VISITING HONEST ABE — The local students selected to tour Washington, D.C., courtesy of an anonymous donor and the Union City Rotary Club, wasted no time upon their arrival in the nation’s capital on Tuesday. The group visited the Lincoln Memorial and several other famous monuments during an evening tour. The group includes students (front,…

RECEPTION SCHEDULED — The Union City Police Department will be saying good-bye to long-time employee Pam Wisdom of Union City Friday from 1-3 p.m. at the police station. After 45 years on the job as a police dispatcher and then records clerk, she has decided to retire.

WORLD TRAVELERS — Union City Rotary Club European travelers (from left) Caleb Parker, Olivia Dysart, Hudson Angel, Hadleigh-Lynn Cary, Davie Townes, Lillie Virden, Haley Thomas, Quintarius Udley, Amelia Kingrey and Alex Heathcock visited Brussels, Belgium, Monday. Among the sites they visited was The Atomium, a landmark building in Brussels, originally constructed for the 1958 Brussels…

WASHINGTON, D.C., BOUND — The Union City Rotary Club, courtesy of an anonymous donor, has sent 12 students and two chaperones from the three high schools in Obion County on an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., this week. The travelers include (front, from left) students Briley Coffey, Sarah Middlebrook, Leah Crews, Sophia McMinn, Treasury Willis,…

TRUSTEE HONORED — Obion County trustee Tracey Ivey Westbrooks (right) accepted the West Tennessee Trustee of the Year award from Tennessee County Trustees Association president Kristi Maxwell during the recent TCTA Convention. The award was voted on by her fellow trustees in West Tennessee.

LONDON LANDMARKS — Ten local students who were selected by the Union City Rotary Club for an all-expenses-paid trip to Europe have enjoyed taking in the sights and sounds of London this weekend and are on their way to Brussels, Belgium, today. Stopping to snap a group photo in front of St. James Cathedral were…