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NCTC donated labor and the use of two bucket trucks to install the mural.
Mural installed on Lafayette square
The Macon County Arts Council has just finished the installation of a 12-ft by 16-ft mural on Lafayette Square. The art project was funded by the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee through a private donation, and completed by local artist Linda Johnson. The mural, which has been hung on the side of Cathy’s Florist, depicts Union Camp Falls in ten paint colors. It was done in six pieces. Local teen volunteers donated at least 24 hour...
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UT offers Agricultural Enhancement Program
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture has set June 1-7 as the application period for the 2013 Tennessee Agricultural Enhancement Program. Applications are available at the Macon County Extension Office (113 e. Locust street, lafayette), USDA offices (hwy. 52 west) And Farm Bureau offices (hwy. 10 north). The programs available in 2013 are genetics, livestock equipment, hay storage, livestock feed storage, grain storage and producer divers...
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Annette Morgan works hard at keeping the website up to date and user friendly.
City of Lafayette introduces new website
The City of Lafayette recently rolled out a new city website, which features more information and services, in a cleaner and more user friendly format. This website, unlike the city page that is accessible from the Macon County website, is targeted more specifically to the city. Visitors to the site are able to view a separate page for each of the departments in the city, where they will find detailed department, employee, and contact infor...
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Man’s back broken when tractor pins him
A local man broke his back in three places when his tractor overturned on top of him, trapping him between tractor and plow on Tuesday. Donnie Morgan was plowing a field that he’d leased for tobacco off of Jack Porter Road when his front wheels, on a slightly higher grade, simply left the ground. “The wheels of the front end of the tractor were up on the pavement,” said his wife, Annette, Lafayette City Recorder. “He was looking back at t...
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Memory Lane
Down Memory Lane
April 17, 1975 37 Years Ago *The Macon County Court voted overwhelmingly in favor of renovating the old jail, at an estimated cost of $75,000. This was in favor of a proposed plan to build an enti...
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Down Memory Lane
March 25, 1993 19 Years Ago *Citizens Bank of Lafayette signed an agreement with Third National Bank of Nashville to purchase the assets and liabilities of the Third National Bank branch located in...
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Down Memory Lane
April 8, 1954 58 years ago *The North Central Telephone Cooperative, a new organization, switched over their Green Grove and Hillsdale telephone exchanges to dial service. With the completion of t...
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Down Memory Lane
June 11, 1968 44 Years Ago *In the wake of Martin Luther King’s assassination, columnist Charlie Gregory complains about the “overboard” mourning the country was engaged in. “You don’t see the flag...
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Down Memory Lane
A look back at things past
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Lafayette Elementary’s annual Field Day
Photos by Tilly Cryar
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Brown-Miller to exchange vows
Wayland Brown and Venus Mancera of Lebanon and Wayne and Teresa Miller of Lafayette are proud to announce the upcoming marriage of their children, Tanya and Alan. Tanya is the granddaughter of Robe...
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Birth: Daisy Daneal White
Phillip and Hollie White are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Daisy Daneal White. Daisy was born Feb. 13 at 8:49 p.m. at Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin. She weighed 7 pound...
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Rose at day 90 of his weight loss program.
Rose says education, mindset behind 250-pound weight loss
Eric Rose says he has been struggling with his weight his entire life. "I'd been trying to lose the weight since I was about 12, and I'd done it all really. I was almost 250-300 pounds in junior h...
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