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Press photo/Jake Browning - Information Technology Director Tim Burrell reviews Macon County Schools’ cyber security measures.

Press photo/Jake Browning - Information Technology Director Tim Burrell reviews Macon County Schools’ cyber security measures.

School board discusses threats to cyber security

News Staff
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Jake Browning reporter@thefranklinpress.com Arguably the greatest priority of any school system is to keep the children under its care safe. District offices go to great lengths to set up infrastructure and enlist resource officers to deter physical threats to their students.
Press photos/Jake Browning - Above, Matthew Sadlowski and Carley Specht talk about how their lambs are doing in the 4H Lamb Club’s first practice.

Press photos/Jake Browning - Above, Matthew Sadlowski and Carley Specht talk about how their lambs are doing in the 4H Lamb Club’s first practice.

Putting on a Show

Jake Browning
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Macon County 4H members returned to the fairgrounds last Tuesday night to start preparing for the 2021 lamb showing season.

Walmart shooter arrested

News Staff
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Phillip Lawrence Buchanan, 58, of Franklin was arrested June 23 after firing shots toward a delivery truck behind Walmart in Franklin. Officers were dispatched to the store on Commons Drive at 12:15 a.m.
Press photo/Emily Kepley Moss - Bees are exclusive pollinators for almonds, avocados, apples, and numerous other crops.

Press photo/Emily Kepley Moss - Bees are exclusive pollinators for almonds, avocados, apples, and numerous other crops.

Macon Beekeepers Abuzz

Will Woolever
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Will Woolever sports@thefranklinpress.com From large commercial operations to local hobbyists keeping a hive in their back yards, beekeepers across the county have been hard at work this spring maintaining their bees and harvesting honey.
Press photo/Jake Browning - Aeven Tucker, Callum Tucker and Morgan Price learn about making homemade rain gauges during “Sowing Seeds for Our Table” at the Macon County Public Library.

Press photo/Jake Browning - Aeven Tucker, Callum Tucker and Morgan Price learn about making homemade rain gauges during “Sowing Seeds for Our Table” at the Macon County Public Library.

4H sows seeds of learning at library

Jake Browning
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
The Macon County 4H Club stopped by the library on Thursday to teach kids about how gardeners and farmers provide us with the food we eat in a program called Sowing Seeds for Our Table.
Press photo/Jake Browning - Keegan McKinley with a game board he designed himself as part of Camp Invention.

Press photo/Jake Browning - Keegan McKinley with a game board he designed himself as part of Camp Invention.

Pre-teen inventors get creative at AIG Camp

Jake Browning
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Rising fifth and sixth graders put their inventiveness to the test during an academically gifted summer camp at Mountain View Intermediate School last week.
Covid update

Covid update

Macon County reports additional death related to COVID-19

News Staff
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Macon County Public Health received notification on June 8 that a Macon County resident diagnosed with COVID-19 passed away. To protect the family´s privacy, no further information will be released about this individual. This death brings Macon County to 41 deaths related to COVID-19.
Teaching teachers

Teaching teachers

Teaching Teachers

Jake Browning
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Summer vacation has started, but there was a little bit of work left to do this week for Macon County teachers taking part in a summer externship.