The Murfreesboro Post, March 9, 2016 The MTSU Forrest Hall task force has set a final public meeting at which it will review written and oral feedback from community organizations regarding a possible name change to the university’s ROTC building. The meeting will be held from 5-7:30 p.m. Thursday, March…
Murfreesboro Post, March 3, 2016 A direct descendant of two Confederate great-grandfathers will reveal the contributions of the women of the Civil War in an upcoming lecture. Shirley Farris Jones, who retired from MTSU’s Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures after more than 30 years of service, will speak about…
Joel Ebert, The Tennessean, March 2, 2016 One day after the top two leaders in Congress rebuked Republican front-runner Donald Trump for his slow disavowal of a former Ku Klux Klan leader, the Tennessee state Senate approved a bill making it more difficult to remove statues or monuments named after controversial figures, sending the…
The Daily News Journal, February 27, 2016 MURFREESBORO — Tickets are on sale for the annual Willie McGowan Banquet, with this year’s event celebrating the 20th anniversary of the efforts to preserve Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center. With a theme of “Honoring the Legacy of Our Unsung Heroes,” this…
Local historians – if you failed to attend the first or second Forrest Hall forums, you missed an opportunity to uphold the belief that history isn’t black, history isn’t white – history is read. Wednesday night’s forum, the second forum of three, was held at Rutherford County’s Lane AgriCenter on John…
The Daily News Journal, February 9, 2016 MURFREESBORO — MTSU’s Forrest Hall task force will host an off-camp us open forum later this month to get more feedback about whether to change the name of the building that houses the university’s ROTC program, according to a news release from the…
Scott Broden, Daily News Journal, February 9, 2016 MURFREESBORO — The city government announced Monday it reached a $1.55 million agreement with Franklin Synergy Bank for the acquisition of 1.9 acres of property on the corner of East College and Church Street. The bank operates in the former First United…
Connie Esh, Murfreesboro Post, February 8, 2016 In a rare five-hour meeting Wednesday night that lasted past midnight, the Murfreesboro Planning Commission deferred action on a West Thompson Lane development opposed by about 20 of its neighbors who attended the meeting and spoke. However, protests by preservationists and others who…
Scott Broden, the Daily News Journal, January 25, 2016 MURFREESBORO — Neighbors continue to oppose 269 proposed apartments despite the developer promising to preserve a 207-year-old house as a residence for the property manager. “It doesn’t make me happy at all,” Tammie Cleek told the developers during a Thursday night meeting…
Greg Tucker, Murfreesboro Post, January 22, 2016 For Methodists, the Civil War did not end with the Confederate surrender in 1865. Several protestant denominations in the United States split into northern and southern factions in the decades before the war. At the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in…