Late Notice, But…..

Come one come all, it’s time for a get together.  Come out to Expresso Joes tomorrow afternoon at 2pm for a meet and greet and howdy do.
It has been sometime since we’ve all gotten together so if you have a free moment come support local business.  Have a thought or two and pretend we have [...]

Weakley County Has It Together

LaVergne could learn a thing or two from Weakley County, Tennessee.  With the extreme ice emergency occurring there, the emergency management department has set up a Twitter account for updates on the situation.  If you don’t have power, with Twitter you can turn on phone alerts and receive the updates on your phone.
Check out the [...]

Twitter Tweets

Thought I’d share some of my favorite tweets in the last several weeks months from Twitter.  These made me smile… Do you Twitter?  Find me @katnap.
Dear Jack Frost: until you redeem yourself, we are no longer friends.
More virus removals today & a trip to a client’s house for some computer tweaking. But first, a [...]

Tobacco Shops Robbed in LaV

I heard my mother-in-law mention this morning that a couple of places in LaV were robbed over the weekend and only now saw this in the Daily News Journal.
The suspect was described as a white male between 5 feet 8 and 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 250 to 280 pounds and wearing a brown [...]

City Considers Relinquishing Library

By Senna Mosley, City Alderwoman
I have a bit of news that certainly has me concerned.  The City of LaVergne is considering giving the library to the Linebaugh System.  We would still give the same money for the budget to my understanding for the first year.  I know that the employees would no longer be employees [...]

Jobs Going Away

I just saw on the news that Bridgestone Firestone is scaling back on tires it makes for personal vehicles.  800 jobs are to be lost.  I don’t have any more than that… Channel 4 just said, “This just in…” as they ended their noon newscast.
Crap.
UPDATE:  WSMV linked to the news article via Twitter.

Too Sick to Think

Sorry there have been no fantastic updates from me this week… I’m too sick to think.  I did change the look of our header.  My thanks to Ivy for the beautiful photo.
There is one big story brewing, but I won’t post about it until I have more details.  Meanwhile, what else is new in LaVergne [...]

Inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States

OPEN THREAD

Our weekly meeting was canceled tomorrow because half the agents want to stay home to see Barack Obama take the oath of office as the President of the U.S.   I’ll be watching.
Please feel welcome to share your thoughts about the historical day. It’s a big moment in history.

Inauguration Day: Are You Going?

UPDATE:  POLL IS CLOSED See results below.
With attendance expected in the millions, the inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama will be all over the news probably on every channel.  Are you going?  If you are, we’d love to hear your story!
Please let me know if you’d like to be added as a guest writer during [...]

2008 LaVergne Housing Numbers

Here we go.  I’ve gone a year back to see what the numbers looked like then:
Homes Sold 2006: 1,005
Homes Sold 2007:  714
Homes Sold 2008: 541
We had about a 24% drop in the number of home sales in LaVergne from 2007 to 2008.  Adding the drop from 2006 to 2007, in all sales have fallen by [...]