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The 2025-26 Sewanee Community Chest Fund Drive is underway! We’re halfway to our $118,500 goal to support 19 local organizations providing Read more...
SUD Commissioner Election: Meet the Candidates
by Leslie Lytle, Messenger Staff Writer
The three candidates scheduled to appear on the ballot for the upcoming Sewanee Utility District Board of Read more...
SUD: Commissioner Election, University Apartments, Water Pumps
by Leslie Lytle, Messenger Staff Writer
At the Dec. 16 meeting, the Sewanee Utility District Board of Commissioner approved a slate of three Read more...
Critical Park Inholding Purchased for Protection
The Tennessee State Parks Conservancy and Friends of South Cumberland State Parks today announced that they have partnered to purchase a critical Read more...
Monteagle to Pursue Tree City Recognition
by Leslie Lytle, Messenger Staff Writer
At the Dec. 15 Monteagle Council meeting, Alderman Nate Wilson reviewed the benefits of receiving Tree City Read more...
Monteagle to Pursue Tree City Recognition
by Leslie Lytle, Messenger Staff Writer
At the Dec. 15 Monteagle Council meeting, Alderman Nate Wilson reviewed the benefits of receiving Tree City Read more...
Swing into the New Year with Cumberland Community Dance
Cumberland Community Dance is putting on an evening of square dancing from 5–7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 2, 2026, at the old gym in the Littell-Partin Read more...
The Hospitality Shop is on the Move
The Hospitality Shop Auxiliary Board has completed negotiations with the University to assume the lease of the building at 574 Georgia Ave., that Read more...
Winter Solstice Market Party and Potluck
The South Cumberland Farmer’s Market is hosting a Winter Solstice Market Party and Potluck from noon to 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 21, at the Sewanee Read more...
Franklin County Schools: TSBA Legislative Agenda Highlights
by Leslie Lytle, Messenger Staff Writer
Franklin County School Board Chair CleiJo Walker, Vice Chair Lance Williams, and board member Sarah Read more...
Monteagle Approves $99K Flow Study, AR Purchase
by Leslie Lytle, Messenger Staff Writer
At the Nov. 24 meeting, the Monteagle Council approved a flow study, cost $99,350, to continue ongoing work Read more...
Tennessee Craft-South Presents the 2025 Artists’ Holiday Studio Tour
Tennessee Craft–South invites the public to the 2025 Artists’ Holiday Tour 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 6 and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, Read more...
Operation Noel
In just a few weeks, it will be Christmas. While many are already planning about gifts to buy and food to eat, there are those not so fortunate. In Read more...
Empty Tables to Support Food Insecurity on the Plateau
Empty Tables seeks local artists to donate pieces for its booth at the upcoming annual Tennessee Craft South Holiday Studio Tour Dec. 6-7.
The Read more...
Holiday Tour Exhibition Opens in SAS Gallery
Vivid and inspiring creative work fills the SAS Gallery in the 2025 TN-Craft Holiday Tour Exhibition. Running through Dec. 7, 2025, the show Read more...