Residents in the master planned community of Providence and surrounding areas are running and walking to support the Mt. Juliet Help Center by participating in the inaugural Del Webb Providence HomeRun 5K race and 1-Mile fun walk on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 8:30 a.m.

By BEN DUDLEY
The Wilson Post

A case that was first ruled as a hit-and-run incident 40 years ago has been re-opened by authorities who have learned information that may mean the death of a young Lebanon man was not an accident. 

The body of Charles Ragland “Butch” Cooksey Jr. was found early in the morning on Saturday, June 14, 1969, on Highway 70. He was 19 and authorities investigating at the time ruled his death as a hit-and-run.

Event raises funds for cancer research

The Shamrock Society’s 7th Annual “Low Country Boil!” will be held on Saturday, Oct. 3, at the “top of the hill” in Southfork Subdivision at 2212 Cartel Drive in Lebanon beginning at 6 pm. 

From Post staff reports

The U.S. may have been in a recession since last year, but tourists visiting Wilson County in 2008 apparently did not get the memo about it because travel-related expenditures increased more than 5 percent from 2007.

According to figures released by Ricky Rodriguez, director of the Wilson County Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development, travel-related expenditures in Wilson County in 2008, the latest year for which figures are available, were $102.77 million, a 5.31 percent increase from the ’07 amount of $97 million.

By JENNIFER HORTON
The Wilson Post

Voters are set to go to the polls on Thursday to cast a ballot in a referendum on whether to increase the county wheel tax by $25 to fund a new Lebanon High School and to purchase property for a new Watertown High School.