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The Daily Herald When city leaders voted to terminate its management and operating contract with Rippavilla historic site, one concern for many was whether previously scheduled events would still happen. The worry includes one of Rippavilla's most-popular types of events often held every year during the spring and summer months — weddings. The city's contract with Rippavilla is set to expire in April, and during that time its board is seeking another entity to take the reigns in overseeing its annual operating and maintenance costs. If no one is found, Rippavilla would be forced to close u...

The Daily Herald The pending sale of the Northfield Workforce Development Center remains uncertain, and the city must now consider a possible extension of the previously proposed contract. The 350,000-square-foot facility, in which the city took ownership for $8.18 million in 2017, was initially purchased with the intent to relocate to the site, the Spring Hill Public Library, Spring Hill police headquarters and other various city departments. In March of last year, BOMA voted 5-4 to sell the property for $9.2 million to potential buyer Worldwide Stages (WWS) to revamp the facility into ...

Spring Hill will have some new players on its board of mayor and aldermen come April. Five of the board’s nine offices are up for election on April 8, including the mayor’s, but only one alderman is running for re-election, and not without competition. The board, which approves an annual city budget and creates city policies, is made up of the Spring Hill mayor and eight ward aldermen — two per ward — who have staggered four-year terms. Mayor Rick Graham, who was elected to his position in 2013 after serving for six years as an alderman, is among the four exiting their ...

The Daily Herald Editor's Note: This article is part of the "Mayor's Outlook 2021" series in which the area's city and county mayors reflect on happenings in 2020 and discuss the community's future in 2021, including growth, development and the economy. SPRING HILL — Spring Hill Mayor Rick Graham, who will be stepping down from office in April, recently spoke with The Daily Herald about the current state of city business, 2020 highlights and the challenges ahead in 2021. He reflected on his last 14 years serving the city as an elected official, first as an alderman in 2007 and lat...

The Daily Herald SPRING HILL — After nearly a decade of work, Spring Hill Mayor Rick Graham announced on Tuesday that the new Interstate 65 /Buckner Road project is now on track to be completed in May 2023. The Tennessee Department of Transportation awarded the project design/build contract to Bell & Associates of Nashville. The project includes the extension of Buckner Road from Buckner Lane to Lewisburg Pike. The finished project will feature "diverging diamond" ramps to and from the interchange. The project's momentum kickstarted in late 2018 when the city was awarded a $25 millio...