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The Linden Community Choir—with members from First Baptist, First Christian, and First United Methodist churches—will present an Easter cantata on Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023, 6:00 p.m., at First Christian Church, West Main. Finger foods following. Everyone is invited. ————— Friends of Mousetail Landing State Park invite you the annual Easter Egg Hunt, this year…

MLEC customers will notice a reduction in electric bills starting April 1 when the rate will drop by 5.78%—or $9.23 for the average customers using 1,200 kilowatt hours per billing cycle. That means an average MLEC member paying $159.70 per month under the March rate will be billed $150.47 starting in April. How does that…

Tennessee needs at least $62.9 billion of public infrastructure improvements during the five-year period of July 2021 through June 2026, according to a new report released by the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (TACIR). Public infrastructure improvements for Perry County total $100.2 million, an increase of $4.7 million (5.0%) since last year’s report. The…

The end of seasonal holiday jobs in January can be counted as one of the contributing factors that led to higher county unemployment rates across Tennessee for the month. While statewide unemployment numbers are adjusted to consider the impacts of seasonal labor, county unemployment rates are not adjusted. Each of Tennessee’s 95 counties experienced an…

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart McWhorter, and NYX Linden LLC officials announced last Thursday, March 16, 2023, the company will expand its manufacturing operations, creating 137 new jobs in Linden. NYX Linden will invest $10.4 million in the expansion at its Squirrel Hollow Drive facility in Tier 4, distressed Perry…

SABRINA BATES MVP Regional News Editor A proposal to allow county government, public-meeting notices to be posted on county websites instead of newspapers is making its way through committees of the 113th Tennessee General Assembly. House Bill 449 (Senate Bill 550) is sponsored by Republican Rep. Elaine Davis of Knoxville. The legislation eliminates the requirement…

A man described by Sheriff Nick Weems as a “Texas drifter”—and who is wanted in the Lone Star State and New Mexico—has been charged with burglary, theft of property, and vandalism in the March 11 early-morning break-in at Duncan’s Ace Hardware in Linden. While Sheriff Weems did not go into detail about how Jeremiah Callahan,…

Following are remarks made at Friday’s Vikings Legacy Club dinner about the 2023 inductees, Angie Arnold, Chris Broadway, and Jackie Wilder. ANGIE ARNOLD “Angie Simmons Arnold had a prolific high school softball career in her four years of playing for the Lady Vikings from 1989 to 1992. “Before we talk about some of her individual…

Among most routine business at their most recent meeting, the Perry County Commission also approved $9,999 to begin making repairs to Veterans Park sports facilities. On behalf of Dixie Youth, Taylor Dill addressed the Commission about the worsening conditions at the park, saying he could not “in good faith” schedule tournaments at Veterans “when the…

The Tennessee’s Opioid Abatement Council is making the first payments totaling $31.4 million from opioid lawsuit settlements to counties. The state began processing the direct payments from the Opioid Abatement Trust Fund to county governments this week. Perry County is to receive $44,026.61 in this first round of allocations. In accordance with terms of the…