The 10 th edition of the Jackson International Food and Arts Festival is coming up on Sept. 21, and the JIFAF committee is ensuring traffic issues that happened last year shouldn’t repeat …

For the second time in less than a month, Jackson Housing Authority is celebrating a large grant. This time, The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded Jackson $2.3 million …

Ron Shultis moved his family to Jackson in 2022 for a couple of reasons – because his wife accepted a job in Hardeman County and he was ready to get out of the congested metropolis that is …

Kayla Beaver is known in Jackson for her abilities in softball after a prolific playing career at South Side High School, Central Arkansas University and the University of Alabama. But one …

Our Jackson Home and the City of Jackson have officially teamed up to bring some type of systematic planning and cohesion to the public arts efforts in the City’s Arts District. The Arts …

Residents of Madison County will be able to legally shoot fireworks in time for July 4, 2025. Probably. The fireworks subcommittee of the property committee of the Madison County Commission …

Ricky Dickson was a student at Baylor University when he wrote a paper on the business model of Blue Bell Ice Cream. After writing that paper, he took advantage of an opportunity to go work for …

Tuesday morning’s monthly Jackson City Council meeting saw this year’s edition of the Mayor’s Youth Council get sworn in before the elected officials conducted the business of the …

About 65 people gathered in the fellowship hall of Ararat Baptist Church near Huntersville Tuesday evening. For most of the meeting, the people heard from Madison County leaders about why …

Two finalists have been selected for the next president of Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT) Jackson. Both will participate in public interviews on the main campus in Jackson on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, the next step in the selection process. The finalists are:

Any day is a good day to accept a check for $723,528. That’s that the Jackson Housing Authority did earlier this month when the Tennessee Housing Development Agency made a stop in Jackson …

Kyle Lusby wasn’t raised to be a member of the Democratic Party. “I was raised in a Southern Baptist home with the typical values you’d expect that are in line with the …

Olivia Abernathy is the minister for community engagement at All Saints Anglican Church on McClellan Road, and one of the big projects she manages is the Diaper Project, which supplies diapers on a …

The inaugural Tennessee State Games are coming to Madison County in June of 2025, and the campaign toward that event officially started last week. Local leaders and those connected with the …

Detrick Witherspoon was a man in Jackson who loved his family and did what he could to help others. When he tragically died in 2023, his last act of helping others was fulfilling the statement …

Juanita Jones has been doing what she can for more than a decade helping either keep the youth of Jackson off the streets or at least give them a healthy alternative to gangs and committing crimes to …

The Greater Jackson Chamber has been honored with receiving the inaugural "Chamber of the Year" award in the large category by the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce Executives (TCCE). This award, introduced for the first time this year, recognizes the Chamber’s outstanding leadership, dedication to the community and excellence in chamber management.

Leaders Credit Union, a member-owned financial cooperative in Jackson, held a ribbon cutting ceremony for their new South Highland branch and hosted the Greater Jackson Chamber’s Business After Hours networking event for August.

Hundreds of firefighters, first responders were attending a conference at the state park.

The 120,000-square-foot building that houses Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Stanton at the BlueOval City site in Haywood County is gearing up for its fall semester. Although Ford Motor Company announced a delayed production of its electric truck line that will be assembled at the Tennessee Electric Vehicle Center, TCAT-Stanton is still primed to help fulfill training for the entire West Tennessee region.