All High Schools Hosting Open House Tonight
Montgomery County, TN – Clarksville Montgomery County School System’s high schools are inviting parents to an open house from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.
This is a great opportunity for parents to learn more about their student’s school and academic experience.
Women’s Equality Day
Clarksville, TN – On August 26th, 2011 Women’s Equality Day will be held at the Montgomery County Archives from 10:00am to 4:00pm. There will be remarks from Peggy Steed Knight at 11:00am.
The Montgomery County Archives are located at 350 Pageant Lane, Suite 101D, Veterans Plaza, Clarksville. When attending, please use the Crossland Avenue entrance.
New Campaign Honors Former Physics Chairs Mayfield, Sears and Wood-Boercker
Clarksville, TN – A little more than 50 years ago, professor Melburn Mayfield founded the physics department at Austin Peay State University. Only a handful of students at first made their way into these classrooms on campus, but with the help of two distinguished professors – physics chairs Sara Wood-Boercker and Dr. Robert Sears – Mayfield’s small labor of love grew into the largest undergraduate physics department in Tennessee.
Last Saturday, friends and alumni gathered at the APSU Morgan University Center to celebrate Mayfield’s 90th birthday and to unveil a new campaign – The Mayfield, Wood-Boercker, Sears Endowment – that will allow the physics department to prosper for years to come. The endowment, funded by private donations, will provide scholarships for deserving, hardworking physics students.
State Rep. Joe Pitts honors former APSU Physics Department Chair Mel Mayfield with a proclamation recognizing Mayfield’s 90th birthday. (Photo by Nikki Loos Peterson/APSU)
FDNY chief, highest-raking firefighter to survive the collapse of the World Trade Center to speak at APSU
Clarksville, TN – On the morning of September 11th, 2001, Richard “Pitch” Picciotto answered the call heard around the world. In minutes he was at ground zero of the worst terrorist attack on American soil, acting boldly to save innocent lives as the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center began to burn—and then to buckle.
Already a veteran of terrorist attacks, Picciotto was present fighting a similar battle after the World Trade Center Bombing in 1993. Again inside the North Tower, where he found himself years earlier, he focused his concentration on the rescue efforts at hand. But it was there in the smoky stairwells that he heard and felt the South Tower collapse. He then made the call for firemen and rescue workers to evacuate, while he stayed behind with a skeleton team of men to assist a group of disabled and inform civilians in their struggle to evacuate the inferno.
Richard "Pitch" Picciotto
Fix a Pitty or a Kitty this Saturday
Clarksville, TN – On Saturday, August 27th from 8:00am to 2:00pm, the Humane Society of Clarksville-Montgomery County will be utilizing a grant to provide our community with very reduced spay-neuter rates for Cats and Pit Bulls (or mixes) only.
If you know any families that are struggling with caring for an unaltered Cat or Pit Bull. Please educate them on this one day opportunity!
Nashville State Community College to plant satellite Campus in Clarksville
School plans expansion to former Saturn dealership
Clarksville, TN – Members of the Montgomery County delegation and area education leaders announced plans Wednesday for a Nashville State Community College satellite campus in Clarksville.
“One of the best ways we can increase job opportunities in our community is through increased access to higher education,” said State Representative Joe Pitts. “Nashville State will add another lane to the higher education bridge in Clarksville and Montgomery County.”
On Monday, the Executive Subcommittee of the State Building Commission approved the first step for Nashville State to obtain the former Saturn dealership on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard, which occupies nearly 18 acres in North Clarksville. State and local officials have been working for years on a deal to bring Nashville State to the city. [Read more]
Night time blast sends north bound lane of the Red River bridge plummeting
Clarksville, TN – Bell & Associates Construction blasted out the remaining concrete columns and the roadway support beams on the north bound lane of the Red River Bridge in a tremendous explosion early on the morning of Wednesday, August 24th, 2011. The explosion took place at 12:02am during which time traffic on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard was completely shutdown.
The demolition was handled by explosives technicians from Engineered Explosive Services. The process first involved cutting almost completely through the massive steel support beams, then placing shaped cutting charges to finish the job. The support columns had been pre-drilled to allow explosive charges to be placed inside. Once that was complete, all equipment located on or near the bridge had to be removed. Then after a final safety check, it was time for the blast.
Boat Safety Course to be held on Saturday, August 27th
Written by Tim Cash
Clarksville, TN – The Montgomery County Conservation Club is pleased to announce a Boating Safety Course presented by the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
Coast Guard Auxiliary will be giving a boater’s safety class Saturday August 27th, 2011, 9:00am in the Montgomery County Conservation Club House located just off Seven Mile Ferry Road. The class will last approximately 6 hours (9:00am – 3:00pm).
New Observatory Opens at APSU Farm
Clarksville, TN – Shortly before sunset last Friday evening, a large crowd of stargazers gathered at the Austin Peay State University Environmental Education Center off Pickens Road, hoping to get a good look at the moon or possibly Mars.
The center, also known as the APSU Farm, sits only a few miles from Governor’s Square Mall and is somewhat affected by that area’s light pollution, but as of Friday, it has become the one of the best spots in Clarksville for astronomers to congregate.
That’s because, next to the barns and hay bales, APSU has opened a new observatory with a retractable dome and a 20-inch Ritchey-Chretien telescope, featuring the same optical design as NASA’s Hubble Telescope.
New APSU Observatory offically opens.
Come Out to Movies in the Park this Friday
Clarksville, TN – Join Clarksville Parks and Recreation on Friday, August 26th, at Heritage Park Soccer Fields for the Movies in the Park event, featuring the 1993 American comedy-drama, “The Sandlot,” which is rated PG.
Movies in the Park
