Today in the Upper Cumberland

Anthony Scionti offers resources on job searching from the American Job Center. Unemployment numbers this week across the Upper Cumberland improved, down virtually across the board, but still double, if not triple, what they were a year ago. This weekend marks the end of the $600 COVID payments from the federal government. They likely will not return to that level, ... Read More »

Upper Cumberland counselor April Norrod discusses helping kids through COVID-19. All of us have been impacted by COVID-19, but for the youngest members of our population, the unknowns, the changes to routine, the fear, can all be impactful. As we approach the return to school, children get their chance to put some parts of their lives back in order. April ... Read More »

Signature Algood CEO Lee Rooney discusses the early & recent COVID-19 outbreaks. This week, a cluster of COVID-19 cases at NHC McMinnville – a total of 27 positive tests, including 17 COVID patients. It reminded us what happened early in the COVID-19 outbreak at Signature Healthcare in Algood – a similar type of outbreak. Signature Algood CEO Lee Rooney led ... Read More »

Celebrate the work of Putnam County Emergency’s Brandon Smith and Tyler Smith. On this weekend where we celebrate those who gave all, we celebrate the work of Brandon Smith and Tyler Smith, part of Putnam County’s emergency team that performed so well during the March 3rd tornado. Tyler Smith is Emergency Management Director. Brandon Smith is Assistant Director, and Putnam ... Read More »

Join author Paula Casey to learn the Upper Cumberland’s part in women’s suffrage During this 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, we look back with Tennessee historian Paula Casey. Once women got the right to vote in 1920, with Tennessee the final state to pass the constitutional amendment, women found their voice across the nation. And more importantly, found their voice ... Read More »

Join author Paula Casey to learn the Upper Cumberland’s part in women’s suffrage It is the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. And you may not know it, but Tennessee played a central role in making that happen across our nation, and there were efforts all across the Upper Cumberland in 1919 and 1920 that led the ... Read More »

Find out about the different UCHRA & UCDD services available to local citizens. The work of UCHRA and UCDD across the Upper Cumberland – we continue our exploration of the two organizations with Mark Farley and his team. We’re trying to gain insight into all the different services available to local citizens, and how the organizations take care of those ... Read More »

This week, gain more insight into what UCHRA does for the people of our region. UCDD and UCHRA – two organizations born out of the Johnson War on poverty of the 1960s. Organizations designed to deliver resources to local people. Planning and development help to local communities. The two organizations came together under a recent agreement. Progress has produced a ... Read More »

This week, find out just how far the combined UCHRA and UCDD have come along. UCHRA. UCDD. Work done across the Upper Cumberland to assist people. Agents for change in our communities. Acronyms that get thrown around a lot. But do we really understand what both of these agencies do? How they help? The Upper Cumberland Development District was formed ... Read More »

Lillian Hartgrove talks COVID-19 decisions made by the State Board of Education. Lillian Hartgrove quietly stepped away from the Cookeville-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce this winter. And then COVID-19 happened. For Hartgrove, it meant getting to work as the leader of the State Board of Education. Any thoughts of taking it easy were suddenly put to the side as Hartgrove ... Read More »