Darlene Adkins smiled from her post at a teller window in the Bank of Dickson’s Pomona branch last Friday, awaiting walk-in customers while another employee worked the drive-thru.

The Dickson County Board of Education approved bonuses for all employees, citing disruptions and inconveniences that staff members have faced in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Milton Fossie opened Fossie Bar-B-Que on East Walnut St. in Dickson in 1958. Sixty-three years later, in the same location, his daughter is now cooking the meats that have kept the community well-fed.

Dickson native Brett Reynolds has joined FirstBank as a Relationship Manager at its Dickson financial center, the bank announced in a press release.

Local members of the Topless in Tennessee Jeep Club sprang into action during last week’s icy winter storm, transporting people to their jobs and winching out vehicles stuck in the snow and ice.

A Vanleer farmer died Feb. 18 while trying to save two of his calves that fell through ice into a pond on his property, authorities said.

Two state lawmakers have filed a bill to allow state and local election commissions to use fingerprints to verify voter identity at the polls.

Kris Blount, a resident of Dickson County for 30 years, has written a book about coping with the emotional effects of COVID-19.

Shanta Hinson has retired from her nearly 40-year career in nursing at TriStar Horizon Medical Center in Dickson.

At 21 years old, Toby Rice has built a lifestyle and career that many people twice his age would envy.

Karen Crouch, Shelley Dunham and Mika Sesler are the 2020 Leaders’ Circle of Success winners at the ERA Real Estate Professionals in Dickson.

Much of Middle Tennessee is under a winter storm warning until 6 a.m. Tuesday.

Laura Travis has been appointed Vice President at Tennessee College of Applied Technology Dickson. She will oversee operations at the college’s Clarksville, Dickson and Franklin campuses.

Wintery precipitation will remain throughout the state through Tuesday evening, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency announced Sunday night.

When it comes to success for a home-grown business, word of mouth is the best advertising for a restaurant with both good food and great conversation. Wall’s BBQ in Charlotte has a family-friendly feel that fills its customers’ plates with both of those.

Dickson County has officially registered 100 deaths associated with the coronavirus, about 11 months since the contagion first appeared locally.

A fake photo of two men urinating on the grave of fallen Dickson County Sheriff’s Sgt. Daniel Baker and posted on social media is “despicable” but does not constitute harassment of Baker’s family, a judge ruled.

A Nashville firefighter, his wife and their four daughters had just finished moving into their new house in White Bluff on Jan. 29 but decided to spend one more night at their previous house nearby.

Joseph and Krystal Daniels have a new trial date of June 1, 2021, in the case of their missing and allegedly murdered son, Joe Clyde Daniels.

Kallie Taylor has been selected as the executive director of CASA of Dickson County.

The owner of Big Boy’s Cigar and Lounge of Dickson, which opened in July of 2018, opened a second location last week in Spring Hill. 

“Lonesome,” an approximately 200-year-old log cabin in Burns, might soon join the National Register of Historic Places.

The Dickson County Board of Education declined to pay for a purchase option on Freed-Hardeman University’s Renaissance Center.

Parents should have an option for their children to attend school in-person during the pandemic, Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton said last week.

The Promise Land Heritage Association is holding its first fundraising campaign to raise approximately $50,000 for the restoration of the 85-year-old building that once housed the St. John Methodist Church congregation.