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Clarksville Now CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – Clarksville’s Finance and Budget Committee discussed Monday plans to sell a portion of land at Exit 8 to solar energy provider Silicon Ranch for a 15-megawatt facility. City Mayor Joe Pitts and CDE Lightband General Manager Brian Taylor said the plan would give the Nashville-based Silicon Ranch a three-year option to purchase 140.2 acres from the city for #3,360,000 for the construction of a 15-megawatt solar farm which would sell electricity to CDE at half the price of TVA. A map depicting property owned by the city of Clarksville near ...

City attorney under fire from council members, including proposed termination: Several City Council members offered strong criticism of City Attorney Lance Baker during a heated meeting this week. After one council member proposed firing Baker, she was told that’s up to the mayor, not the council. Man charged in 2017 Lincoln Homes killing over ‘eight balls’ of cocaine: Clarksville Police detectives charged William Harvey Ellis with homicide in a 2017 murder in Lincoln Homes. Ellis was the subject of the bounty hunter sting-gone-wrong in April 2017 that resulted in the death of Jalen Jo...

Clarksville NowCity of Clarksville livestreamCity Attorney Lance Baker CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – Several City Council members offered strong criticism of City Attorney Lance Baker during a heated meeting that lasted late into the night Thursday. The discussion came as part of a resolution to fire Baker, submitted by Ward 11 Councilwoman Ashlee Evans. Evans’ resolution referenced a number of ethics complaints submitted by Blackhorse Pub & Brewery owner Jeff Robinson against Baker, as well as Baker’s demeanor at January’s meeting, which Evans called obstructive. Evans specif...

Clarksville NowMontgomery County Jail. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – A woman in Texas has filed a lawsuit against the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, the City of Clarksville, Montgomery County, and others for the suicide death of her daughter, who was incarcerated at the Montgomery County Jail. The civil lawsuit was filed on Oct. 12. According to all parties named in the lawsuit, they have yet to be served. However, according to documents obtained by Clarksville Now, the summons paperwork was filed Thursday, Dec. 10. Along with the Sheriff’s Office, jail, city and county, ...

LAKELAND — The only neighbors Billy Friend has dwelling behind his house either have four legs or wings. And that’s how Friend would prefer it to stay. He and other residents of the Medulla Road area of southwest Lakeland live on lots averaging about five acres. They now see their bucolic lifestyle threatened by the proposed English Creek subdivision, which would place 85 houses on about 45 acres. The proposed development, with a planned entrance near Medulla Road and Hamilton Road, would worsen existing problems of flooding and inadequate roads, Friend and other residents say. At its me...