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Morning Notes for Nov. 3: City Hall, Schools, Around town
Nov. 3: 3 items from Murfreesboro's city hall, police, schools and county, each linked to the official source.
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Buc-ee's
Buc-ee's Murfreesboro opens Nov. 16 with 250-plus jobs
Buc-ee's opens its Murfreesboro travel center at 6 a.m. Monday, Nov. 16, at 3355 Elam Road: 74,000 square feet, 120 gas pumps and more than 250 jobs.
Jobs
Murfreesboro jobless rate falls to 2.8% in September
Murfreesboro's unemployment rate fell to 2.8% in September from 3.1% a year earlier, below Tennessee's 3.3%. But about 440 fewer residents had jobs.
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Morning Notes for Oct. 31: City Hall, Around town
Oct. 31: 4 items from Murfreesboro's city hall, police, schools and county, each linked to the official source.
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Morning Notes for Oct. 30: City Hall, Around town
Oct. 30: 6 items from Murfreesboro's city hall, police, schools and county, each linked to the official source.
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Morning Notes for Oct. 29: City Hall, Around town
Oct. 29: 6 items from Murfreesboro's city hall, police, schools and county, each linked to the official source.
Daily Debrief
Daily Debrief for Oct. 28: City Hall, Around town
Oct. 28: 4 items from Murfreesboro's city hall, police, schools and county, each linked to the official source.
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Morning Notes for Oct. 28: City Hall, Around town
Oct. 28: 6 items from Murfreesboro's city hall, police, schools and county, each linked to the official source.
Halloween
MTSU hosts free trick-or-treating Wednesday, Thursday
Kids 12 and under get into Wednesday's MTSU football game free, with trick-or-treating on the concourse, then Greek Row hands out candy 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday.
MTSU
MTSU blood drive Nov. 2-4 open to all, donors get tickets
MTSU's 100 Miles of Hope blood drive runs 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 2-4 at Campus Rec. Donors get a T-shirt, a $10 gift card and four football tickets.
Daily Debrief
Daily Debrief for Oct. 27: City Hall, Today and this week, Around town
Oct. 27: 4 items from Murfreesboro's city hall, police, schools and county, each linked to the official source.
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Morning Notes for Oct. 27: City Hall, Schools, Today and this week, Around town
Oct. 27: 5 items from Murfreesboro's city hall, police, schools and county, each linked to the official source.
Daily Debrief
Daily Debrief for Oct. 26: City Hall, Today and this week, Around town
Oct. 26: 4 items from Murfreesboro's city hall, police, schools and county, each linked to the official source.
Trash and recycling
Murfreesboro leaf pickup runs through Jan. 31: the rules
Murfreesboro's free curbside leaf vacuum service runs through Jan. 31. Rake loose leaves to the curb, never into the street, and keep limbs out of the pile.
Fire
Firefighters pull man, dog, cat from Kinsale Avenue fire
Murfreesboro firefighters used a thermal imaging camera to find a man trapped upstairs in a burning Kinsale Avenue home Oct. 15. He, a dog and a cat were rescued.
Rutherford County Schools
Walter Hill, Holloway staff among 6 honored by county schools
Rutherford County Schools picked 5 Difference Award winners from 417 nominations, 2 at Murfreesboro schools, and named a Smyrna school nurse its Nurse of the Year.