http://www.michael-christen.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/29d74827-374f-4ca3-aec1-daa5305f4093/Michael+Christen+Portrait+2021.jpg About/Contact Photo: Anna Blackburn Glenn http://www.michael-christen.com/beneath-the-pines daily 0.75 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459673544-H7GGIAYAGTOJYVGNE75E/Tent_City_6714_0106.jpg Beneath the Pines - Make it stand out One of two entrances to Tent City from Cedar Bridge Avenue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459673544-H7GGIAYAGTOJYVGNE75E/Tent_City_6714_0106.jpg Beneath the Pines One of two entrances to Tent City from Cedar Bridge Avenue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459918638-GT20ASL08ZPJWIX927CO/Tent_City_61414_0126.jpg Beneath the Pines Reverend Steve Brigham, the community’s primary organizer, gives one of his final sermons in Tent City’s chapel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459895347-7Y246E8Y2FSRXZ4FNC6J/Tent_City_61414_0037.jpg Beneath the Pines The facade of a small shack used for storage inside Tent City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459800708-M2U86LFH5YK9S84OWFBT/Tent_City_6914_0105.jpg Beneath the Pines Manny, a frequent visitor to tent city, plays with his dog Charlie within the camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459909652-LL3AXGW33LAPSOYP3JAR/Tent_City_61414_0098.jpg Beneath the Pines A former resident’s camper sits uninhabited inside Tent City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459934015-6T4BFYQ1P88A64AZBKO5/Tent_City_62314_0296.jpg Beneath the Pines In preparation for the camp’s closing, Reverend Steven Brigham begins to load possessions into his decommissioned school bus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459877722-8HTF6206M0TAGI9Q7XCB/Tent_City_61214_0145.jpg Beneath the Pines Matt a resident of Tent City drives through the camp bringing scrap metals to a nearby dump. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459673890-JXWKP0DSNULC3P253XOU/Tent_City_6714_0139.jpg Beneath the Pines The campsite is riddled with objects that one were part of makeshift homes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459755109-41ECPXF9835AQFIDTKDS/Tent_City_6914_0029.jpg Beneath the Pines A Tent City resident passes a puddle on a rainy day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459628412-5BZ1M4UZM4BB02A4F4L9/089A9370.jpg Beneath the Pines One of the few remaining resident of Tent City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416460018514-UO3ZOF1C7XK97DPIM78V/Tent_City_62714_0220.jpg Beneath the Pines The remains of a demolished dwelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459834573-ORAHVQQX8SECDGXKL3M9/Tent_City_61014_0053.jpg Beneath the Pines A resident rests within the confines of Tent City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459702631-PJSRPWN6MUQT9YB40J5U/Tent_City_6714_0351.jpg Beneath the Pines Before demolition, shelters are marked to inform crews of their vacancy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459750251-RKEGK0RWTESBM8PC55PK/Tent_City_6814_0251.jpg Beneath the Pines Donated food is left out allowing residence to take whatever they may need. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459994110-OSC5RY1CXZQO7JGQKVQ4/Tent_City_62714_0169.jpg Beneath the Pines Sam, a Tent City resident, sits in Lakewood’s town square. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738548804604-WH526SM7FYV4XKE8PQFS/Tent_City_6914_0246.jpg Beneath the Pines Matt, a resident of Tent City, carries supplies donated by a nearby hotel supplier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459778691-WNP1J5ZKATD14I38PFEV/Tent_City_6914_0095.jpg Beneath the Pines Manny and a visitor inspect newly arrived donations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459639876-N2KKUV7H4EWE85T86YM4/Tent_City_6714_0053.jpg Beneath the Pines An abandoned mirror in Tent City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459817643-FVBGGFBBVWWL77BMXGI5/Tent_City_6914_0141.jpg Beneath the Pines Visiting volunteers Josef, left, and Steve Brigham Jr., center, sit with a resident, right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416460065388-CNSUZEKIJU4Y25CZR19H/Tent_City_62814_0020.jpg Beneath the Pines A recreational vehicle belonging to Reverend Steve Brigham. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416460036635-8YPQON1E7NLAJD7WBJTQ/Tent_City_62714_0252.jpg Beneath the Pines Reverend Steve Brigham, left, Josef, center, and an unnamed visitor, right, visit Alex, a Tent City resident protesting in Lakewood’s town square. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459701579-G49O2H25N9R3977QDN2J/Tent_City_6814_0111.jpg Beneath the Pines Abandoned clothing form a human shape on the camp's sandy ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459965751-T2BOVLQYVGAAPYNL6C81/Tent_City_62314_0326.jpg Beneath the Pines Reverend Steve Brigham disassembles a tent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459862182-W42ZPX9QBVXYDXI4YEBA/Tent_City_61014_0057.jpg Beneath the Pines A truck carries the remains of a recently demolished Tent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1417754902148-7EZ02VB1RKRLJ91QRWKG/Tent_City_6814_0401.jpg Beneath the Pines The site of a demolished tent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738548690589-8ZUE0ZS0G3X1L45FVLII/Tent_City_61214_0070.jpg Beneath the Pines Tent City residents march on Lakewood’s town square in opposition to the camp’s forced closure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459731251-RA3RTLTSYUNP6ZSW4BHS/Tent_City_6814_0203.jpg Beneath the Pines An American Flag hangs at the second entrance to Tent City from Cedar Bridge Avenue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459652803-7QB0O5EMK81PSZKNVNO2/Tent_City_6714_0073.jpg Beneath the Pines A third entrance to Tent City on Vine Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459981540-S28F6CW4YF9KNK38R89Q/Tent_City_62714_0007.jpg Beneath the Pines Alex protests in the center of Lakewood’s town square. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416459817673-0OWSWTITZC60206U2IE8/Tent_City_6914_0162.jpg Beneath the Pines Sam in Tent City. http://www.michael-christen.com/faith-in-scandinavia daily 0.75 2025-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416301623708-N9Z9EF1XHVCMVA3BG6DY/image-asset.jpeg Faith in Scandinavia René Celinder preaches in Copenhagen's neighborhood of Nørrebro, a district home to a large population of immigrants from the Middle East. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416301187031-W6V9E6QJR9O74DNGPG2Z/_MG_5649.jpg Faith in Scandinavia A belly dancer passes as René Celinder prepares for diner in a Turkish restaurant located in central Copenhagen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416301150706-QX69GHXI3DZ6N0IA0D4S/_MG_5068.jpg Faith in Scandinavia René Celinder spiritually heals a woman's leg inside Café Arken. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416301153202-PSR6LY8KE5GQD6GKT6E4/_MG_5233.jpg Faith in Scandinavia René Celinder gives a final farewell sermon inside Café Arken the final night of the establishment's operation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416301170132-16DSWGFRIJNPJ2USABW2/_MG_5498.jpg Faith in Scandinavia René Celinder leads a prayer across the street from Nørrebro station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416301185220-NK2XLIPBL10CSYRIDZZX/_MG_5574.jpg Faith in Scandinavia René Celinder sits inside Café Arken for a final moment before returning his keys to the landlord. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416301196645-2UEXFTMA7C5U260ZX9U0/_MG_6232.jpg Faith in Scandinavia René Celinder window shops with his daughter Emma on Nørrebrogade in downtown Copenhagen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416301217795-NT22XMLGEKU926UOMW0T/_MG_7863.jpg Faith in Scandinavia To earn extra money before traveling to India, René Celinder takes up his old trade working as a painter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416301202558-47RU5XQC3LDMT5YTXI51/_MG_6398.jpg Faith in Scandinavia A friend prays for René Celinder's safe journey to India in Copenhagen's centra train terminal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416301222243-BGLM6724UXHUUKXSAGA5/_MG_8139.jpg Faith in Scandinavia René Celinder attends a Sunday morning sermon with his wife Dora Celinder and their grandchild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1416301209332-BJ87SMWJEPDT0NIEZSTD/_MG_7662.jpg Faith in Scandinavia René Celinder organizes books given to him by his sick mother inside his apartment in Vanløse. http://www.michael-christen.com/moments daily 0.75 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738533404509-B6D34KOAPL5EGN0DNRAD/2020-4-10%2BMaury%2BCounty%2BInternet%2BJones%2BFamily%2B001.jpg Moments Elijah Young, 9, a student at Culleoka Unit School, sits at the window of his rural home, the only where he can access the internet using a cellphone and continue his studies during the COVID-19 lockdown, on Friday, April 11, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1532208694261-QA1F9VBF1K2YIRWGH01O/2018-7-3+Mabry+Brothers+05.jpg Moments Rodeo champion Briar Mabry poses with his horse, Rambo, at his training ground outside of Columbia, Tenn., on Tuesday, July 3, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718380095599-52TBHE2A6A7R11H2XZKY/2021-3-7+Tennessee+National+Guard+Deployment+Diptych.jpg Moments Sgt. Ethan Maronde embraces his wife Kim Maronde before departing for an 11-month tour of duty in the Middle East with the Tennessee National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 181st Field Artillery Regiment at Smyrna/Rutherford County Airport in Smyrna, Tenn., on Sunday, March 7, 2021. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1532208761821-PIWWOCO197PXC0YUTHE8/2018-4-13+Mt+Pleasnt+Wastewater+Facility+04.jpg Moments Plant technician Steven Dowell poses at Mt. Pleasant’s William Hunter Owen Wastewater Treatment Facility in Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., on Friday, April 13, 2018. The plant processes all of Mt. Pleasant’s wastewater. A new rehabilitation project will finance a renovation of the more than three-decade-old facility to lift a moratorium placed on the city by the Tennessee Department of Environmental Conservation. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718377488875-0VDFH7A1TYGBIUWQJ2RI/2021-7-24++Beau+D.+Jammes+03.jpg Moments Beau D. Jammes sits inside his hotel room at the Richland Inn in Columbia, Tenn., on Thursday, June 24, 2021. Jammes, a former Wisconsin resident, was charged with repeat offenses of resisting an officer and disorderly conduct. He filed a federal lawsuit claiming an extended probation placed on him was illegal and caused him to lose employment and housing. “I lost everything,” Jammes said. “ It is an ongoing fight and I don’t want to fight anymore.” (Mike Christen for Wisconsin Watch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1539016298155-AIWM6I3D2BOEQV540TY7/2018-8-30+Aaron+Farmer+Home-Schooled+Football+Player+02.jpg Moments Home-schooled Columbia Central High School football and soccer player Aaron Farmer, 18, studies at his family home in Columbia, Tenn., on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496713283725-JD4IVNAZOM92ITY54YVY/Obama.jpg Moments President Barack Obama discusses the Affordable Care Act during a visit to Taylor Stratton Elementary School in Madison, Tenn., on Wednesday, July 1, 2015. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546814408961-YY8PBAO1VOL4G8DLJ1SC/2018-8-31-Andy-Ogels-Sworn-In-01.jpg Moments Incoming Maury County Mayor Andy Ogles embraces his family after being sworn in as mayor of Maury County inside the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn., on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1532208782078-3ZM693916DE8A5SFCYNK/2018-5-18+Mt.+Pleasant+Dr.+Ryan+B.+Jackson+02.jpg Moments Mt. Pleasant High School Principal Ryan B. Jackson takes a call inside the school’s mechatronics lab, in Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., which sits empty to make room for a $500,000 renovation, on Friday, May 18, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738342153162-0GPBXCMQR08P61BBSBC4/2022-1-13+Boys+and+Girls+Club+New+Sign+02.jpg Moments Bryson Leach, the owner of Good Sign Design, installs a new sign for the Boys & Girls Clubs of South Central Tennessee at its location in Columbia, Tenn., on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738523850521-SLH16TVJXHZDHM53RN0H/2021-9-3+Maury+County+Fair+01.jpg Moments Payton Pierce and Torence Boatwright share a kiss at the Maury County Fair & Exposition in Columbia, Tenn., on Friday, Sept. 3, 2021. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1532208664921-MS066LOKGITCETFSVBM5/2018-1-31+Bob+Duncan+Portrait+01.jpg Moments Shortly before his retirement, Maury County Archives Director Bob Duncan poses in the stacks of the repository in Columbia, Tenn., on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1539015761961-LQN3MMFALXOESA35S1KP/2017-3-1+Sunken+Truck+at+the+Maury+County+Park+1.2.jpg Moments Columbia Central High School Student Bobby Cognevich, 18, waits for assistance from the Columbia Fire Department after sinking his pickup truck when attempting to cross a flooded field near the entrance to the Maury County Park on Wednesday, March 1, 2017. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718380122021-552LFZM6DNUGDICLT68G/2022-4-20+Spring+Hill+High+School+Prom.jpg Moments Hailey Weathers pins a boutonniere on her date William Davis at the start of Spring Hill High School’s prom at Embassy Suites in Franklin, Tenn., on Saturday, April 30, 2022. In return, Davis presented Weathers with a corsage. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1532208767878-EUA32Y22D5TDVITXEOB7/2018-4-16+John+Carver+DIPLOMA+Maury+County+Commission.jpg Moments Maury County Public Schools Chief Digital Learning and Innovation Officer John Carver speaks to the Maury County Commission in the Memorial Building in Columbia, Tenn., regarding the purchase of more than 300 new digital devices for the school district’s DIPLOMA program on Monday, April 16, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546813779968-GGQJNV09Z9FIM73O6UG4/2018-6-16-Hampshire-Jubilee-02.jpg Moments Branden Runions does a back flip off an inflatable attraction as Mason Sikes watches during the Village Jubilee and Festival held in Hampshire on Saturday, June 16, 2018. More than 5,000 visitors were estimated to visit the small community, more than tripling the population of the unincorporated community located on the western edge of Maury County. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546814552704-15PS7WFYN8PTECNSBNPD/2018-7-13-Maury-County-Early-Voting-01.jpg Moments Gerald Martin casts his vote for Tennessee general and primary election, on the first day of early voting at the Maury County Election Commission in Columbia, Tenn., on Friday, July 13, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718377965098-YAMY9XPHOU9H46BA51H5/2022-2-16+Sandy+Hook+Bridge+Philip+Crews+03.jpg Moments Maury County local Philip Crews stands near the more than 100-year-old Sandy Hook Bridge in Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Crews is leading an effort to save the bridge from demolition. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496644340042-MUM5AOJEW281AMIAWRNF/2017-1-27+James+Woody+Barn+Santa+Fe+1.jpg Moments James Walker Woody stands in front of his family barn off Santa Fe Pike in Santa Fe, Tenn., on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2017. Woody hired local contractors to straighten the structure's warping wooden frame and replace its 70-year-old rotting weatherboard with aluminum siding. The change marks a new era for the barn built by his father, J.C. Woody, and his mother, Virgie McKey, in the 1940s. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1532208746706-Y7902M5EBF44227VM84D/2018-3-29+NFL+Prospect+Dre+Hall+at+Columbia+Mid+South+5+Fitness+01.jpg Moments NFL prospect and Columbia Central High School graduate Dre Hall rests after training inside Mid South 5 Fitness in Columbia, Tenn., on Thursday, March 29, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718377993068-RKHG6GMW1KQ5S76MYOHD/2022-1-10+House+Under+Construction+near+Mt.+Pleasant+02.jpg Moments Widows remain uninstalled halting work at a custom-built home constructed by McBroom Home Builders near Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., due to ongoing supply chain issues caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on Monday, Jan 10, 2022. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496644307485-UU90RJ325YCQ4G8FG7L6/2016-10-24+Overturned+Truck+1.jpg Moments Recovery workers wait for the arrival of a second tow truck on Ridgetop Road in Hampshire, Tenn., after an 18-wheel loaded with oil rolled off the narrow route earlier that morning on Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718375299989-TAA6MFOIS0GI0CTPSD8S/2021-1-29+Muletown+Rec+Pool+Reopening+Day+01.jpg Moments Lifeguard Kara Preston patrols the pools at the Muletown Rec health and wellness center during the first day of the aquatics center's reopening following a grassroots initiative to save the pools from closing in Columbia, Tenn., Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496644331183-HENCC85RZU7W39O8SVS6/2017-1-19+Culleoka+Unit+School+Puppy+2.jpg Moments Chayce Ketchum, 7, receives a kiss from Kaitlyn, a service dog in training at Culleoka Unit School on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in Culleoka, Tenn. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496644314133-II268HTPRG2CAYZMN6BC/2017-1-16+MLK+Day+Freedom+March+03.jpg Moments Maury County NAACP President and Grace United Missionary Baptist Church Executive Minister T. Dante Byrdsong speaks from the steps of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn., before embarking on the annual Freedom March in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496644041024-HWMLT2W3IT24H1489B28/2017-3-7+Safety+Committee+Negro+Creek+Debbie+Turner.jpg Moments Maury County Commissioner Debbie Turner speaks in disapproval of recent comments made by community members to the commission regarding the renaming of Negro Creek Road on Tuesday, March 8, 2017, in the Tom Primm Commission Meeting Room in Columbia, Tenn. During the meeting, the commission voted to change the name of both the road and the creek it is named after in honor of the Johnson family, the road's longest-running residents. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1539015768167-66J447NKYG2F7HXTOSQ2/2018-9-23+Chickasaw+Tennessee+Interscholastic+Cycling+League+03.jpg Moments Ayden Lane of Christian Brothers High School rides through the mud during the first Tennessee NICA junior varsity race of the season at Chickasaw Trace Park in Columbia, Tenn., on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738523161211-MSBTV4PICKIYDSZCUADH/2019-11-13+Columbia+Christmas+Tree+01.jpg Moments Columbia Public Works employee Terry Redding works on assembling a massive decorative Christmas tree from inside the 40-foot structure in downtown Columbia, Tenn., on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496644282502-2IPXIXJZ02H58MFVFT1L/2016-10-22KiwanisChiliCook-Off9.jpg Moments Children Play in the “Wrecking Ball” inflatable during a Chili-Cook Off hosted by the Kiwanis Club of Columbia at Elm Springs in Columbia, Tenn., on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2016. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496644486165-TLU1GWG0FMPVWYJO3GI6/2017-4-11+Tom+Harmon+Paining+on+the+Square+01.jpg Moments Retired teacher Tom Harmon paints the facade of a building in downtown Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., on Tuesday, April 11, 2017. "I am trying to bring attention to what might be happening inside," Harmon said. "It’s coming along okay, but I am not going to quit my day job. It is just something that I enjoy.” (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546814025205-HLERJ6VLEPGHT8JNG4EJ/2018-10-23-Vigil-for-Collier-Murder-Suicide-04.jpg Moments Christina Prince embraces her partner Anton Hansen at the steps of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn., during a prayer vigil for her cousin and her family involved in a murder-suicide held on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496644400988-9EXD63JA2XUTTOKM6HPX/2017-3-3+Gallery+205+01.jpg Moments Curators Laura and Daniel Rood sit inside Gallery 205 in Columbia, Tenn. on March 3, 2017. The husband and wife duo opened the gallery in October 2016 and have since exhibited contemporary artists from around the corner to across the globe. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546813842944-DI0ZEH952KOT9VZJ8V3S/2018-10-19-Danielle-Gibson-Taekwondo-Champion-03.jpg Moments Danielle Gibson, 16, a Columbia native and an international Taekwondo world champion, trains at Columbia Taekwondo in Columbia, Tenn., on Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738523068939-ZFLJZF9GBBLGDXOESKU3/2020-1-27+Scout+Cabin+Mt.+Pleasant+02.jpg Moments Ross Kenney, a Boy Scout troop leader and student at Mt. Pleasant High School, stands inside a deteriorating 120-year-old cabin at Howard Field Park in Mt. Pleasant on Jan., 27, 2020. Kenney is working to save the historic building. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738524153509-LSNHD5S83B90TBDIIGL4/2020-4-10+Pig+and+Leaf+Farm+05.jpg Moments Pig & Leaf Farm owner Cliff Daivs inspects a greenhouse at the farm in Summertown, Tenn., on Friday, April 10, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546814741938-QWQ29HJ4EK5O81UB66OM/2018-10-23-Vigil-for-Collier-Murder-Suicide-05.jpg Moments Columbia Vice Mayor Christa Martin bows her head in prayer during a vigil for the victims, family and first responders of a murder-suicide held on the the steps of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn., on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496814442961-0WUDLPRQ45Q0JXVXW9U5/2017-2-6+Standoff+3.jpg Moments Columbia SWAT team members keep guard during a standoff with an allegedly armed suspect in front of a vacant church at the corner of West 8th Street and High Street in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, Feb. 6. 2017. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1497658349712-JQTHCH6Y2L3I0GAYA1J2/2017-5-25+Ayden+Orr+and+Kadi+06.jpg Moments Ayden Orr, 5, plays with his service dog, Kadi, inside his family’s Lewisburg, Tenn., home Friday, May 26, 2017. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496644447391-1JZ7MKHBGTWV57I3F0PS/2017-3-13+Baby+Rylee+Gathering+01.jpg Moments Elizabeth Bratton holds her daughter Adasyn, 6, on March 13, 2017 at Heritage Funeral Home in Columbia, Tenn., during a ceremony for her second daughter, Rylee, who passed away just hours after birth in February due to complications caused by the rare genetic condition Trisomy 13. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1539015751906-GYZZ5H7XMT9UNZH08U2Z/2018-9-12+Build+and+Learn+New+Ramp+01+%281%29.jpg Moments Ret. Command Sgt. Major William ‘Skip’ Bottoms and Build and Learn, Inc., founder Quinton Jones at Bottom’s home in Columbia, Tenn., on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. Jones’ organization built the access ramp that gave the Bottoms, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2016, greater mobility in her daily life. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738527772048-1H3E9163DFFJJZ5OZZCM/2019-11-2+MCFD+Santa+Fe+Burn+Training+03.jpg Moments Black smoke billows inside a home as Maury County Firefighters prepare to enter the burning structure as part of a training exercise in Santa Fe, Tenn., on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496644490118-8MKQHGHGRABE608NOANK/2017-4-8+Spring+Hill+Easter+Egg+Drop+6.jpg Moments Swayze Doyle, 4, picks up Easter eggs during a community hunt at Evans Park in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Saturday, April 8, 2017. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738703185096-O6LMZKVA56QJG7HQ31I4/2022-5-2+Fayth+Layne+Shooter+10.jpg Moments Champion skeet shooter Faythe Layne poses with some of her medals outside her home in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, May 2, 2022. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1497659812965-FM71W0K9Q1ALPYUZEIAC/2016-11-30+Dismissal+at+Brown+02.jpg Moments In the days following a deadly school bus accident killing six children in Chattanooga, Tenn., Joseph Brown Elementary School first grader Teiona Williamson, 6, climbs onto her school bus after dismissal in Columbia, Tenn., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. Maury County Public Schools stressed to parents that recently implemented systems including a GPS tracker on each bus and intensive training for new drivers help keep students safe on their way to and from school. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738522839677-SS8M9JYVZFXUQ426KQKX/2020-2-6+Floodwaters+at+Riverwalk+Park+01.jpg Moments Columbia resident Tammy Dick takes a phone call near the flooded banks of the Duck River at Riverwalk Park in Columbia on Thursday, Feb., 6, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738526606610-7VVH7AP23AKN0J5N4Z03/2019-1-21+MLK+Day+14.jpg Moments Annie Hardison, a member of the Maury County County Concerned Citizens, and Kimberly Ladd hold hands in prayer during the Propelled with a Purpose celebration in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., at Mt. Lebanon Missionary Baptist Church in Columbia on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718380122652-WG47LC6EJ9DOIKPMMBJ9/2021-1-22+Bella+Coyne+Diptych.jpg Moments Bella Coyne, 16, stands near the entrance to Columbia’s Red King Productions in Columbia, Tenn on Friday, Jan., 22, 2021. At the studio, Coyne recorded the web-based Broadway Musical "Killer Party: A Murder Mystery Musical," presented by Broadway Actors Alliance of New York City. She practices her dance routine in the front yard of her home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496707904760-N1WMSYZ1A3RT3RGXP7QT/7-26-17StudetnsVistitGMPlant.jpg Moments A Marshall County High School student organizes nuts and bolts in a simulated work environment during a training camp at the General Motors manufacturing facility in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Wednesday, July 27, 2016. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718377454707-BHCRVKCROU4V3ORG7E6K/2021-10-13%2BVigil%2Bfor%2BKailee%2BGrace%2BWarren%2B01.jpg Moments Lilly Yahya, left, and Sarah White, rigtht, lean on each other during a vigil for Battle Creek Middle School sixth-grader Kailee Grace Warren at Spring Hill High School in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. Warren, 11, was killed alongside her mother and half brother during a shooting at their home. (Mike Christen / The Columbia Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738527454951-J4LOI3ZQ0OEOEQHA73BB/2020-6-2+Spring+Hill+Black+Lives+Matter+10.jpg Moments Community organizer Madi Johnson, a recent graduate of Independence High School, shakes hands with Spring Hill Police Chief Don Brite during a Black Lives Matter demonstration held in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738703179445-OBXFOAYD6C43713XTROE/2020-6-2+Spring+Hill+Black+Lives+Matter+02.jpg Moments Tonia Andaluz, center, is embraced by Debra Solberg, left, Maggie Delsi, right, during a Black Lives Matter demonstration held at the intersection of Main Street and Campbell Station Parkway in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. (Mike Christen/The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496644301963-BR34E1DGMDR5AM6HRI59/2016-12-12ColumbiaMainStreetChristmasParade1.jpg Moments The Columbia Central High School Marching Band makes its way down South Main Street in Columbia, Tenn., during the Main Street Christmas Parade on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1497663739262-H1UXG3FFZG33EKAOH794/2017-1-9+Fire+on+Wilderness+Trail+01.jpg Moments Columbia Fire Department Truck 3 Engineer Nathan Keeton, left, assists first-time firefighter Eric Neible store hoses after responding to a structure fire in the 600 block of Wilderness Trail in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718378000658-JV4U4WFSNHV4CQJVGXTK/2022-3-30+Mule+Day+Wagon+Train+Arrives+in+Columbia+02.jpg Moments Recognized “Mule Man” Koy Flowers rests inside a stall at the Maury County Park during the annual Mule Day celebration in Columbia, Tenn., on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738941851837-N1JW5FUY6L9WKRF0ODVX/2020-1-2+DiMarco+Williams+06.jpg Moments DiMarco Williams stands inside the shop where he works detailing cars for a local dealership in Columbia, Tenn., Thursday, Jan. 2, 2019. Williams, who served a 20-year prison sentence for second-degree murder, says he finds comfort and pride working as a one-man cleaning team. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546813670450-5OO2GFEBIF2RLFRDY1BQ/2018-7-19-School-Board-Budget-Committee-05.jpg Moments Maury County Public School Superintendent Chris Marczak during a meeting of the Maury County Commission budget committee at Heritage Bank and Trust in Columbia, Tenn., on Thursday, July 19, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718380225568-Y2KH9RFP1GMDUHTK9QEN/2021-11-8+WWII+Veteran+George+Horne.jpg Moments World War II veteran George Horne stands inside the dining room of his home in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. His discharge papers from 1945 and a portrait of him from the time rest on the dining room table. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718401365045-VCE8B7YHWLKRT53ZVMVL/2021-10-13+Mt.+Pleasant+Record+Gallery+001.jpg Moments Brothers Pat Greene, left, and Mike Greene, right, the owners of the more than 140-year-old storefront and former newspaper building renovated and reopened as the Mt. Pleasant Record Gallery, are at work inside the newly rebuilt historic building in Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718377919089-AEUPM9WALBFY7OGHY866/2022-2-19+Kanye+Conway+and+Ryon+Conway+01.jpg Moments The young creators of the graphic novel “Nightman,” Kanye Conway and Ryon Conway stand in front of the Maury County Library in Columbia, Tenn., on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738702479582-XQR8KP4L516JGQD0XN4X/2020-5-20+Spring+Hill+Stewart+Campbell+Pointe+Chicanes+01.jpg Moments Dave Bechtel, a resident of Stewart Campbell Pointe in Spring Hill, watches as cars pass a set of newly installed chicanes in front of his home on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Bechtel and other neighbors say the minor barriers have done little to slow drivers that speed on the residential road. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1496707909669-272ERU5GX3CCCPB5M5JH/8-3-16KatieSeaton.jpg Moments Katie Seaton, 9, trains on the high bar at Discovery Gymnastics in Columbia, Tenn., Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738341675105-6WZMU3TC3YFRE9UJMRCS/2021-11-3+Charlie+Norman+04.jpg Moments Maury County Mayor Charlie Norman stands outside his home in Maury County, Tenn., on Wednesday, November 3, 2021. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738341763104-R3BZCHODCDHD9J5P238E/2022-4-29+South+High+Street+Camp+01.jpg Moments Sammy Howl stands along West 7th Street in downtown Columbia, Tenn., on April 29, 2022. He has experienced housing insecurity for the past four years. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738341726853-MG3WXD5M1Y24LQQ8NSJ6/2021-11-19+The+Family+Center+Thanksgiving+01.jpg Moments Mary Prinzo and her mother Teresa Prinzo unload donated gifts for children from struggling households at the nonprofit The Family Center in Columbia, Tenn., on Friday, Nov. 20, 2021. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718385211927-1NYYVLF78M7RLHK1YP85/2021-4-2+Light+Hill+Premium%C2%A0Meats+Tryptic.jpg Moments Ben Neale, the owner of Light Hill Premium Meats, walks out of a storage cooler with a frozen cut of beef at the company’s operation in Giles County, Tenn., on Friday, April 2, 2021. Francisco Martinez carves fresh steaks at the facility. The small family-owned operation boomed during the spread of COVID-19, with many local ranchers seeking an alternative to industrial-scale operations and supply chain strains. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1497662106161-QE0SPEMLQXBNZZWGU0ZG/2017-4-9+Polk+Home+and+Museum+3.jpg Moments Tour Guide Jim Adkins opens an armoire inside the master bedroom of the President James K. Polk Ancestral Home in Columbia, Tenn. on Sunday, April 9, 2017. Local residents are pushing the state legislature to move the remains of the 11th President of the United States and his wife Sarah Childress Polk from their resting place at the foot of the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville to the museum located more than 40 miles away. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718400909618-RSH5H9BSLO0BITEJJYM3/2021-8-20+Congressman+Mark+Green+10.jpg Moments Congressman Mark Green speaks to Delk Kennedy, the owner of a local radio station WKOM, inside the Memorial Building in Columbia, Tenn., on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738341769536-P87HKHH3GHZT09PE600J/2022-5-19+Columbia+Police+Departmment+Skyline+Drive+Homicide+Press+Confrence+03.jpg Moments Columbia Police Department Captain Jeremy Haywood leads a press conference providing additional details on the suspected murder of Katrina Gaines, 51, and Christopher Gaines, 56, from the steps of the Columbia Police Department in Columbia, Tenn., on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738341769644-EI5ZI9M9REYJHKKKXS61/2022-5-3+Courthouse+Roe+V.+Wade+Protest+Columbia+Courthouse+Square+05.jpg Moments Diamond Alfred and Honore Blount debate abortion with pro-life demonstrators Arron Miller, Nathan Close, Joe Prinsloo and Adele Prinsloo on the steps of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn., on May 3, 2022. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1718377977418-8TQML843V8MJTOVN2C8G/2021-12-17+Shop+With+A+Cop+02.jpg Moments Corrections Officer Alex Bear shops with student Aurellia Greer during a Shop With a Cop event hosted by the Maury County Sheriff’s Department at a Walmart in Columbia, Tenn., on Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738341658509-Z4GIAYN2X834733U9ZE5/2021-7-18+Yvnonne+Ogilvie+Birthday+Party+01.jpg Moments Yvonne Ogilvie celebrates her 60th birthday during a service at New Zion Original Church of God in Columbia, Tenn., on Sunday, July 18, 2021. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) http://www.michael-christen.com/reports daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1600980599478-GYY9FP59C1NFQGKZRJK1/2020-9-14+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+01.jpg Reports Jennifer Rodriguez stands inside her home a day after a flash flood swept through the rural southern Middle Tennessee community of Handy Hook, Tenn., on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Mike Christen/The Daily Herald https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1600979243783-B6065SA7AN87MEYS5RN1/2020-3-5-North-Nashville-Tornado-Recovery-02.jpg Reports Jay Renfro, an ecology teacher from Antioch, carries a piece of a downed tree from the backyard of a home in the Ossage/North Fisk neighborhood of Nashville during a tornado cleanup effort on Thursday, March 5, 2020. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1600981619811-5IC1I58Q5UI29DNCEZB4/2020-3-5-North-Nashville-Tornado-Recovery-03.jpg Reports Johnathan Head carries a stump of a downed tree from the backyard of a home in the Ossage/North Fisk neighborhood of Nashville during a tornado cleanup effort on Thursday, March 5, 2020. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1600979493108-YXZSZGEZG8LURY3KHV9J/2020-3-5-North-Nashville-Tornado-Recovery-01.jpg Reports Johnathan St. Martin, a wealth management specialist with UBS, carries a piece of a downed tree from the backyard of a home in the Ossage/North Fisk neighborhood of Nashville during a tornado cleanup effort on Thursday, March 5, 2020. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1578703721283-LEDL3I56UPO0TYC4QURH/ELeIn5MXkAIvKtl.jpg Reports Maury County Building and Zoning confirmed this unapproved dump site located in a rural area south of Mt. Pleasant was owned by the developer of the former Polk Motel property. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1578705658118-SWYACWVD56W380VUM5FK/AR-309089999.jpg Reports Waste lays exposed at the closed landfill at Chickasaw Trace Park on Saturday, May 18, 2019. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1578705896774-C9OBSWKCCT1DB5Q955DR/AR-191119858.jpg Reports A marker shows where a proposed fence will stand surrounding the closed and covered Maury County landfill near Chickasaw Trace Park just north of Columbia on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1581262247328-1BM0Y07HTM633UUQDM36/2018-10-19+Danielle+Gibson+Taekwondo+Champion+07.jpg Reports Danielle Gibson, 16, a Columbia native and an international Taekwondo world champion, trains at Columbia Taekwondo on Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Columbia Daily herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1581910961400-UR4CC6B6H949B6CDO678/2018-10-19+Danielle+Gibson+Taekwondo+Champion+02.jpg Reports Danielle Gibson, 16, a Columbia native and an international Taekwondo world champion, spars against Ash Mendoza, 14, at Columbia Taekwondo on Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Columbia Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1581262859787-GHH6P46QVSWYECGVUEUR/2018-10-19+Danielle+Gibson+Taekwondo+Champion+01.jpg Reports Danielle Gibson, 16, a Columbia native and an international Taekwondo world champion, teaches a class at Columbia Taekwondo on Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1581260706697-BWQV1FXO8SW05NL6MH89/2018-10-29+Darren+Fish+at+Home+01.jpg Reports Former General Motors employee Darren Fish, 59, stands in the hallway of his rented Spring Hill condominium on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, months after losing his job at the auto maker’s Tennessee plant. The GM employee of 39 years says he was systematically removed from the plant due to his age and heath condition. (Mike Christen / The Columbia Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1581260841621-FED7C35EFU3EWNJV45VT/2018-10-29+Darren+Fish+At+Home+02.jpg Reports Former General Motors employee Darren Fish, 59, looks through legal documents inside his rented Spring Hill condominium Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, months after losing his job at the auto maker’s Tennessee plant. The GM employee of 39 years says he was systematically removed from the plant due to his age and heath condition. (Mike Christen / The Columbia Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1581261023400-XH1HPRZTKU45N339GX0M/Darren+Fish+Portait+02.jpg Reports Darren Fish, a General Motors employee of 39 years, says he was systematically removed from the auto maker’s Spring Hill plant due to his age and heath. (Mike Christen / The Columbia Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546795713495-03AQDP26MAPR4VKWF1R3/Dvw336pWsAAIJT9.jpg Reports The Cherry Glen Industrial Park, a 300 acre property just north of Mt. Pleasant, is a certified site by the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546812771439-VAAYD5SSF09X2JYJCSGK/Screen+Shot+2019-01-06+at+1.05.04+PM.png Reports The future site of a new $60.9 million facility for auto components maker Fuel Total Systems sits at the Cherry Glen Industrial Park in Mt. Pleasant on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546802620045-V771CZFZRZU9S9LZZ05D/Screen+Shot+2019-01-06+at+1.10.05+PM.png Reports Fuel Total Systems President Tatsutoshi Takashima, Mt. Pleasant Mayor Jim Bailey and FTS Co., Ltd. President Hiroyuki Ochiai participate in the groundbreaking celebration of a Fuel Total Systems plant at Cherry Glenn Industrial Park in Mt. Pleasant on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2018. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546802730769-8L84B53W5H8RDAMIJBO2/Screen+Shot+2019-01-06+at+1.05.35+PM.png Reports The future site of Fuel Total Systems’s manufacturing facility at the Cherry Glen Industrial Park in Mt. Pleasant on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546811277354-M41G4TS7CUNJLFCX73BI/2018-8-31-Maury-County-Commissioner-Don-Morrow-01.jpg Reports Maury County Commissioner Don Morrow is sworn in during the administration of oaths for incoming and re-elected officials inside the Maury County Courthouse on Friday Aug. 31, 2018. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546812196225-AZGYORG01WE7HN4KHXIN/MichaelFulbright.jpg Reports Michael Fulbright leads his first meeting of the Maury County Commission as chairman in September 2016. (Staff file photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538868206515-IFL3MXWDCFNSG3FC0JDA/2018-9-23+Chickasaw+Tennessee+Interscholastic+Cycling+League+01.jpg Reports Cole Mattingly of Christian Brothers High School starts off riding through a puddle during the first Tennessee NICA junior varsity race of the season at Chickasaw Trace Park on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538946241258-6JR2R497JSV3WY2EWK23/2018-9-23+Chickasaw+Tennessee+Interscholastic+Cycling+League+02.jpg Reports A rider in the Tennessee NICA middle school boys division nears the finish of the first race of the season at Chickasaw Trace Park in Columbia on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538946526884-KHQMT6YVJVCS27HABV5A/2018-9-23+Chickasaw+Tennessee+Interscholastic+Cycling+League+11.jpg Reports Riders with the Tennessee NICA middle school boys division walk through the mud with the first race of the season at Chickasaw Trace Park on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538946827968-OG47BSLAUITQR8R19H2Z/2018-9-23+Chickasaw+Tennessee+Interscholastic+Cycling+League+12.jpg Reports Riley Figueroa of the Williamson County Composite Team rides through the mud during the first Tennessee NICA sophomore race of the season at Chickasaw Trace Park on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538867555191-SJTJODIG8283E3W3BDNX/2018-9-7+Cermony+for+SHHS+Football+Coach+Will+Fisher+13.jpg Reports Spring Hill head football coach Ben Martin and team members listen to a performance of “Amazing Grace,” by the school band in honor of the recently deceased assistant coach Will Fisher on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538868576572-8QRPZH1QGKXAVYPORRYM/2018-9-24+Potential+McDowell+Closure+School+Board+Meeting+01.jpg Reports McDowell Elementary School fourth-grader Kylee Martin, joined by her father James Martin, asks the board members of Maury County Public Schools not to close down her school during a meeting at Horace O. Porter school on Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538869186286-J6WTDDLYGF3DKWCMYT20/2018-7-22+Cutting+Hair+for+Olivia+Anderson+01.jpg Reports Naomie Scarberry, 9, reacts after donating her hair in support of her friend Olivia Anderson, who was diagnosis with a brain tumor last year, at Rustic Roots Salon in Columbia, Tenn., on Sunday July 22, 2018. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538945129464-WYI6E3BMFAPYCV9IVFIU/2018-7-22+Cutting+Hair+for+Olivia+Anderson+03.jpg Reports Highland Park Elementary school teacher Natalie L. Bone, left, prepares to donate her hair in honor of her student Olivia Anderson, 9, right, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in December 2017, and is now being treated with radiation and chemotherapy. A special fundraising event of Anderson was held at Rustic Roots Salon in Columbia, Tenn., on Sunday July 22, 2018. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538945461446-MAOMNK490ZZDCU2RZU00/2018-2-3+Oliva+Anderson+at+Vanderbilt+04.jpg Reports Madeline Anderson, right, plays with her sister Oliva Anderson, left, inside the Monroe Caole Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538945803334-UG8980FDQ914O4CQBCU5/2018-7-22+Cutting+Hair+for+Olivia+Anderson+05.jpg Reports Highland Park Elementary school teacher Natalie L. Bone donates her hair in honor of her student Olivia Anderson, 9, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in December 2017, and is now being treated with radiation and chemotherapy. Her hair is cut by Kayla Sims at Rustic Roots Salon in Columbia, Tenn., on Sunday July 22, 2018. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1504574446653-YR5KL7AI0OFUW03KOK1P/Screen+Shot+2017-09-04+at+8.14.40+PM.png Reports Kathie Wilson of Trinity Lutheran Church holds a freshly picked tomato from the church’s new community garden in Columbia on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Every Tuesday and Friday the church will give away the vegetables at no charge. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1499319753872-EIC0OH0RQW7LKTNS5Q58/image-asset.jpeg Reports Kourtney Nelson poses inside her Lawrenceburg home on Thursday May 11, 2017, with a wedding portrait of her and her deceased husband, 35-year-old Bradley Ross Nelson, who died after being shot during an altercation with an officer from the Mt. Pleasant Police Department in February 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538954148074-2W7BDNPTNV08DK7XD9TQ/2017-5-11+Kourtney+Nelson+06.jpg Reports Kourtney Nelson hold’s her husband’s wedding band inside their Lewisburg home. Her husband Bradley Ross Nelson, 35, died after being shot in an altercation with an officer from the Mt. Pleasant Police Department in February 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538954393578-PC89S84GNYZZR9VI6MCF/2017-5-11+Kourtney+Nelson+03.jpg Reports Kourtney Nelson keeps the belongings her husband had on him the night of his death inside a small box. She also keeps items from the scene of the incident including police caution tape wrapped around the scene of the incident. Bradley Ross Nelson, 35, died after being shot in an altercation with an officer from the Mt. Pleasant Police Department in February. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1499319894431-OESR57BC009OZ8XTB0T9/2016-12-3+Pleasant+Heights+Drop+off+in+Pigeon+Forge+3.jpg Reports Volunteers Jason Sutphin, left, and Steve Tilson help the group from Columbia’s Pleasant Heights Baptist Church unload water bottles at a relief center in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538955171797-BONL0WIAGIA0O3WMJX91/2016-12-3+Pleasant+Heights+Drop+off+in+Pigeon+Forge+2.jpg Reports Mary Taylor of Columbia’s Pleasant Heights Baptist Church unloads water from their rented truck at as Caroline Benefield assists from inside the truck and Christy Langford sands below on Saturday, Dec 3, 2016. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538955058868-50ME78M7PM8OSTY1HUGI/2016-11-2+Scourched+Gatlinburg+01.jpg Reports The ruins of an apartment building scorched by flames on Cherokee Orchard road sit below a seemingly unscathed Park Vista Hotel in Gatlinburg, Tenn. on Friday, Dec. 1, 2016, after a wildfire swept through resort town in late November. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1499324414710-4PA90EASCCATDBE97UKB/download.jpg Reports Members of the Spring Hill Fire Department sleep on the drive home after battling wildfires in Sevier County and searching through scorched structures for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. (Courtesy photo by Spring Hill Fire Chief Tim Hood) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538955434372-5ORX8UPOAWMCZS34AUQO/2016-11-2+Scourched+Gatlinburg+06.jpg Reports The Parkway, Gatlinburg’s main thoroughfare, is completely devoid of the throngs of tourists that usually inhabit the street shortly before curfew on Friday, Dec. 1, 2016. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538955585458-ZGFPTE3LZORV7WGJGH3G/2016-11-2+Scourched+Gatlinburg+05.jpg Reports Charred automobiles sit in the parking lot for three small apartment buildings on Circle Drive on Friday Dec. 1, 2016, destroyed by the wildfires that scorched Gatlinburg in late November. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1499320069436-OKRSYOTM34NR79DIULO7/2017-4-20+TBI+Tad+Cummins+Press+Conference+01.jpg Reports Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn shares information on the arrest of 50-year-old former Maury County Public Schools teacher Tad Cummins, charged with transportation of a minor across state lines for the purpose of having sexual intercourse during a press conference at the TBI headquarters in Nashville, Tenn. on Thursday, April 20, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538934637961-33TZQJ1QPIZ18WKSQ3MW/2017-4-20+TBI+Tad+Cummins+Press+Conference+04.jpg Reports District Attorney Brent Cooper speaks with journalists following a press conference announcing the arrest of 50-year-old Maury County teacher Tad Cummins at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday, April 20, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1499322578091-B4L5RI7JC7Z4Y2Q7454M/2017-4-7+MCPS+Task+Force+7.jpg Reports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538934831609-A9WM4ZTX6P2J11WYNI5Q/2017-4-7+MCPS+Task+Force+10.jpg Reports Maury County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Chris Marczak reads a prepared statement to the media following the first meeting of a special task force meeting on Friday, April 7, 2017, at Horace O. Porter School in Columbia. The group was formed to review school procedures following the alleged kidnapping of 15-year-old Culleoka Unit School freshman Elizabeth Thomas. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1499319855998-3YTO3WNYEYATYKQJBOUQ/2017-5-26+Ayden+and+Service+Dog+Kadi+03.jpg Reports Will Orr pets service dog Kadi as Ayden Orr, 5, left and his brother Cameron, 8, right play video games inside their Lewisburg home on Friday, May 26, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538935265418-8YIV7V4MKHHUQFFJFHDC/2017-5-25+Ayden+Orr+and+Kadi+06.jpg Reports Ayden Orr, 5, rests with his service dog, Kadi, inside their Lewisburg home on Friday, May 26, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1499320559145-G533AZKRD2URC0ZOMDZY/2016-12-7NegroCreekRoad1.jpg Reports Signage for Negro Creek Road sits high atop a rural intersection in Maury County on Dec. 7, 2016. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538935606989-QCOAKTEXCB4E753N676K/2016-12-6+Rev.+Trent+Ogilvie+on+Negro+Creek+Road.jpg Reports Rev. Trent Ogilvie of the Stand Together Fellowship proposes the Maury County Commission change the name of Negro Creek Road to Violet Harrison Road during the safety committee meeting on Dec. 6, 2016. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1499321382220-8JK8IXKX0UZIIU4NI40B/2017-4-22+Sheldon+Family+Home+Fire+01.jpg Reports Fire left a Hickman County home a complete loss on Saturday, April 22, 2017, after lightening stuck the home in the early morning hours. (Courtesy photo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1499322329203-VYRZ34FJFA2BWZTFWN7E/2017-5-2+Freon+Leak+at+Joseph+Brown+Elementary+01.jpg Reports Students at Joseph Brown Elementary School wait in the shade of a tree while Columbia firefighters respond to a leaking walk-in refrigerator inside the school’s kitchen on May, 2, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538936225500-E0D2BZNQ41KZV9P1LCHK/2017-5-2+Freon+Leak+at+Joseph+Brown+Elementary+02.jpg Reports A firetruck sits outside Joseph Brown Elementary School as firefighters respond to a leaking walk-in refrigerator inside the school’s kitchen on May, 2, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1499325440571-XJVC0AS7UTAYVGJQU65J/2017-5-9+Tennyson+Funeral+12.jpg Reports Hundreds gathered to pay thier respects to the late Capt. Jimmy Tennyson inside South Gate Church of Christ in Columbia on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538936880212-4GJHAUMFEF88821KMST2/2017-5-9+Tennyson+Funeral+8.jpg Reports Det. Trent Thomson of the Columbia Police Department stands at attention as Maury County Sheriff Deputies pull out of South Gate Church of Christ following the memorial service for Capt. Jimmy Tennyson on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538936630275-MPWP0IP8Y5RAZUH22F03/2017-5-6+Tennyson+Funeral+1.jpg Reports The family of Capt. Jimmy Tennyson say farewell to their their father during his funeral at South Gate Church of Christ in Columbia on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538937015718-FNGVY0D7KB65IGWQWUD6/2017-5-9+Tennyson+Funeral+11.jpg Reports Hundreds of law enforcement vehicles escorted the remains of Capt. Jimmy Tennyson to their final resting place at Maury Memorial Garden on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1499326732936-C7WB2OFCZ5VX62936FDA/2017-3-29+Maury+County+General+Sessions+II+3.jpg Reports Audit Documents sit of the ground of the deteriorating Maury County General Sessions II second floor in Mt. Pleasant on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538937359163-RUITKZ7DVJLR9UIWS5WV/2017-3-29+Maury+County+General+Sessions+II+2.jpg Reports Maury County Commission Building Committee Chairman Eric Previti sits in the judges seat inside Maury County General Session II Court on on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538937781100-F015PZAXMIZK3NJGKZSP/2017-5-17+Mt.+Pleasant+General+Sessions+II+Crowded+02.jpg Reports Dozens wait to attend court inside the Ed T. Workman in Mt. Pleasant on Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Jude Lee Bailey said the court saw more than 400 on the day’s docket. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538937928384-CWX6D4L0Z1EX54DJ3YWJ/2017-5-17+Mt.+Pleasant+General+Sessions+II+Crowded+03.jpg Reports Deputy Howard Mangrum with the Maury County Sheriff’s Department instructs visitors on the rules of Mt. Pleasant General Sessions Court II on Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Judge Lee Bailey said the court saw more than 400 on the day’s docket. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1499327520607-7Q4DA5FZ5T0RFRMZNB6H/8-26-16MaliyahSparkmanwithFamilyandChristinaWhitehead.jpg Reports Maliah Sparkman, 8, bottom center, poses with her new American Girl doll and her McDowell Elementary School third-grade teacher Christina Whitehead, bottom right. The two are joined by Sparkman’s brother Jordan Cash, 5, bottom left, and their mother Lexus Cash, top left, and grandmother Barbara Crutcher, top right on Aug. 28, 2018. The meeting marked Sparkman’s return to school after being paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1599699182621-OPKHL7NR66BOQ8GELBBI/8-28-16MaSarahTurrntine8withMaliyahSparkman.jpg Reports Maliyah Sparkman, 8, right, writes “I love Mrs. Whitehead,” on the smartboard at McDowell Elementary School joined by classmate Sarah Turpentine, 8, on Aug. 28. 2018. It was Sparkman’s first time in the classroom after being paralyzed in a motor vehicle accident. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1499328324017-JD0RVK5WWXBAIS4HZT3T/image-asset.jpeg Reports Culleoka Unit School Principal Penny Love pets guide-dog-in-training Kaitlyn on the floor of her office Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. Love will train Kaitlyn the basic skills she needs to be a successful guide dog for the next 14 months. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538940959503-1ZFX2NGMGF5J0HUD3V5N/2017-1-19+Culleoka+Unit+School+Puppy+3.jpg Reports Guide-dog-in-training Kaitlyn waits for a treat from her trainer, Culleoka Unit School Principal Penny Love, in the halls of the school on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538941231751-XYEC9MH4X6CUVAV4EXNF/2017-1-19+Culleoka+Unit+School+Puppy+5.jpg Reports Guide-dog-in-training Kaitlyn licks the ear of Davin Farmer, 7, in the halls of Culleoka Unit School on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538941576234-APEHFLQ5B2KTADI2XVUT/2017-1-19+Culleoka+Unit+School+Puppy+2.jpg Reports Chayce Ketchum, 7, receives a kiss from Kaitlyn at Culleoka Unit School after dismissal on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538941718028-HJNDYWT8C9V9196HP1Z0/2017-1-19+Culleoka+Unit+School+Puppy+6.jpg Reports Culleoka Unit School Principal Penny Love carries guide-dog-in-training Kaitlyn through the halls of her school on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1499328999013-QLXNPU7NDMH9Z0Q169VY/image-asset.jpeg Reports Nicole Balcarce, 20, sits with her peers during the commencement ceremony at Columbia State Community on May 6, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1538943482256-YME4WK9R8W879GGSTPHN/2017-5-6+Hollingsworth+Columbia+State+Graduation+01.jpg Reports Megan Ski Hollingsworth, 18, makes her way down the podium after receiving her diploma from Columbia State Community College on May 6, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546797337469-FQOF8XJHMCIRULNL7S3T/2017-1-27%2BJames%2BWoody%2BBarn%2BSanta%2BFe%2B1.jpg Reports James Walker Woody stands in front of his family barn off Santa Fe Pike in Santa Fe, Tenn., on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2017. Woody hired local contractors to straighten the structure's warping wooden frame and replace its 70-year-old rotting weatherboard with aluminum siding. The change marks a new era for the barn built by his father, J.C. Woody, and his mother, Virgie McKey, in the 1940s. (Mike Christen / The Columbia Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546799770113-DMBO790N87VP9FXBHZSR/Screen+Shot+2019-01-06+at+12.12.52+PM.png Reports Contractor Chris Craig of Maury County walks toward the exposed Woody family barn in Santa Fe on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2017. (Staff photo by Mike Christen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1546799927561-2E9M6BUT0GVHUK0AVV77/Screen+Shot+2019-01-06+at+12.12.24+PM.png Reports Contractor Alton Kannady of Maury County drops the aging wood siding from the Woody family barn in Santa Fe on to a pile after removing by the wood by hand on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2017. 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(Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529895468-HBXYJD9ZN2UXWHRTFF5I/2020-9-14+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+01.jpg When the Water Recedes Jennifer Rodriguez stands inside her home a day after a flash flood swept through the rural community of Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738530455856-WMV11O5V3JUWX1J8LRMB/2020-9-14+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+03.jpg When the Water Recedes Travis Jones climbs off the side of a bridge to inspect a car trapped under a pile of debris caught under the structure in Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. 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(Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529935592-XGAVB2ZTAOHHWYPQQ1S4/2020-9-16+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+04.jpg When the Water Recedes John Richards stands on his street in Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. Many of his neighbors have been displaced after a flash flood swept through the community. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529895505-HEN5E69CDDPDVJIKRE97/2020-9-14+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+02.jpg When the Water Recedes A chair sits on the shoulder of Sandy Hook Road in southern Maury County on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, the day after a flash flood swept through the community. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529906654-IRETJWJGOBTWK3JQBIY0/2020-9-14+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+05.jpg When the Water Recedes Jennifer Rodriguez pours out mud and floodwater collected using a water vacuum while cleaning her home in Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. A flash flood swept through her neighborhood a day earlier. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529909504-169ERT7MOC9USEJPGAL9/2020-9-14+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+06.jpg When the Water Recedes Amy Swindle helps clean her sister’s home in Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529917896-4ZB4KW2UB6WQE37UVV8J/2020-9-14+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+18.jpg When the Water Recedes David Swindle uses a garden hose to clean the wood floors of his sister-in-law’s home in Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529912229-SXIIENTXNUPDTEAWDQNT/2020-9-14+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+13.jpg When the Water Recedes Jennifer Rodriguez, right, and her sister Amy Swindle clean Rodriguez’s home on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020 in Sandy Hook, Tenn., a day after a flash flood filled the home with mud and debris. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529942122-CVJCYH8X641T2P8C96N7/2020-9-16+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+08.jpg When the Water Recedes Eddie Ceyrolles and his daughter Lainey Ceyrolles, 8, stand in front of his Sandy Hook, Tenn., home on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. The brick foundation of the home was damaged after a flash flood swept through the community. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529917294-A8VMC3FTTBW390L46T05/2020-9-14+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+14.jpg When the Water Recedes A rests against a tree in Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, after it was swept away by a flash flood that led to more than 20 emergency rescues in the area a day earlier. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529936034-BRJFEVUKPHIMNOXS4ENH/2020-9-16+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+05.jpg When the Water Recedes The belongings of a household are set out to dry in Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529944818-67BLY5DBBCJPIQUUMGY5/2020-9-19+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+Relief+04.jpg When the Water Recedes Madelyn Odem covers recovered belongings with a tarp in the front yard of a home as part of a volunteer relief effort to help those displaced by a recent flash flood in Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529954138-MPTNMSVQCQ15SN9ANDHT/2020-9-19+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+Relief+11.jpg When the Water Recedes Matt Lanega and Josh Popell remove brush from a home damaged by flooding in Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529942631-KOY5G3BF8HVQKP1QM3GV/2020-9-19+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+Relief+02.jpg When the Water Recedes Delvene Runions Kennedy sorts through her belongings severely damaged by a flash flood that swept through her home in Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529938852-ZZGJL1XKMBZBE0CF4ISG/2020-9-19+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+Relief+01.jpg When the Water Recedes Caitlin Gray squeezes water out of a T-shirt as she assists a homeowner in sorting through belongings in Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529946940-Z1PQFJO98117PEG3J8J9/2020-9-19+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+Relief+05.jpg When the Water Recedes President of the Sandy Hook Area Community Club Steve Kelly, far left, and fellow member Charles Gandy, left, receive donated supplies from Amy Wright, right, a community outreach affairs representative for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as part of a relief effort to help those affected by a recent flash flood in Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529953683-TX2TBT40VHAU9WZ5NQ34/2020-9-19+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+Relief+06.jpg When the Water Recedes Residents rest after a day of cleanup following a flash flood that swept through Sandy Hook, Tenn., on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738529903107-6QEX47VUW3757PGUA3XO/2020-9-14+Sandy+Hook+Flooding+04.jpg When the Water Recedes Jennifer Rodriguez stands in the yard of her Sandy Hook, Tenn., home surrounded by belongings on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. A flash flood swept through the community the prior day leading to more than 20 rescues by emergency responders. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) http://www.michael-christen.com/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2025-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701194408-LY46ZLDT2YSTK8WMB235/UAW+Strike+001.JPG The Membership - Make it stand out Jim McGarth, a 41-year veteran of General Motors, leads a group of picketers on U.S. 31 in Spring Hill as the UAW Local 1853 votes on a tentative agreement between the union and General Motors on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701194408-LY46ZLDT2YSTK8WMB235/UAW+Strike+001.JPG The Membership Jim McGarth, a 41-year veteran of General Motors, leads a group of picketers on U.S. 31 in Spring Hill as the UAW Local 1853 votes on a tentative agreement between the union and General Motors on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701194430-68QA9U6HQWK2VG0PC82A/UAW+Strike+002.JPG The Membership Chad Poynor leads a group of General Motors employees during the first full day of picketing in a national strike at the Spring Hill, Tenn., plant on Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701198042-Z3FEZC4VATBVFG1ONEQH/UAW+Strike+003.JPG The Membership A sign inside a pickup truck parked at the entrance to the General Motors plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., reads “GM: We invested in you. Now it’s your turn to invest in US!” on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701197964-KBC0A77T3YH35NOTZK9X/UAW+Strike+004.jpg The Membership UAW Local 1853 Chairman Mike Herron speaks with picketing union members along Nashville Highway in Spring Hill on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701199254-W35TDTFRLXZWHBX37VML/UAW+Strike+005.jpg The Membership UAW member Charles Rochelle, a 43-year employee of General Motors, watches cars pass as he pickets off Nashville Highway in Spring Hill, Tenn., in the fourth week of a national strike of the international car manufacturer on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701207098-BMAH1KS4PVKTHE7A87DX/UAW+Strike+0010.jpg The Membership A UAW picket sign rests on an overpass above U.S. 31 in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Oct. 13, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701204800-QXNROH2DK17HVCUOXLSH/UAW+Strike+009.jpg The Membership Dan Chase pickets on an overpass leading to the south gate of the General Motors plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701201493-2SF2UFS19T2SRLUIRXSY/UAW+Strike+006.jpg The Membership More than 200 UAW workers and those who work for suppliers to the Spring Hill General Motors plant received 20,000 pounds of food at a mobile food bank hosted by The Well Outreach at Lowe’s in Spring Hill, Tenn., Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701202168-O0ZXC6OKA8XSKBXRN50Y/UAW+Strike+007.jpg The Membership The Well Outreach volunteer Ian Meht, 14, hands out garbanzo beans during a mobile food bank in the Spring Hill, Tenn., Lowe’s parking lot on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701207740-B1PC6DMRXNBH2GPXGXFU/UAW+Strike+0011.jpg The Membership A tractor-trailer passes picking signs from UAW Local 1853 in Spring Hill, Tenn., on the final day of the national strike on Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701209904-O9C7LE4W7BUHNDOAECLP/UAW+Strike+0012.jpg The Membership Two UAW Local 1853 members on strike warm up by a barrel fire at a picketing site on U.S. 31 in Spring Hill, Tenn., on the final day of the 40-day strike on Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701211217-QSNC5XO25YNN4GPKGVNT/UAW+Strike+0013.jpg The Membership A UAW member stands at the picket line at the north entrance to the General Motors plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701212663-TCQ58EF0KRPVUFAVA9RZ/UAW+Strike+0014.jpg The Membership Indy Lenoir, a 37-year employee of General Motors, walks the picket line at the north entrance to the General Motors plant in Spring Hill on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701213636-VVLW3EPP4P8P9O5IUSCG/UAW+Strike+0015.jpg The Membership Heather Gillentine, center, a General Motors employee of seven years, stands on an overpass at the southern entrance to the Spring Hill plant waving at passing cars traveling below on U.S. 31 during the second day of a national protest at the Spring Hill, Tenn., plant on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701216013-IM966GQLBF1GVU34KNQR/UAW+Strike+00016.jpg The Membership UAW member Jodie Basset and her horse Prince picket on an overpass leading to the south gate entrance of the General Motors plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701216832-1AC09K0GNNB2HYGHP9BK/UAW+Strike+0017.jpg The Membership UAW Local 1853 members Melanie Emerine and Michelle Learn picket General Motors in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701217934-E5ULCMAORE958036AFPI/UAW+Strike+0018.jpg The Membership UAW Local 1853 member Dave Capraro, a 43-year veteran of General Motors, pickets in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738702172746-YD3IQICPDSOCG7X04EZY/UAW+Strike+0019.jpg The Membership A shadow of a striking UAW Local 1853 member is cast off of Nashville Highway in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701223666-DCA0F1JZC5BLEBGE0GMB/UAW+Strike+0020.jpg The Membership UAW members picket on Nashville Highway in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701233457-IJXUTTL4W6TXKMCTU64U/UAW+Strike+0027.jpg The Membership UAW member Craig Prove, who has spent more than 40 years working for General Motors, pickets on U.S. 31 in Spring Hill, Tenn., as the UAW Local 1853 votes on a tentative agreement between the union and General Motors on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701224307-POQSDOQ6E4HSHL1TJLBB/UAW+Strike+0021.jpg The Membership Troopers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol stand on the US 31 overpass where a UAW member was struck by a car earlier in the day in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. (Mike Chrisen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701226204-O2XFJZNSVQ3GPUOV1273/UAW+Strike+0022.jpg The Membership United Auto Workers member Ashton Smith holds a picket sign at the south entrance to the General Motors plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., at the start of the third week of the national strike of the auto manufacturer on Monday, Sept. 29, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701227221-VSU10CKI6BZO6FPU5BYM/UAW+Strike+0023.jpg The Membership From left, UAW workers Homer Smith, Stanley Smith, Johnny Shearon and Monica Smith wave to passing drivers while standing on an overpass to the south entrance to the General Motors plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., at the start of the third week in the national strike of the auto manufacturer on Monday, Sept. 29, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701230195-PTMJHTZPUI3IPJOZSKZ0/UAW+Strike+0024.jpg The Membership UAW members strike into the night on an overpass overlooking Highway 31 at the south entrance to the General Motors plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701230459-1J4EPJCH4GDCSQ66BZQV/UAW+Strike+0025.jpg The Membership A UAW member takes a break from picketing to make a phone call on an overpass overlooking U.S. 31 at the south entrance to the General Motors plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1738701233086-2F5O2YLLGCGDSF7GDFQ3/UAW+Strike+0026.jpg The Membership UAW member Kim Bond, a more than 40-year General Motors employee, pickets on Nashville Highway in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. 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Mike Christen / The Daily Herald https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470452442-G9PAFV98SEZFTSB4H4O4/2021-5-6+Rose+Ogilvie-McClain+McDowell+Elementary+School+02.jpg The Bell Rings On Rose Ogilvie-McClain, the first Black student to integrate at Maury County Public Schools, breaks into tears while standing inside the first-floor hallway of McDowell Elementary School, weeks before the school's permanent closure, in Columbia, Tenn., on Thursday, May 6, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470405238-NP5X1OBQROAL3JOY4S1E/2021-4-6+McDowell+Elementary+School+01.jpg The Bell Rings On McDowell Elementary School is the oldest operating campus at Maury County Public Schools. The campus is quiet with students out for spring break on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470454309-3Y36FOUUVNAB8IXK8WT8/2021-5-20_McDowell_Elementary_School_12.jpg.jpg The Bell Rings On Ashly Domingo Lopez waits for her bus inside McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Thursday, May 20, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470384840-GUD89J3JBSPZ7V3OFXXA/2019-1-10+Chaz+Molder+Sworn+In+McDowell+008.jpg The Bell Rings On Columbia Mayor Chaz Molder and Vice Mayor Christa Martin meet with students, teachers, and community members at McDowell Elementary School after being sworn into office at the school the two have deep connections with, on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470409652-U4PBER6JW6R7456KASJA/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+04.jpg The Bell Rings On Kindergartener Jeremiah Jensen walks down a flight of steps inside McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470444418-EQUF9DV5OIKX0H3K77X6/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+28.jpg The Bell Rings On Karina Campos Sanchez, 9, and Daniela Cepeta Montoya, 9, work through an assignment at McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470427070-UIQMFELMS9OETA5Y9KED/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+19.jpg The Bell Rings On Students wait to picked up at the end of the school day at McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470426187-ZSTO5IE8GD6O58GUYGHU/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+18.jpg The Bell Rings On Cassidy Dianna Hope waits to picked up at the end of the school day at McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470439099-7ZN0PWVQ4H53HCYR9HR5/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+26.jpg The Bell Rings On Angel Hall works the front office at McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470415984-TZ9N2T7O1WAMMGUATZMT/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+08.jpg The Bell Rings On Kanya Smith, 9, reads a book for an assignment at McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn, on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470388597-UAXWEIMG0RCME2VR1GJ6/2015-10-29+McDowell+Pumpkin.jpg The Bell Rings On Mrs. Mattie King leads a course on carving pumpkins at McDowell Elementary School on Oct. 29, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470449840-ZI8UTKLCK0V162WNU1QI/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+35.jpg The Bell Rings On Light shines through a stairwell leading to the gymnasium inside McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470421178-LRE7C6BIASQATC7EZD9U/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+13.jpg The Bell Rings On Gabriel Letts, 9, is assisted by Monica Sandrell as he works through a mathematics assignment at McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470396987-86BGGX6DIOAPFRZAA9RW/2020-4-27+McDowell+Meals+01.jpg The Bell Rings On Diana Anderson, a food service employee for Maury County Public Schools, hands out meals at McDowell Elementary School in Columbia on Monday, April 27, 2020. Maury County Public Schools has served more than 150,000 meals amid the ongoing shutdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470432611-K6Y9X3FZJNDPL7DG8UTG/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+21.jpg The Bell Rings On Tony Magallon, 8, walks down a stairwell to visit the main office at McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470380496-CMFGCCQCY2C1E3LU7O6W/2018-9-24+Potential+McDowell+Closure+School+Board+Meeting+01.jpg The Bell Rings On McDowell Elementary School fourth-grader Kylee Martin, joined by her father James Martin, asks the board members of Maury County Public Schools not to close down her school during a meeting at Horace O. Porter school and invest in a renovation of the campus on Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470402465-ZCJF95EDRDYH2FZI1LM3/2020-9-8+Maury+Couty+School+Board+Meetinng+Natasha+Hopkins.jpg The Bell Rings On Maury County Public Schools School Board member Natasha Hopkins discusses the future of McDowell Elementary School during a board meeting at Horace O. Porter School in Columbia, Tenn., on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753538326969-JZD6O9O6BPHNNVD6VQP8/2020-9-8+Maury+Couty+School+Board+Meetinng+Christa+Martin+REWORK.jpg The Bell Rings On Columbia Vice Mayor Christa Martin, advocating for the continued investment in McDowell Elementary School, attends a school board meeting in regard to the future of the campus at Horace O. Porter School in Columbia, Tenn., on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470411476-RIDW3D7PQDKOEB2X0A5I/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+05.jpg The Bell Rings On A student-made mural emphasizing diversity rests on display inside a hallway at McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470422533-7WR7J9UTZ2YPY5FNHKU7/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+16.jpg The Bell Rings On McDowell Elementary School music teacher Britney Maksymowich leads a class of kindergartners at the school in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470439055-QNYHJZQ5I4VAPHA6V1Y0/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+23.jpg The Bell Rings On Student artwork decorates the hall of McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753539486835-JKITOT85U3JYJVRX1PN8/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+01+-+REEDIT.jpg The Bell Rings On Darlynn Lopez takes a sip from a water bottle on a short break from her studies inside McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470458216-K3DBDWTOBDSZFE6TB4GQ/2021-5-21_McDowell_Elementary_School_Closing_09.jpg.jpg The Bell Rings On Columbia Fire & Rescue flies an American flag above McDowell Elementary School during a closing ceremony for the school in Columbia Tenn., on Friday, May 22, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470454511-QCD6K81T0LTTSK14MLSI/2021-5-20_McDowell_Elementary_School_13.jpg.jpg The Bell Rings On Brinley Burns leans on her teacher, Jerilyn Crooks, as she waits for the bus to pick her up at the now closed McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Thursday, May 20, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470444176-FXAVXNCM05XZ87ACN98U/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+32.jpg The Bell Rings On A newspaper article chronicling Rose McClain’s first day of school marking the start of school integration in Maury County Public Schools rests on Display at Maury County Public Schools in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 11, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470452207-NDYVIBA46YPS89GYSBC9/2021-5-6+Rose+Ogilvie-McClain+McDowell+Elementary+School+01.jpg The Bell Rings On Rose Ogilvie-McClain, the first Black student to integrate at Maury County Public Schools, breaks into tears while standing inside the first-floor hallway of McDowell Elementary School, weeks before the school's permanent closure, in Columbia, Tenn., on Thursday, May 6, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470449413-FHAJYFEKVYZO9CZFT2QU/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+36.jpg The Bell Rings On More than 100 years old, the McDowell Elementary School bell is the last piece of the school’s original location before it was damaged by a tornado. The bests in front of the school’s West 7th Street location in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470457092-HQ9OCDN8RGW6ZXFX6K4D/2021-5-21_McDowell_Elementary_School_Closing_05.jpg.jpg The Bell Rings On Students at McDowell Elementary School recite the school’s motto during a closing ceremony for the campus on Friday, May 21, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470455486-3R9DGNNTLZ9MIAFWD1NT/2021-5-21_McDowell_Elementary_School_Closing_01.jpg.jpg The Bell Rings On Daniel Marez attends the closing celebration of McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Friday, May 22, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470457953-SFGLZFI8T94ALMOUU2S2/2021-5-21_McDowell_Elementary_School_Closing_08.jpg.jpg The Bell Rings On Teacher Charley Benefield attends the closing celebration of McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Friday, May 21, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470455781-0EGSXPSO869PBCF03EIL/2021-5-21_McDowell_Elementary_School_Closing_03.jpg.jpg The Bell Rings On Students release balloons celebrating the legacy of McDowell Elementary School during a closing ceremony for the campus in Columbia, Tenn., on Friday, May 21, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470456845-YTD514SWCI60DYXMFZD3/2021-5-21_McDowell_Elementary_School_Closing_04.jpg.jpg The Bell Rings On Students at McDowell Elementary School ring the school’s historic bell during the campus’ closing ceremony in Columbia, Tenn., on Friday, May 21, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470453284-Y4Q6EISV6H2E60ER1Q8Y/2021-5-20_McDowell_Elementary_School_04.jpg.jpg The Bell Rings On Fourth-grade teacher Amy Burnett writes “You already have wings. All you have to do is fly!” on the back wall of her classroom at McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Thursday, May 20, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753539837079-LTB3ZJ0LUR9LIBENRXTX/2022-4-6_McDowell_Elementary_School_07-REEDIT.jpg The Bell Rings On McDowell Elementary School stands empty along West 7th Street in Columbia, Tenn, on April 6, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470453500-8NKJH6JB2OTNUVRTI0EM/2021-5-20_McDowell_Elementary_School_11.jpg.jpg The Bell Rings On Tony Magallon, 8, draws inside the McDowell Elementary School gymnasium as he waits for his bus to pick him up from the Columbia, Tenn., School on Thursday, May 20, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470392096-3TRQLPD1LWHRM2JJM4GD/2019-6-20+McDowell+Read+to+Be+Ready+03.jpg The Bell Rings On Teacher Lauren Hyatt reads with John Brooks, 7, as he recites his essay during a Read to be Ready camp hosted at McDowell Elementary School on Thursday, June 19, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753539272869-RVLIVHDG4T4Z6728OMRI/2019-6-20+McDowell+Read+to+Be+Ready+01+REEDIT.jpg The Bell Rings On John Brooks, 8, shows off his new superhero outfit during a Read to Be Ready camp hosted at McDowell Elementary School on Thursday, June 19, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470433117-7IAYE8TOICAU7VWFGDWI/2021-4-19+McDowell+Elementary+School+22.jpg The Bell Rings On Backpacks line the halls of McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, April 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cb8490e4b0812dea04f2a8/1753470392328-F5XZYS9OLJD1E07OSLUW/2019-6-20+McDowell+Read+to+Be+Ready+05.jpg The Bell Rings On Colton Powell, 7, draws himself as a superhero during a Read to be Ready camp hosted at McDowell Elementary School on Thursday, June 19, 2019.