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Chris Smith

Chris Smith is editor-in-chief of Clarksville Now. He has been a trusted professional journalist for over 30 years, with the last 27 years here in Clarksville, TN. You can reach him by email at csmith@clarksvillenow.com or call 931-648-7720.

Obituaries
8 years ago
Frank Byron Broadbent

Frank Byron Broadbent, age 84, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Obituaries
8 years ago
James Ray Melton

James Ray Melton, age 71, of Clarksville, passed away Tuesday, October 9, 2018, at Skyline Medical Center.

Crime
8 years ago
Gov. Haslam grants TN death row inmate reprieve from execution

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the state of Tennessee not to proceed with plans to execute Edmund Zagorski by lethal injection after it refused his request to die in the electric chair.

Business
8 years ago
Social Security checks will grow in 2019 as inflation rises

Following a stretch of low inflation, the cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for 2019 is the highest in seven years.

Military
8 years ago
Remains of TN sailor killed at Pearl Harbor during WWII identified

Gov. Haslam has declared a day of mourning and ordered flags at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Friday, October 12 in honor of Campbell’s ultimate sacrifice.

Obituaries
8 years ago
Victoria Wheeler

Victoria Marie Wheeler, age 57, of Clarksville, passed away on Monday October 8, 2018.

Crime
8 years ago
Shelter: Over 100 dogs rescued from Tennessee ‘puppy mill’

The shelter says the dogs had been living in darkness and their own filth.

Obituaries
8 years ago
Alex “Gene” Frost

Alex Eugene Frost age 82 of Clarksville, TN passed away Saturday, October 6, 2018.

News
8 years ago
Car strikes farm tractor on Kentucky road, killing tractor driver

The tractor went off the shoulder of the road and into a ditch.

Crime
8 years ago
TBI: Escaped jail inmates on Most Wanted List captured

Dewayne Halfacre, 43, and Jonathan Baxter, 28, assaulted a guard at the Rutherford County jail and scaled a razor wire fence early Wednesday.