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Franklin County School Board Bemoans Vouchers Approval
by Leslie Lytle, Messenger Staff Writer
Discussion about the Teneessee Legislature’s approval of the Education Freedom Scholarship Act weighed Read more...
Monteagle Planning to Consider Retail in C-3
by Leslie Lytle, Messenger Staff Writer
Following a lengthy discussion about procedure at the Feb. 4 Monteagle Planning Commission meeting, the Read more...
Housing Sewanee is Accepting Resident Applications
Housing Sewanee (HSI) is accepting applications for a resident for the newest Housing Sewanee home at Sherwood Spring on Sherwood Road. HSI selects Read more...
Call for SCA Board Nominations
The Sewanee Civic Association invites nominations for the 2025-26 Board of Directors. Experience working in fundraising and for nonprofits is a Read more...
Christ Church Observes Building’s 100 Years
The congregation of Christ Church (Episcopal) in Tracy City will observe the 100th anniversary of its current building on Sunday, Feb. 16, said Beth Read more...
SUD: Election Results, Commissioner Training
by Leslie Lytle, Messenger Staff Writer
At the Jan. 28 meeting, the Sewanee Utility District Board of Commissioners tallied the votes for the Read more...
Monteagle: Wastewater and Water Rate Woes
by Leslie Lytle, Messenger Staff Writer
“When the lift station dies, nobody on the west side of the interstate has sewer. It will be backing up Read more...
Sewanee Community Council: Too Much Light?
by Leslie Lytle, Messenger Staff Writer
“There are lots of concerns about the new streetlights Duck River is installing,” insisted Laura Willis Read more...
David Landon’s Poetry: Winning the Gentle War
by Leslie Lytle, Messenger Staff Writer
David Landon’s poems are quotidian glimpses of shopping and tending to and losing and finding, but in Read more...
Christ Church Observes Building’s 100 Years
The congregation of Christ Church (Episcopal) in Tracy City will observe the 100th anniversary of its current building on Sunday, Feb. 16, according Read more...
Help the Old Gruetli Post Office Project
The Old Gruetli Post Office has been given to the Grundy County Swiss Historical Society. This structure at the corner of Highway 108 and 20 Avenue Read more...
Free Income Tax Prep Available to Franklin, Grundy, Coffee, and Moore Residents
Beginning on Feb. 3, the IRS-certified BetterFi and Sewanee Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program will begin processing and filing Read more...
Tradition Meets Innovation at Shenanigans
Winter on the Mountain is always a slower time for the local community, but residents and winter visitors alike have a great new reason to get out Read more...
Sewanee Herbarium Calendar of Events
“Invasives!” Show at Stirling’s, the campus coffee house, on display through mid-February. The show spotlights some of the worst invasive Read more...
TSP ‘Lone Rock Stockade’ Exhibit Unveiling
Tennessee State Parks (TSP) would like to invite you to the unveiling of South Cumberland State Park’s new exhibit, “Condemned to Labor: Convict Read more...