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Hi Clarksville! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How an 11-year-old helped save her grandmother from a house fire
  • Have you seen this missing 74-year-old Clarksville man with dementia?
  • New APSU scholarship honors a family deeply rooted in Clarksville

Also on today's calendar: Free Bra Fittings to Support Breast Cancer Awareness and 10 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a belt that is made of watches? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Hot, with a high of 94 and low of 72 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Friday: A shower and thunderstorm, temps: high: 80, low: 63.
  • Saturday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 75 and low of 62 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. 11-year-old girl reports fire to 911, Clarksville Police rescue grandmother from burning home (clarksvillenow.com) — Emergency crews in Clarksville rushed to a Skyview Circle home Wednesday after an 11-year-old girl called 911 about a fire that trapped her sleeping grandmother. Clarksville Police officers pulled the woman out through a window, firefighters quickly knocked down the flames, and the grandmother was taken to the hospital with smoke inhalation and minor burns while the Red Cross assists the displaced family.
   

2. MISSING PERSON ALERT: Clarksville Police looking for 74-year-old with dementia (clarksvillenow.com) — Clarksville police are urgently asking for your help to find 74-year-old Harry Steven Bratton Sr., who has dementia and disappeared from a local care facility Thursday evening. His phone location showed travel along I-24 through Nashville and he may be in a hunter-green Jeep Cherokee with Georgia plates, possibly with his wife. If you see him, call 911 immediately.
   

3. APSU Alumna Tammy Cunningham Establishes Family Endowment (clarksvilleonline.com) — A new Tom Cunningham Family Endowment at Austin Peay will support business students who graduated from Montgomery County high schools, reinforcing the long connection between APSU and Clarksville. Funded by alumna Tammy Cunningham in honor of her late husband, the scholarship favors juniors and seniors rooted in the community, while celebrating the family's decades of civic, business, and charitable work across Clarksville.
   

4. Amare Montessori recertifies at Platinum Level through CMC Green Certification Program (clarksvillenow.com) — Amare Montessori in Clarksville has earned Platinum recertification in the Clarksville-Montgomery County Green Certification Program, highlighting its deep focus on environmental stewardship. Students from preschool through ninth grade learn outdoors, raise butterflies and vegetables, care for animals, and run small businesses that reinvest in their school, showing how conservation and hands-on learning are woven into daily life on the Miller Road campus.
   

5. APSU Volleyball Faces Abilene Christian, Tarleton State in UAC Play (clarksvilleonline.com) — Austin Peay volleyball heads into a busy United Athletic Conference stretch with a Thursday road match at Abilene Christian and a Saturday afternoon showdown against Tarleton State back home in Clarksville. The Govs bring strong national stats in serving and defense, with senior Reagan Anderson among the country's leaders in aces and digs. Local fans can catch a first-ever meeting with Tarleton on Saturday.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time. (Thank you Martin L. for sending it in!)
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