A Gallatin man has been convicted of multiple armed robbery and firearms offenses stemming from a three-week crime spree in 2019, according to the Middle District of Tennessee U.S. Attorney’s Office.
In December 2019, Lazavion Kern, 22, robbed four convenience stores in Gallatin and Portland, where he took thousands of dollars from the clerks, according to information cited by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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Prepare to take a nostalgic trip down to Hazzard County as the beloved stars of the iconic TV series, Dukes of Hazzard, are reuniting at the 2023 Gallatin Comic Con. Tom Wopat, known to fans as Luke Duke, will be joined by his former co-stars John Schneider (Bo Duke) and Catherine Bach (Daisy Duke) for a weekend filled with old fashion Southern charm and entertainment. The event is set to kick off on November 11th and continue through the 12th, starting at 10 am CT at the Gallatin Civic Center.
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Friday morning on The Tennessee Star Report, host Leahy welcomed Gallatin, Tennessee Mayor Paige Brown to talk about her broadcasting career and agenda as Mayor.
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GALLATIN — Physicians, scientists, and frontline professionals gathered Saturday to discuss and analyze their findings regarding proper COVID-19 treatment and care, and they said these are findings that federal agencies either don’t report or don’t acknowledge. These speakers assembled at the United Church in Gallatin.
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Friday morning on the Tennessee Star Report, host Michael Patrick Leahy welcomed mRNA and DNA vaccine inventor Dr. Robert Malone to the newsmakers line to talk about the Global Covid Summit event this Saturday in Gallatin and clarify the confusion over Cominarty and Pfizer vaccines.
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A Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) proposed transmission line that will service the new Facebook data center and support future economic development in Gallatin will impact as many as 165 property owners representing about 225 parcels, lowering their property values and raising their concerns for safety.
TVA notified property owners affected by the proposed transmission via letters dated in mid-January, which invited them to access a virtual open house between January 21 and February 22 for further information and the opportunity comment on the project.
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A new report that describes how Facebook’s data centers have impacted surrounding areas could predict how a new one will impact Gallatin.
As The Tennessee Star reported in August, Facebook will invest $800 million to build a new state-of-the-art data center in Gallatin to create approximately 100 jobs. Gallatin officials said at the time that Facebook will hire locally.
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Former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen’s Nashville-based Silicon Ranch will help power Facebook’s operations in the state.
Company officials will partner with the Tennessee Valley Authority to develop carbon-free energy for a 70-megawatt solar facility in Madison County. This, according to a press release that TVA officials published on their website Thursday.
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Facebook will invest $800 million to build a new state-of-the-art data center in Gallatin to create approximately 100 jobs, the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development announced Wednesday.
Gallatin officials told The Tennessee Star that Facebook will hire locally.
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GALLATIN, Tennessee — With great fanfare, and with help from Donald Trump Jr., U.S. Senate Republican candidate Bill Hagerty opened his first campaign office Tuesday in Gallatin, his hometown.
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GALLATIN — Donald Trump Jr. told a crowd in Gallatin Tuesday that Tennessee Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bill Hagerty “was on the Trump train before it was politically expedient.” And that, Trump went on to say, is why his dad, U.S. Republican President Donald Trump, endorsed Hagerty so early in the campaign. Trump and his girlfriend, former FOX News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle, spoke at a fundraiser for Hagerty at Gallatin’s EPIC Event Centre. Gallatin is Hagerty’s hometown. “It is safe to say that in a Republican primary today, unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for four or five years, my father’s endorsement is a pretty big deal,” Trump told the audience. “I also understand how primary politics works, and it’s not so easy. You never know what really happens. I can’t think of another individual who has been endorsed this early by my father. That’s everything you need to know. My father trusts him. He believes in him, as Bill believed in him when so few actually did.” Hagerty, meanwhile, described himself as a fourth-generation Tennessean who grew up raising cattle and pigs. Hagerty said he’s running to replace the retiring U.S. Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander because he…
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U.S. John Rose (R-TN-06) has cosponsored the “Improve Well-Being for Veterans Act,” which seeks to prevent veteran suicide.
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At the regularly scheduled October meeting of the Sumner County Board of Commissioners held Monday the 21st, the $96.7 million Phase I plan for the courthouse project was approved by a vote of 20-4.
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U.S. Rep. John Rose, a Republican representing Tennessee’s Sixth Congressional District, said this past week that if his Democratic colleagues are going to impeach U.S. Republican President Donald Trump then they need solid evidence.
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GALLATIN — U.S. Rep. John Rose, a Republican representing Tennessee’s Sixth Congressional District, said in Gallatin Thursday the Deep State is real and that people working in it impose many burdens upon the United States.
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The superintendent of Gallatin’s Public Utilities Department said there is no truth to information allegedly circulating around town about digital water meters making water bills skyrocket. “That’s not true. That must be something people are saying on Facebook,” Superintendent David Gregory told The Tennessee Star Wednesday. City officials are currently installing new digital water meters that eliminate the need for meter readers. Overall, the project costs taxpayers $6 million, Gregory said. “But people can get online when we get through with this and see what’s going through their meter. We’re about 85 percent completed with the project,” Gregory said. “Once we’re completed with the project people can get online and see what their usages are and to see the history of it.” On Tuesday, The Star received a complaint from an unnamed source about higher water bills. “The water department is changing meters to new, wireless reading meters,” the source said in an email. “Many people are complaining that since the changeover, their water bills are double, triple, and higher than their usual water bill.” One family, the source said, got a $900 water bill for a month. The source did not have any information to substantiate what they…
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Gallatin officials will spend $5.5 million of taxpayer money to satisfy the requirements of the nearly 30-year-old federal Americans With Disabilities Act. JamiAnn Hannah, risk manager for the city attorney’s office, told The Tennessee Star taxpayers will pay for the changes “because it’s the right thing to do.” She also said if it doesn’t get done then the city stands to lose a substantial chunk of state and federal grant money. Hannah said she wasn’t a Gallatin employee in 1990, when the law went into effect. She said she doesn’t know why city officials didn’t work back then to comply. When asked, Hannah said the changes are not urgent and that she and other city officials help the disabled, regardless of government mandates. “I haven’t had any complaints per se (about compliance with the law). No one has come in and said ‘That cabinet is too high. I can’t see anything that is going on.’ We always accommodate, and that is one of the things we continue to strive to do and do currently,” Hannah said. “If I can’t see someone because there is a counter in my way then I will move that counter, I will go to that…
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