Tena Lee

The Christian music industry has been mourning this week the loss of Dorothy “Dottie” Leonard Miller, a single mother with a high school education whose hard work and steadfast faith propelled her to become a pioneer in the male-dominated industry. Miller, CEO and founder of Hendersonville-based companies Daywind Music Group and New Day Christian Distributors, died Oct. 11 at the […]

Hendersonville resident Martha Gann was sorting through some of her late mother’s papers when she discovered a letter from a cousin she didn’t know she had. What happened next sparked a 30-year passion that has led to the discovery of nearly two dozen ancestors who helped further the cause of independence during the Revolutionary War. It also set her on […]

The manager of a Hendersonville market and smoke shop has been charged by Hendersonville police for selling marijuana and a form of nitrous oxide out of the store. Omar Alazab, 25 of Antioch, was pulled over by an HPD officer for speeding on West Main Street on Oct. 11, according to an arrest affidavit. When the officer asked about a […]

The new football stadium planned for Beech High School in the wake of last fall’s bleacher collapse was designed to maximize the team’s home field advantage by placing fans as close to the game as possible, Director of Schools Scott Langford told school board members last week. And, while the new stadium’s design process included input from principals, athletic directors, […]

More than 50,000 Sumner County voters had cast either early or absentee ballots by the end of the day on Monday, Oct. 28, according to the Sumner County Election Office. With a daily average of around 4,400 voters who have stood in line – sometimes for more than an hour - at early voting sites in Gallatin, Hendersonville, White House, […]

Hendersonville Fire Chief Scotty Bush will receive a 2.5% bump in pay and $17,500 in quarterly installments after appealing a decision by Mayor Jamie Clary regarding a grievance he filed in May over the application of the city’s education pay policies. Bush, who has been the city’s fire chief since 2015, filed a grievance with the city on May 22 […]

School safety continues to remain a priority in Sumner County Schools with the local district issuing a joint statement with local law enforcement outlining its zero-tolerance policy regarding threats of mass violence, as well as establishing a tip line for students, parents and the community to anonymously report safety concerns. In a statement released last week and signed by Director […]

The Hendersonville Police Department received a license plate reader alert on a vehicle that had recently fled police during a traffic stop on Oct. 29. Officers located the vehicle at Texas Roadhouse and made contact with the occupants. During the interaction, police discovered that the vehicle had a fake temporary tag and an altered VIN and had been stolen from Metro Nashville on Sept. […]

Electronics retailer Best Buy has signed a long-term lease in Hendersonville’s Glenbrook Shopping Center, according to Glenbrook developer, Vastland Company. The shopping center at 1050 Glenbrook Way has been a part of the local landscape since 2003, and features national retailers like Target, Kohl’s, Kroger, Petco and Staples. Best Buy has agreed to lease the 36,000-square-feet space formerly occupied by […]

A couple who fled Hendersonville police after a reported aggravated assault on Sanders Ferry Road and before crashing their car on Vietnam Veterans Boulevard, face multiple charges including the possession of Fentanyl, according to an affidavit filed in Sumner County General Sessions Court. Marissa Bishop, 19 of Madison and 22-year-old Esdras Garcia of Nashville were both arrested on Oct. […]