Area News
Hollow Rock man charged with assault in Gleason
Story by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor On Oct. 29 around 9:52 p.m., Patrolman Joseph Bates with Gleason Police Department was advised of an assault in progress on Holland Street in Gleason. When Bates arrived, the complainant and the victim stated that the complainant’s ex-boyfriend and father of her daughter, Justin Butler from Hollow Rock,…
Read MoreMissing woman found safe in Weakley County
Story by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and Metro Nashville Police Department put out a silver alert for Nancy Griffith on Nov. 1. The alert said that Griffith, an 89-year-old woman from Davidson County, suffered from Alzheimer’s and was last seen around 2:30 p.m. in the area of Highway…
Read MoreFights breaks out at basketball court, woman believes gang involvement
Story by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor On Oct. 1, Off. Thomas Travis received a call in reference to 20+ people fighting on the basketball court on West Park St. in Dresden. Upon his arrival he spoke with Julie Trullinger who stated that she was assaulted by a bunch of juveniles. After speaking with the…
Read MoreMartin schedules Veteran’s Day parade for Nov. 11
The 14th Annual Veterans Parade sponsored by Rolling Thunder TN VI and the City of Martin will be Friday, Nov. 11. Staging begins at 5 p.m. in the UTM parking lot on Lovelace Street in Martin with the parade to begin at 6 p.m. followed by a short program on the stage of the library.…
Read MoreMembers of the Northwest Tenn. 7 meet in Union City
Headed by siblings Victor Parkins and Scarlet Parkins Elliot, Gibson County Publishing now boasts the power of 7 news publications and three websites making it a regional news outlet. Comprised of the Mirror Exchange in Milan, The Gazette in Trenton, Tri City Reporter in Dyer, Lexington Progress in Lexington, The Chronicle in Humbolt, the Messenger…
Read MoreDresden BZA votes to allow home business to remain
Story by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor At the last Dresden city board meeting, Alderman Anderson spoke on an area where he lives that has been approved by the board of zoning appeals. He said that a business was planning to be operated in an R-1 District. “It’s a business being put in to run…
Read MoreRonald McDonald House gets boost from ADPi
Story by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor The University of Tennessee at Martin’s Alpha Delta Phi (ADPi) chapter has partnered with the Martin McDonalds to do a fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) chapter in Memphis. ADPi’s philanthropy states, “From the time of our founding, Alpha Delta Pi has believed in the importance…
Read MorePETA protests UTM Board of Trustees meeting over ‘pig mutilation’
Story by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor The University of Tennessee has not operated on live pigs since 2018 when Robert C. Fore, interim dean for the medical school at UT, said that the college would no longer use live pigs to teach surgical skills to students and instead use simulators of human bodies that…
Read MoreBe willing to ‘go on record’ so we can get the whole story
Letter to the Editor by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor It has come to my attention that many people don’t understand how the Press gets news or how that news gets published. Last week, I typed up an incident report of an arrest made in Weakley County. Shortly after it was published on the website,…
Read MorePress Reporter accepted into O∆K
Story by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor In her second year at Murray State University, Shannon Taylor was one accepted for membership into Omicron Delta Kappa, (O∆K) the National Leadership Honor Society. She is currently a graduate student in the MA-DA program of Literature/Pedagogy at Murray State University. She is in her second year of the…
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