A memorial fund has been set up at Citizens Tri-County Bank in Tracy City to honor the memory of Ronald K. Fults, former minister, principal, teacher, coach, and Superintendent of Schools. It was his desire that at his death a fund would be set up to benefit children...

The following cases were heard in Grundy County Circuit Court.

Phillip B. Price – pled guilty to statutory rape, a Class E Felony and received 11 months 29 days probation and 100 hours of unpaid community service.

Grundy County native and Manchester resident Ronald Keith Fults passed away at St. Thomas Hospital on Sunday, June 14. Fults was 71, just five days short of his 72nd birthday. Fults was a minister for 27 years and most recently served as an adult Bible teacher...

Last week’s issue of the Grundy County Herald dated June 11 published a required legal notice in order for Palmer to receive grant and loan monies to purchase a newer fire truck.

This notice has caused much...

Qualifying to run for a full term Commission seat in Beersheba Springs is Donald Boyd. John Bohr qualified for the two year unexpired term that was made vacant two year ago when no one qualified to see the office during the regular election. Soon after the election...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the selection of more than $60 million in essential community facilities and emergency responder projects that are being funded immediately with federal funds provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act....

The Grundy County Lions Club hosted a new membership drive at the Coalmont Community Center on April 28. Attendees were served a wonderful barbeque dinner and enjoyed talks given by President Mike Birdwell, Tim Winton and Zachary Winton. President Birdwell discussed...

Dye tests used to track a sewage spill show wastewater running into nearby streams in the Monteagle area. The tests show that the wastewater is still in Juanita Creek and nearby Gilliam Creek.

According to Tisha...

Thomas Conry, 38, a local lifetime resident of Tracy City, and son of Berthia Lowe Conry Freeman and the late Donald Conry, was one of 20 U.S. merchant marines carrying grain and medical supplies to Mombasa, Kenya, on the ship the Liberty Sun, when pirates, incensed...

Tennessee Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development James Neeley announced that Tennessee’s unemployment rate for May was 10.7 percent, up 0.8 percentage point from the revised April rate of 9.9 percent. The May rate a year ago was 6.2 percent. The national...

The idea of living in a more efficient home and paying lower utility bills has widespread appeal. But finding ways to fund improvements can be difficult during hard economic times.

Fortunately, the federal...

A group of Hillsboro residents that has been fighting the opening of a quarry for the past several years appears poised for another round.

Over the last few weeks, work has been at a fever pitch on Crisp Field at GCHS. A complete renovation of the playing surface has been underway to get the field ready for the 2009 season as it was in serious need of an overhaul.

In men’s league this past week in "Softball City" Beersheba Springs Lusk Motorsport downed Pearls Of Christ 21-11. Jim Bob Rymer has been on fire lately with 4 for 4 long ball home runs. Teammate Michael Seagroves also had 4 hits with 2 homers to lead Lusk....

Monteagle’s Gene and Dakota Cantrell made a strong showing at their first national bass fishing championship last week in Rogersville, Alabama, in the National Bass Fishing Trail’s national tourney. Dakota finished fourth in the junior division and Gene finished 10th among...

The mandatory summer dead period for all TSSAA sports begins this Sunday June 21 and runs through July 4. During this time there is to be no activity in high school sports. Coaches and players cannot hold workouts and all school facilities are to be closed.

A number of folks lined the courthouse steps in Winchester last Friday morning in anticipation to see who would be the next owner of Winchester Speedway.

The Speedway, under the ownership of Darrel and Joan...

Summer Sports Stories – Summer time sees limited stories come in to the Grundy County Herald for the sports pages. If you have a feature story or something that needs to be on the sports page send it in to gcherald@lcs.net. Sports deadlines are 4:30 p.m. each...

For the first time in 16 years and possibly only the second time in GCHS history, a male Yellow Jacket basketball player has signed a college basketball scholarship. Justin Hampton signed recently with Lambuth University in Jackson, Tennessee. This is the first...

The Gruetli-Laager Rattlesnakes won the Dizzy Classic recently by downing the Dunlap Bandits by a 14-13 score. Leading the way for the Snakes were Tyler Sanders, Jordan Dishroon and Hunter Christian who hit 2 singles and a double each. Tyler Jackson hit a single...

The Lady Jackets fell one game short of their goals this year as they lost 4-0 to the eventual tournament champions Chattanooga Christian.

"My goal was to make the region and we fell a game short of that. The...

The Lady Jackets have seen their district tournament shortened by the rains just like baseball moving the event to single elimination. Grundy played with a purpose Monday night in Chattanooga defeating Bledsoe County 5-0 to move to the semifinals on Tuesday. A...

The Lady Yellow Jackets have now won 12 of their last 13 outings and have shown they are ready to make a serious run in the upcoming District 6 AA tourney. "There’s not a team in this district that we can’t beat. We could win the district this year. I tell my...

The Junior Jacket (9-0 district/12-0 overall) baseball team picked up 2 wins over the last week. The Jackets traveled to Marion County for a non-district day game in front of their student body winning 11-7. The Jackets then picked up their ninth win in district...

The best time for any team to get hot is heading into tournament time and that’s exactly what the Lady Jackets are doing with just one more week before the district tournament. Grundy is red hot and has won eight straight to move to 19-6 on the season and 2-1...