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MAURY COUNTY - They determine where your children go to school and how they dress. They hire the person in charge of shaping Maury County’s educational priorities. And they are responsible for managing a multimillion-dollar budget that dwarfs the spending plans of most private businesses in the county.
But in recent elections, there has been a [...]

A candidate running for school board would not be able to serve if elected because he has moved out of state, Maury County’s administrator of elections said Thursday.
Dwayne Eugene Kelley, who is running for the District 6s chool board seat, moved to Michigan, according to a mail forwarding label and a woman who answered his [...]

Tennessee law effectively bars Maury County schools from holding class only four days a week to save money on fuel, a state spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Rachel Woods with the Tennessee Department of Education said state law requires students to attend class for 180 days.
Read more at Columbia Daily Herald Online

A three-year contract between the school board and an engineering firm will not be extended after some board members said there was a conflict of interest between the company and the board’s chairman.
At the board’s full meeting Tuesday, members discussed extending their contract with Brentwood-based design firm SSOE. But when it came to a vote, [...]

Opinion Article Author: Glenn Hasse
Publisher: Columbia Daily Herald
It will always be best for Maury County when all the options, facts, and figures are considered prior to spending significant quantities of the taxpayer money. It is absolutely mandatory to do this when funding reaches the astronomical levels required to build the new middle school in [...]

I have been working on this website for a few weeks now, and when you are so engrossed in something, you kinda only think about it. This site is dedicated to the betterment of Maury County through thoughts, actions and purpose. Right now the people involved are Ross Jaynes (CPWS Channel 13), Ty [...]

Hello to all of you.
My name is Tommy Dudley and I am the School Board representative for the 11th district of Maury County. The 11th district consist of a very large area which covers the northern parts of the county from Carters Creek Pike around to Bear Creek Pike on its eastern end. Spring Hill [...]