McKENZIE (January 31) — The first week of February blew in with a chill as Winter Storm Mara covered West Tennessee with ice and snow. more

McKENZIE (February 5) — Tate Surber, a junior at McKenzie High School, landed his 1,000th career point on Monday in a contest with Big Sandy. more

PARIS — Henry County Medical Center (HCMC) welcomes John Tucker as chief executive officer starting Monday, July 25, 2022. Tucker was officially hired in June at the monthly Board of Trustees meeting.   more

Paige Costello, a rising tenth grade homeschooler and member of Carroll County 4-H, is the national winner of the 4-H Beekeeping Essay contest. The contest is sponsored by the Foundation for the Preservation of Honeybees, Inc. more

Who said handwritten letters are a thing of the past? Well for one local boy, it is an art that pays forward 1000%. more

McKENZIE (February 5) — A symbolic groundbreaking ceremony was held Sunday, February 5 to mark the beginning of a new Habitat for Humanity home in Carroll County. more

PARIS (March 3) — Henry County Medical Center’s chief nursing officer, Michelle Seaton, BSN, RN, announced recently that Shelby McMillin, RN, has been named the interim director of Lake Haven Behavioral Center. more

James and Autumn Stephens of McKenzie announce the birth of their daughter, Myla Jane Stephens. The young lady was born September 5, 2023 at 6:59 p.m. at Baptist Memorial Hospital of Union City. She weighed 6 pounds and 9 ounces and was 20 inches long. more

McKENZIE (February 8) — Landon Priestley, an Eagle Scout candidate, received permission from the McKenzie City Council to use the City’s property for his scout project during the February meeting. more

Kameshia Moxley was new to the pageant scene when she was crowned Miss Bethel University Volunteer in November 2022. When she moved to Tennessee to attend college, walking on the Miss Tennessee Volunteer stage one day did not even cross her mind. more

DEARBORN, Mich. (February 7) — Local elected officials and other state economic leaders for the inaugural “West Tennessee Ford Fly-In” to Detroit/Dearborn. more

Addi Poole watched the Miss Tennessee pageants every year. She looked forward to the days when Miss Tennessee visited her school. Miss Tennessee was someone she could look up to and someone who made her feel seen. When Poole attended the Miss Tennessee pageant 2015 to support Paris native Hannah Robison, her entire perspective of the contest changed. Seeing someone from just across the road win the pageant proved she also had a chance to win one day and represent her community and state. more

HUNTINGDON (February 9) — State Representative Brock Martin (R-Huntingdon) was the featured speaker in the first of three Capitol Talk sponsored by the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce. more

Liberty Dyal, a freshman at McKenzie High School, is a delegate to the Congress of Future Medical Leaders scheduled June 21-23 on the University of Massachusetts Lowell campus, just outside Boston. The Congress is an honors-only program for high school students who want to become physicians or go into medical research fields. The purpose of this event is to honor, inspire, motivate and direct the top students in the country interested in these careers, to stay true to their dream and, after the event, to provide a path, plan and resources to help them reach their goal. more

Emma Martin is no stranger to the Miss Tennessee Volunteer stage, but the beauty queen said this year’s pageant might be her last. more

DaVita Huntingdon Dialysis, a multinational company, is hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, October 13, 3 p.m. for its new Huntingdon location, Carroll County Chamber of Commerce announced. more

MARTIN — Effective leaders look beyond their immediate surroundings to identify growth opportunities and ways to improve life for others. McKenzie resident Christy Williams, branch manager and vice president of Regions Bank, valued the class sessions, and the people she met established connections that will help turn ideas into action. more

HUNTINGDON (September 21) — Dr. Thomas Paul Evans is the new director of the emergency department of Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County. more

Six students from Carroll County attended the WestStar Leadership Program’s 2023 FutureStar Leadership Summit on Sept. 12 at the Boling University Center on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Martin. more

Come on down to Liquorland, McKenzie’s newest liquor store. The store is owned by Peter Patel, who also owns Paris Westwood Wines & Liquor, and is next to McKenzie’s BP gas station, at 15984 Highland Dr., McKenzie. more