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WBBJ TV January 15, 2021 The Madison County Board of Health called a special meeting to discuss concerns associated with the farms. “There is a group of citizens that are very concerned about the chicken feeding barns that are going up in the Beech Bluff area of the county, and also the southwestern part in the Mercer, Tennessee area,” said Jackson-Madison County Regional Health Department Regional Director Kim Tedford. Community members presented their concerns to the Property Committee of the Madison County Commission last month. Commission members then turned the case over to the healt...

  Norman Taylor Ward, age 85 died early Friday morning at AHC Lexington Manor. He was born May 7, 1935 in Madison County, TN, son of the late Charles Thomas and Hazel Fern Holder Ward. He grew up in Beech Bluff and was a 1954 graduate of Beech Bluff High School. He worked for Caterpillar in Peoria, IL for a time then began working for Piggly Wiggly Company constructing countertops for many years. He also farmed and began woodworking and cabinetry. He raised a large garden and sold vegetables at the Farmers Market and to grocery stores in Jackson. He was a competitive trap gun shooter for ov...

WBBJ TV December 21, 2020 MADISON COUNTY, Tenn. — The Madison County Commission voted in favor of having the Jackson-Madison County Health Department deal with requests related to proposed mega chicken farms. “We’re limited about what we can do and the full body put it on the property committee’s agenda for us to discuss when we met this month,” said District 10 County Commissioner Harold Petty. Petty says commissioners attempted to help as much as they could, but found they were limited by state law. “I put it before CTASK and before our county associate organization, and they al...