University of Tennessee Extension will once again host the West Tennessee Grain and Soybean Producers Conference on February 6 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Dyer County Fairgrounds, located at 296 …

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced that he will call for the Tennessee General Assembly to convene a special session on Monday, January 27, to pass the Education Freedom Act. Additionally, the …

Sgt. Warren Olden served in the Jackson Police Department for nearly 30 years, more than half of that as the bailiff in Jackson City Court. “He spent 15 years with us in the …

On Tuesday, Jan. 7, the City of Medina sent a press release announcing its new interim Chief of Police, Phillip Kemper. Kemper has been in law enforcement for more than 20 years, feeling called …

Beth Ann Simpson and Jackson Downtown Development got an early Christmas present in December when the state announced they'd be awarded a grant of more than $300,000 for development in the city. …

The Republican caucus of the Madison County Commission met on Jan. 13, and they discussed a few items set to be on the agenda for the County Commission meeting a week later. Ten Commissioners …

Richard Barber didn’t know what he was walking into when he showed up at Aspell Recovery on the morning of Jan. 13. For 20 years, he’d served as the executive director of the …

Julian Smith is a native of Beech Bluff, but he made history on Jan. 8 as the first ROTC cadet at Lane College to be commissioned as an officer in the United States Army. The program has been …

LOCAL BRIEFS NAACP’s MLK celebration The Jackson-Madison County Chapter of the NAACP will commemorate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with a series of events …

Two years into his administration as Mayor of Madison County, A.J. Massey has figured out the annual state of the county address. It's a speech he gives at different civic group and other …

Tuesday's monthly Jackson City Council meeting lasted about 90 minutes, and about 65 of those minutes were spent on two items on the agenda. After about a month-and-a-half of public discussion …

As the Madison County Commission moves through its list of major capital project priorities, the renovation of the Jackson-Madison County Public Library slowly gets closer and closer to the top of …

Amy McDonald is the director of Tennessee Homeless Solutions and was present at Jackson City Council's agenda review meeting on Jan. 2. She was also present for the City Council meeting on Jan. …

On Thursday, Jan. 2, the Jackson City Council was set to have a work session and agenda review ahead of its monthly meeting on Jan. 7. But before the work session began, Mayor Scott Conger …

The Tennessee Room is one of the Jackson-Madison County Public Library's biggest assets. Evelyn Keele is the current curator of the room, and Jack Wood curated it for nearly 30 years before her …

This may have been the first year for a high school basketball tournament at Christmas time to raise funds for the Ryder Lewis Memorial Fund, but this year's tournament wasn't the first. "We've …

Three weeks ago, there was a growing group of caring people who were concerned about a cat in North Jackson. A person had seen the cat near the Carlock Nissan dealership on Vann Drive. It was …

Mike Primeaux grew up in Jackson (North Side Class of 1987) and started his career in Jackson but has worked in Florida for nearly two decades now. Over the recent holiday, Mike came back to …

Charley Rohlfing hasn't lived in Jackson long. He and his wife, Londa, moved here from Illinois in 2018. Londa has become active in local politics as a leader in the local conservative …

This year's Newsmaker of the Year for The Jackson Post isn't a person or group of persons. It's a partnership or relationship that's bringing stability to a large portion of people in town who …