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Mt. Juliet squires criticize fire pact

April 29, 2006 – The Mt. Juliet City Commission – a group until now has been all but absent from the fire service debate – expressed their frustration, disappointment and unhappiness with the Ad Hoc Fire Study Committee agreement reached earlier this week, describing it as "short-...

Councilors fired up for mayor's plan

May 1, 2006 – Lebanon city councilors gave an early show of support for Mayor Don Fox's plan to ask Wilson County officials for a similar fire service pact the county is poised to offer Mt. Juliet. Although each of the three city councilors reached Monday said it was too soon to comment on th...

Boycotting immigrants affect schools

May 2, 2006 – Despite minimal participation by local businesses, Lebanon schools took a measurable hit Monday as the nationwide immigrant boycott hit home and sparked higher than average absenteeism in central Wilson County. Lebanon Special School District officials reported 33 percent of His...

Schools director search narrows

April 22, 2006 – While the slate of candidates vying to be the next Wilson County schools director has shrunk by one, school board members are geared to begin the interview process next week, hoping to announce a decision in May. "We have a set of questions compiled by all board members we pl...

Borrowing sick time nixed

April 21, 2006 – Starting today, Lebanon city employees can no longer borrow sick time from other employees who have reserves built up, a personnel rules and regulations committee decided Thursday. The change is one of the first to take effect since a special personnel review committee establ...

Police arrest Mt. Juliet baseball coach on DUI

April 18, 2006 MT. JULIET – Mt. Juliet High School head baseball coach Mark Purvis was arrested Saturday on drunken driving charges while his passenger – and Mt. Juliet High assistant baseball coach – was arrested on public intoxication charged during a post-midnight back road sto...

Council spends $1M more on landfill

April 19, 2006 Lebanon city councilors begrudgingly forked over an additional $1 million to cleanup the Wilson County Landfill amid a city official's insistence on the necessity of the project. The $1 million is being added on to the $2.4 million already appropriated to the Landfill Remediation Pro...

Squire's daughter hired again

April 18, 2006 Squires again voted to hire the daughter of one of their own for a full-time judicial commissioner position Monday night – and again defied a near-unanimous recommendation from the County Commission's Judicial Committee. That committee recommended William Earl Coggins, who earn...

Elam, Dedman battling for top title

April 14, 2006 The race for county mayor may become a battle over fire service with Mt. Juliet Mayor Linda Elam challenging incumbent Robert Dedman. One-time Republican State Senate candidate Phillip Warren withdrew Thursday saying the "focus" of the race changed. Elam, a longtime proponent of coun...

Woman claims director 'volatile' - MJ public works leader placed on administrative leave

April 15, 2006 A Mt. Juliet city department head has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the results of an internal investigation into a harassment complaint filed Monday by a city employee, Mt. Juliet City Manager Rob Shearer confirmed Friday. Public Works Director Hatton Wright was p...