Austin Peay Department of Art and Design kicks off Visiting Artist Lecture Series with Linda Lopez
August 27, 2015
Clarksville, TN – To kick off this season’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series, the Austin Peay State University Department of Art and Design is bringing in renowned artist Linda Lopez.
Lopez will be discussing her work as a sculptural ceramicist at 7:00pm, Thursday, September 3rd, in the Trahern Building.
Linda Lopez
Austin Peay State University place to be for historic 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
August 25, 2015
Clarksville, TN – On a cold February morning in 1979, a massive crowd gathered on a remote hill in Washington State to watch the day suddenly descend into darkness. For several seconds, no one spoke.
“It’s eerie; it’s getting black here. Darkness at noon,” ABC News Correspondent Jules Bergman said during live coverage of the total solar eclipse. “People are hushed in what seems almost like a ritual thing that mankind has been silenced by, in awe, since the beginning of civilization.”
Austin Peay State University Observatory.
Last Concert of Summer Liberty Live Series August 7th
August 5, 2015
Clarksville, TN – The Liberty Live summer concert series returns for the final concert of the series at Liberty Park on Friday, August 7th! The last concert in the series will feature the alternative rock group, Darling Parade.
Admission is free but concessions will be available for purchase. The show is set to begin at 6:30pm at Liberty Park.
Darling Parade performs at the next Liberty Park Live Concert, August 7th.
Clarksville’s Customs House Museum August 2015 Exhibits and Activities
July 31, 2015
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is located in historic downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. Come explore an entire city block featuring large gallery spaces filled with fine art, science and history.
Some of the events in August at the Museum are: Norman Rockwell: The Man Behind the Canvas, In the Footsteps of Alvin York, F. Luis Mora, Diane Davich-Craig: Paintings & Ponderings and Art & Lunch Film.
The Expats
CMCSS Makes Great Progress
July 30, 2015
Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Department of Education released district-level results from the 2015 Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP), which show strong gains in high school and significant gains in grades 3-8 math.
Clarksville-Montgomery County Schools have experienced improved achievement across almost every content and grade level, meeting 10 of 11 achievement targets.
Last Concert of Summer Liberty Live Series August 7th
July 24, 2015
Clarksville, TN – The Liberty Live summer concert series returns for the final concert of the series at Liberty Park on Friday, August 7th! The last concert in the series will feature the alternative rock group, Darling Parade.
Admission is free but concessions will be available for purchase. The show is set to begin at 6:30pm at Liberty Park.
Darling Parade performs at the next Liberty Park Live Concert, August 7th.
Wes Sumner Joins Planters Bank Commercial Team
July 23, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Planters Bank welcomes Wes Sumner to its commercial banking division as assistant vice president.
A native Clarksvillian, Sumner received a B.B.A. in finance from the University of Memphis and an M.B.A. from Mississippi State University. For the past nine years, he worked for Regions Bank in Knoxville, Nashville and Clarksville, where he was a branch manager.
Wes Sumner
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church welcomes new Priest Stephen Wolf
July 15, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Stephen Joseph Wolf has recently been appointed to serve as parish priest for Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Clarksville. Father Wolf will assume his new role in July.
A native of Nashville, Father Steve brings to his flock a varied background of life experience. The second of eight sons, he and has worked as a janitor, launderer, desk clerk, landscaper, accountant and priest.
Clarksville’s Immaculate Conception Catholic Church welcomes new Priest Stephen Wolf.
APSU student spending summer as intern at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
June 27, 2015
Clarksville, TN – While most college students spend their summers pool- or beachside, Austin Peay State University chemistry major Shelia Johnson will be taking advantage of a unique opportunity by learning alongside some of the region’s brightest medical minds.
A chemistry major planning to pursue PharmD/PhD degrees upon graduation, Johnson is in her second summer as an Aspirnaut summer research intern at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, TN. [Read more]
Clarksville-Montgomery County has four Graduate from Leadership Middle Tennessee
June 22, 2015
Thirty Two Graduate from Regional Leadership Program
Nashville, TN – Thirty two community and business leaders from Middle Tennessee have graduated from Leadership Middle Tennessee, Inc., a regional leadership institute.
The 2015 class is from the 10-county area which includes Cheatham County, Davidson County, Dickson County, Maury County, Montgomery County, Robertson County, Rutherford County, Sumner County, Williamson County and Wilson County.
(Top L to R) Deborah Varallo, chair of Leadership Middle Tennessee; Diane Berty, Vice President, Tennessee Independent Colleges & Universities Association; Elizabeth Black, Communications Director, Montgomery County Government; Sherryl Byrd, Vice President for Student Affairs, Austin Peay State University; Mark A. Kelly, COO/Broker, Keller Williams Realty–The Air Assault Team.
