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Tons of trash removed from the Duck
COLUMBIA - A record 155 volunteers helped to remove more than 10 tons of trash from the Duck River in an annual cleanup effort this month — but there’s more work to be done, a volunteer said.
Among the tons of trash picked up this year were a water heater, televisions, a grocery cart, a 55-gallon [...]
School construction shelved
COLUMBIA - Central High School students will have to wait longer for a project to rebuild the aging facility on Lion Parkway.
Bob Farmer, chairman of the Maury County Commission Building Committee, said the panel would not make a motion to forward a request for $2.5 million for design and site evaluation.
Read more at Columbia Daily [...]
When budget wants meet taxpayer needs
By: Glen Hasse
As the oil prices spiral out of control, $138.54/barrel for crude oil at Friday, June 6, close, effecting almost all other material prices and especially food prices; many of us wonder how we are going to survive.
We have already cut back our expenditures, probably to the “bare bones” just to buy food and [...]
War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
Too many generals with nothing to do but look forward to the next war can’t be good for Maury County.
Maybe we could convert this destructive force into something positive by having the historical society place a series of historical markers around the county to mark the numerous battlefields once littered with causalities and the lost [...]
Commissioners table spending cap measure
Maury County commissioners canned a resolution Monday night that would have put a spending cap on the county’s budget in an effort to thwart a property-tax increase.
The commission voted 13-9 to table the resolution, which would have required county officials to present budgets at the same or a smaller amount than their previous year’s spending [...]