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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.
Photo submitted - Hikers walk the trail followed by 18th-century naturalist William Bartram.

Photo submitted - Hikers walk the trail followed by 18th-century naturalist William Bartram.

New video series takes hikers ‘Walking with Bartram’

Mia Overton
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Mia Overton moverton@thefranklinpress.com Hikers and local history buffs can now follow along with 18th-century naturalist William Bartram from the comfort of their home before hitting the trail to see the real thing.
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Businesses seek workers despite summer vacation

News Staff
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
2021 might be the strangest year for summer jobs in quite some time.  Despite a national unemployment rate that continues to fall after the worst months of the pandemic, many businesses across the country are struggling to find and hire new workers.

Holland announces retirement

News Staff
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Longtime Macon County Sheriff Robbie Holland has announced he will not seek re-election in 2022. Holland was elected as sheriff in 2002 and is now serving his fifth term.
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.
Press photos/Linda Mathias - The Friends of the Greenway celebrate completion of the Greenway connector at a rally on June 12.

Press photos/Linda Mathias - The Friends of the Greenway celebrate completion of the Greenway connector at a rally on June 12.

FROG officially unveils Greenway connector

Jake Browning
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
The Friends of the Greenway celebrated the completion of the long-awaited connector on the Little Tennessee River Greenway with a small rally held on Saturday morning.

Police chief has violent encounter at Macon Plaza

Jake Browning
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Franklin Police Chief Bill Harrell had an intense altercation with a man last Friday evening. At approximately 5:07 p.m. in the turn lane outside Macon Plaza, Harrell said he witnessed a shirtless man, later identified as Jesse Ray Machuca, who appeared to be high.