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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Lifeguard Kara Preston patrols the Muletown Rec health and wellness center pool during the first day of the aquatics center’s reopening in the wake of a grassroots initiative to save the pools from permanently closing. in Columbia, Tenn., on Friday, Feb. 27, 2020. (Mike Christen / The Columbia Daily Herald)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Katie Seaton, 9, trains on the high bar at Discovery Gymnastics in Columbia, Tenn., Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald)
Maury County Mayor Charlie Norman stands outside his home in Maury County, Tenn., on Wednesday, November 3, 2021. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald)
Worldwide Stages Production Assistant Josiah Vik lifts a set of speakers into place within a rehearsal space dedicated to preparation for stadium-level performances at the campus located in Spring Hill, Tenn., on Friday, April 15, 2022. (Mike Christen / The Daily Herald)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)