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REMEMBERING — It was an historic night in Samburg with the first meeting of the mayor and board of aldermen in the city’s new City Hall complex Monday. The more than half-million dollar complex was built after Samburg’s previous City Hall building was destroyed in a December 2021 tornado that swept through the city. Prior…

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE — Matt Fennel (from left) with Tennessee Farm Bureau chatted with state Sen. John Stevens and state Rep. Chris Hurt prior to the start of the Northwest Tennessee Legislative Breakfast held Friday at Discovery Park of America. Stevens and Hurt were joined on the panel by Reps. Tandy Darby and Brock Martin. They…

CELEBRATING SERVICE — Samburg Tourism chairman Ed Mayberry (right) spoke with Reelfoot Lake State Park interpretive ranger Madlyn Cox of Tiptonville during a bald eagle presentation at the Samburg Memorial Day event Saturday evening at Spicer Park. Col. Carl Mills reviewed the Declaration of Independence for the annual program. Veterans in attendance, many of whom…

IN REMEMBRANCE — Mac Everett Buchanan, son of Garrett and Rebecca Buchanan of Troy, recently placed an American flag on the grave of his fifth great-grandfather, John W.C. Harmon, for Memorial Day. Harmon served in the Confederate Army as a private in the 47th Infantry and is buried at Campground Cemetery in Obion County.

REMEMBERING LOVED ONES — Joi Davis (from left) of Hornbeak held tight to a balloon as it fluttered in the wind Monday at Veterans Park in Union City during a Balloon Release Memorial Service hosted by Baptist Hospice in Union City. She was trying to read the inscription on it, which stated, “You are loved,…

GOVERNOR VISITS — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (left) was greeted Friday morning by Obion County Central High School FFA member Brady Dunn during the governor’s stop in Union City on his America 250th tour, celebrating what is great about America and Tennessee. Other FFA members who met the governor were Addison Staggs (second from left)…

REVENGE WIN — Excel team members Austin Davis (in front of blue boat) of Dresden and Chris Posey (in back of blue boat) of Union City raised their paddles in victory after they, along with Emma Kate Adams of Martin, defeated The Whaley II Union City Fire Department team of Reed Logan (in front of…

IT’S BACK — The Unknown Confederate Soldier Cemetery, located on Summer Street in Union City, is finally back on the official Civil War Trails. Otho French Stahl, Camp 176, Union City camp adjutant Barry Sowell praised the occurrence recently when Chris Brown (second from right) and Ashley Bassetti (right), representatives from the Civil War Trails…

WALKING TOUR — Main Street Union City executive director Katie Graves (right) recently installed the first Downtown Historic Walking Tour cling while board president Lolly Bearden made sure it looked good from the outside. The window clings are part of the Downtown Improvement Grant from the State of Tennessee.

HAVING A BALL — Union City Elementary School kindergartner Helena Ballance smiled up at Abby Suiter, a special education educational assistant at UCES as well as a volleyball coach in the UC system, after making her toss in the softball throw event Friday morning during the Area 7 Special Olympics spring games at War Memorial…