal search warrants served here several weeks ago. Ten arrests were made in Lincoln County and two in Madison County, Ala., Monday. These are in addition to the two arrests made the day the operation started in May. All charges thus far are federal charges ranging from conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, 280 grams
Mitchell Aman has recently joined the Lincoln County Soil Conservation District as the new Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) district conservationist. “Mitchell comes to us from Wilson Soil Conservation District and Smith Soil Conservation District, where he served as a soil conservationist,” said Randy Whitehead, chairman of the Lincoln County Soil Conservation District. “The district is very happy to have Mitchell as part of the staff and look forward to
Randall Griner, gas operations superintendent for Fayetteville Public Utilities, was recently installed as one of 22 members on the 2013-2014 Tennessee Gas Association Board of Directors. Tennessee Gas Association celebrates its 51st year with members comprised of municipal gas systems, utility districts, private and public gas companies, pipelines, marketers, affiliated members and housing authorities. TGA member organizations represent approximately 10,000 employees serving the natural gas industry in the state of
David Hunt, developer of the new Hampton Inn in Fayetteville, and Donna Hickerson, general manager, join community leaders and friends for the ribbon cutting of the hotel at 110 Redstone Drive. Among those pictured are Tommy Holland, a member of the Fayetteville Board of Education; Carolyn Denton, executive director of the Fayetteville/Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce; Veronica King, vice chair of the Lincoln County Board of Education; Betty Creson, Chamber
Lately, immigration has been a main focus in Washington, D.C. A group of Republican and Democratic Senators, known as the Gang of 8, have taken it upon themselves to develop a comprehensive immigration package to address the 11 million illegal immigrants living in our country. Unfortunately, I cannot support their proposal in its current form and would vote against it if it were to make its way to the House.
LAMAR ALEXANDER, u.s. senator Over the last decade, the U.S. Department of Education has become so congested with federal mandates that it has become, in effect, a national school board. This past week I proposed with my Senate Republican colleagues a plan that would restore responsibility for education to states, and give more freedom to parents and teachers. The congestion of mandates we’re trying to undo is caused by three
LAMAR ALEXANDER, Senator Students from Tennessee and all over the country are graduating from high school about this time, and roughly 70 percent of them will go to college next year. Taxpayers will help many of them afford a college education through taxpayer-subsidized student loans – the cost of which for students will go up on July 1 if Congress doesn’t act. I cosponsored a proposal with my Republican colleagues
Fayetteville Public Utilities is moving forward with plans to purchase gas customers
LUCY WILLIAMS, editor and publisher Gregory Scott Collins, city administrator of the
Fayetteville Public Utilities is moving forward with plans to purchase gas customers
LUCY WILLIAMS, editor and publisher Gregory Scott Collins, city administrator of the
When the water settled, the last boat was hitched and all the
Tennessee Valley Polocrosse Club (TVPC) competed in the Carolina Classic Polocrosse Tournament
New members of the Fayetteville-Lincoln County Humane Society Board of Directors for
Frank Davis of Fayetteville won $1 million in Caesars Entertainment’s Harrah’s Tunica,