Wilson County

Tennessee Funding Board Approves $10.3M In Incentives To 7 Projects

Image: Tennessee Comptroller Jason Mumpower, second from left, talks during the Funding Board meeting on Monday, March 25, 2024. Image Credit: Tennessee Funding Board The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – The Tennessee State Funding Board approved $10.3 million in incentives for seven companies at its Monday afternoon meeting. The largest was $3.4 million to […]

Bridgestone Foods Gets $1.3M Incentive Grant For Lebanon Facility

Image Credit: Bridgetown Natural Foods  / Facebook The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Bridgetown Natural Foods is receiving $1.3 million through incentives for its $78.3 million manufacturing and distribution facility in Tennessee. The project in Lebanon is being awarded a FastTrack Job Training Assistance Grant that was not disclosed Wednesday and was first listed […]

House Bill 2936 Secures Parental Rights In Tennessee (Op-Ed)

Image Credit: Canva submitted by Karen England [President of Capitol Resources Institute and Take Back the Classroom] – Children belong first and foremost to their parents. When God blesses the world with a new child, he does it through the actions of a mother and a father—parents—who then have the responsibility to raise and train […]

Former Lebanon High School Teacher Convicted Of Statutory Rape

Image Credit: Wilson County Sheriff’s Office & Google Earth The Tennessee Conservative [By Rebecca Scott] – A former Lebanon High School teacher has finally been sentenced for crimes committed in 2015 and 2016. Michael R. Hargis was charged in 2021 and pleaded guilty in July of 2023 on charges of statutory rape by an authority […]