Dresden
Dresden votes for floating wetlands as their CDBG project
Story by Shannon Taylor Senior Investigative Reporter The Dresden board of mayor and alderman voted unanimously to go with the floating wetlands for the Community Development Block Grant Project (CDBG) and adopted Resolution 2023-07 which would authorize matching funds of 17% for the application for the CDBG for up to $400,000. During citizen input, Brandi…
Read MoreTentative budget and date revealed for municipal project
Story by Shannon Taylor Senior Investigative Reporter Members of A2H Construction and the Dresden board of mayor and alderman met Monday, Dec. 19 to go over the budget for the municipal complex project—a close to 7-million-dollar project—with a tentative start date of April 2023. The (tentative) budget was broken down in the design-development phase with…
Read MoreDresden man arrested in Gleason on drug charges
Story by Senior Investigative Reporter by Shannon Taylor On Sep. 27 at approximately 1:36 p.m., Investigator Kyle Watkins with the Gleason Police Department observed a white Nissan SUV traveling down Holland Street with the driver, 62-year-old James Stewart, not wearing a seatbelt. A traffic stop was conducted on the vehicle with it pulling up to…
Read MoreGateway Center and Weakley County Aging Office receive grants
story by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor The Gateway Center in Martin and The Weakley County Office on Aging in Dresden both received $8,000 grants this week from The Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability’s Executive Director James Dunn and Tennessee State Representative Tandy Darby. Dunn spoke on the grants stating, “the General Assembly decided…
Read MoreDresden provides updates on Municipal Complex
story by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor Updates were provided on the new municipal complex at the Nov. 7 board of mayor and alderman meeting. A2H provided an update on their scope of services which had to be amended to include additional redesign services. The proposal was based on a change in available property resulting…
Read MoreNewbern woman arrested in Dresden on multiple charges
Story by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor On Nov. 9 around 10:30 a.m., 24-year-old Lacy Belcher was brought into the Weakley County Detention Center on an arrest by Trooper Harrison from Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) on DUI charges. Belcher was pat searched upon arrival by Officer Jaggers and then a full body x-ray scan was…
Read MoreVoter fraud claims made by Washburn denied
Story by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor Dresden Mayor Jeff Washburn made claims via his personal Facebook account on Thursday, Nov. 3 that there were attempts to commit voter fraud in the Dresden city election. He claimed that the fraud was committed “by attempting to have persons not registered to vote by virtue of the…
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 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…
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