Miss Tennessee of Twirling from LaVergne

It is with great delight that I write this – Rutherford County has THREE queens this year of baton twirling and two are from LaVergne!  This weekend, my daughter Melissa Tyson, her friend Erica King, and Jayden Deaver of Murfreesboro competed in Memphis for baton twirling titles.  The competition was tough, but all three won [...]

A lesson in proper sign placement

OK,  so Police Chief Boyd says that three officers spend 40 hrs a week each in Lake Forest, and that they are patrolling the streets of LFE. I have my doubts about those numbers, but alrighty, we’ll go with it.  If that is in fact the case, why are Stop signs being illegally occluded by [...]

Have I Missed Anything?

Sorry it’s been slow here on This is LaVergne.  I just came home from a week in Orlando where my daughter and the other team members of the Tennessee Twirlers competed in the US Twirling Association Southeast Regional Finals.  Her team won first place!
The twirlers used to have a class in LaVergne on Tuesday nights, [...]

Ninja Food!

After I left city hall today from paying my water bill, I noticed there’s a new restaurant … forgive me when I mess up the name because I didn’t write it down.  R&K Ninja Restaurant, or maybe K&R Ninja Food?   I remember the Ninja part and that there’s food involved.  Does anyone know anything about [...]

Things to Do at Long Hunter

I wonder what it would take to make a beach at our own Hurrican Creek recreation area.  I’m sure there’d be miles of red tape, federal prohibitions, etc. but a person can dream, right?
Meanwhile if you want to get to the lake and have some fun, Long Hunter State Park has published it’s June activities [...]

Hello June!

With all the sunshine and angel song in the air, the Wifester and I decided it’s been a bit too long since we took the Sunny Dog for a picnic in the park. We promptly packed one up and headed out. We have a neighborhood park right around the corner from where we live with picnic tables and shade trees. No playground equipment for kids, but hey, they gave us picnic tables and shade trees…