If you missed The Runaways’ album release show, find the disc and commence kicking yourself.Cookeville’s own folk quintet, The Runaways, dropped their 11-track debut album, “West Fifth”, at the Backdoor Playhouse on Jan. 28. to a sardine-packed audience of friends, family and newly hooked hipsters. The Runaways are Nate Dodson, […]

Despite the fact that Tech Student Government Association members did not attend Monday’s rally, SGA said that it is seeking ways to help students understand the Tennessee Board of Regents current plans.”I didn’t make it [to the rally] because I had too many test this week,” SGA President David Horton […]

Tech police arrested John Kraemer, 20, on charges of aggravated burglary on Feb. 2.According to the Tech police report filed by arresting officer Sergeant Douglas Fowler, Bethany Ellingwood returned to her dorm room in New Hall with a friend to find Kraemer inside. Ellingwood filed a complaint with Hall Director […]

The School of Agriculture signed a lease to acquire the Oakley Farm in Livingston, Tenn. The deal, signed on January 1, provides the school with a near 2,000 acres and one of the biggest cattle farms in the state. Pat Bagley, the dean of the School of Agriculture, has big […]

The Intrepid Traveler Coffee Bar, located at 121 W. Broad St. in Cookeville, offers musicians, poets, artists and anyone interested, a chance to perform from 7 to 9 p.m. every Friday to a live audience. “It’s something we enjoy and everyone else can enjoy, too,” owner René Albert said. “It […]

Despite seeing attendance double from a previous rally, demonstrators at Monday’s “funeral for higher education in Tennessee” received no face time from Governor Phil Bredesen. Nor did the rally preceding the State of the State receive much attention from local print media. According to the participants, the rally did, however, […]

The The Institute of Industrial Engineers student chapter received the Best Chapter in the Region award at the regional conference they attended last weekend at Clemson University.SMAC recently awarded IIE funding to participate in a regional conference where students took first place. IIE was awarded $2,150 to help cover the […]

Prepare for campus to be crowded with business suits and briefcases as February is career fair month. Career Services has prepared two on-campus career fairs that follow Tuesday’s Nashville Career Fair. The Nashville fair was an education and general fair. The state fairgrounds were divided into two exhibit halls. The […]

A free showing of the film “Until the Violence Stops” will be held at 7p.m. on Feb. 26 at the Backdoor Playhouse with a discussion session to follow.”Until the Violence Stops” profiles playwright Eve Ensler and the growth of her play, “The Vagina Monologues” into an international movement called V-Day […]