HUNTINGDON (April 13) — Non-certified staff members may now serve as head coaches and leaders of extracurricular activities at Huntingdon Special School District. The Board of Education approved the change, which previously stated only certified staff members could serve as the leader of student activities. more

McKENZIE (April 15) — Bethel University plans to return to near-normal operations for the fall 2021 semester following the 2020-21 academic year dealing with a global pandemic. more

Congratulations to Mrs. Courtney Kee’s fourth grade class at McKenzie Elementary School for earning 1,000 Accelerated Reader points. more

Congratulations to Mrs. Tiffany Smith’s fourth grade class at McKenzie Elementary School for earning 1,000 Accelerated Reader points. more

Congratulations to Mrs. Megan Taylor’s second grade class at McKenzie Elementary School for earning 1,000 Accelerated Reader points. more

McKENZIE (April 18) — McKenzie High School’s basketball players, cheerleaders, coaches, and parents celebrated an unprecedented year of basketball during a Sunday afternoon banquet at McKenzie High School. A global COVID-19 pandemic’s effects weighed heavily on the season with quarantines, limited audience size, and even games without cheerleaders. However, the Rebels and Lady Rebels persevered playing the scheduled dates, even some nights of play with the girls playing one opponent and the boys playing a different opponent. more

Twenty-three of Carroll County’s brightest youth gathered for the 2021 Carroll County 4-H Public Speaking Contest. more

McKENZIE (April 13) - McKenzie Middle School hosted its annual honors program on April 13 at McKenzie High School. Top academic students were honored for their achievements. more

The West Carroll Special School District voted unanimously to approve Preston Caldwell’s contract as the new director of schools at Tuesday night’s school board meeting, April 6. The board also unanimously approved $36,357 to be distributed to school cafeteria staff in the form of a one time bonus. All school board meetings are open to the public. more

McKENZIE — The 2020-21 school year at McKenzie Special School District included daily temperature checks of students and the mandatory wearing of masks. In the April 6 meeting of the Board of Education, members voted to eliminate the daily temperature checks for the remainder of the school year. more

Haley Brasfield, 17, a senior at McKenzie High School, was crowned Miss McKenzie 2021 during pageants at McKenzie High School on Saturday, April 10. more

CARROLL COUNTY — Fourteen high school seniors from Carroll County were recognized by the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce for their academic excellence, by scoring a 29 or better on the national ACT test. The Carroll County Chamber of Commerce hosted a luncheon on April 12 at Mallard’s Restaurant to honor these students. more

McKENZIE — McKenzie High School juniors learned about the swine operations of Tosh Farms, based in Henry. The juniors were apprised of the operations and the job opportunities at the livestock, trucking, and farming company. Three baby pigs were in the auditorium for the students to see. Those three went to new homes at the end of the program. more

McKenzie resident Jan Humphreys Latimer, is returning to the Tennessee College of Applied Technology-McKenzie to assume the role of vice-president, vacated when John Penn Ridgeway was elected as mayor of Henry County. more

Honor Roll First Grade C. Barton: Heath Johnson, Taylor Little and Samantha Umstead. K. Brown: Addilyn Brown, Samuel Burgess, Olivia Fontana, Tynleigh Kornegay, Anna Grace Robertson and Devin Towne. more

McKENZIE (March 20) — Members of the McKenzie High School Class of 2021 and their parents hosted the 2021 version of “Great Pretenders” as a fund raiser for the annual Project Graduation, a post-graduation celebration of the class. more