Maybe you’ve heard what often happens with the best of plans. I intended for this last Musings for 2021 to include folks’ memories from past New Years Days or Eves. Few were inspired to share, and then I received a good late Christmas holiday post. When I don’t have quite enough roast left over for a meal, I often turn it into hash, so that’s what I’m calling this piece, Madison County Winter Holiday Hash. It contains some memories plus some facts from the Historical Commission’s two volumes of local history.

The local Madisonville Police Department, specifically Chief Herbert Gilbert, received unwarranted scrutiny from some members of the public for an incident that occurred far from home last week when a TikTok video surfaced that featured a police officer from Madisonville, Tennessee arresting two men in a Waffle House restaurant.

St. Joseph Health is temporarily closing the monoclonal antibody infusion center located at St.