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Courtesy of City of Murfreesboro View Comments The city of Murfreesboro recently launched a project to teach the community of prominent figures behind the names of parks, roads, bridges and memorials. While many residents may know the Doug Young Public Safety Training Center off New Salem Highway is named after the former vice mayor and councilman, other names are less notable, especially to newcomers.  Who was John Bragg whose name resides on a highway to Woodbury? What did Baxter Ertis Hobgood do before his name appeared on a Murfreesboro elementary school? Who is behind the name on Vaugh...

On Saturday, more than 160 people showed up to Rosetta and Malah McFadden’s final farewell at their retirement picnic at Bowers Mansion in Washoe City. Families, friends and many of the students they’d taught in the 57 years they’d worked at Kinderland in Carson City came to thank them for the service before they prepare to leave Nevada in August for Oregon. Rosetta and Malah McFadden are retiring from Kinderland Nursery School in Carson City after 57 years. (Photo: Jessica Garcia/Nevada Appeal) Former Nevada Health and Human Services Director Mike Willden sent two of his so...

George Wisner, a Corvallis Gazette-Times reporter for nearly 20 years, has died after a two-year battle with colon cancer.

George Wisner, a Corvallis Gazette-Times reporter for nearly 20 years, has died after a two-year battle with colon cancer. Wisner, 79, who died Tuesday, worked for the paper from 1972-1990, earning praise for his “hard-nosed” news reporting. Those who knew him also will remember his wide range of interests and passion for life. Buddhist monks light candles to commemorate Visakha Bucha Day, a celebration of the birth, enlightenment and death of the Lord Buddha held on the full moon of the third lunar month in the Buddhist calendar, at Wat Dhammakaya Buddhist temple on the outskirts o...

The Murfreesboro Planning Commission approved last Wednesday the street name change of a two-mile segment of Mercury Boulevard to Doctor Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard.