Williamson County Schools ranked first with 96.573 percent of its students scoring proficient or advanced, and Newport City Schools was runner-up with 95.966 percent. The Tennessee Department of Education also released Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program test results in grades 3-8 in math, reading and social studies. When it comes to reading, Murfreesboro City Schools had 54.606 scoring proficient or advanced to rank 29th in the state. Williamson County was first in reading at 77.051 percent proficient or advanced, and Maryville City Schools was runner up at 73.209 percent. Read More...

FRANKLIN, TN - Offering yet another sign that the Westhaven brand is among the strongest development projects in Middle Tennessee, work is under way on a clubhouse for members of the private golf course adjacent to the still-growing subdivision.

Investors at Westhaven Golf Club are building a two-story clubhouse that has been promised to duffers there since the 18-hole course opened in the summer of 2009. That project was delayed by the recession, but membership has grown steadily in the face of household cuts in discretionary spending.

With every shelf pin-neat and jammed with food and its walls decorated with local history, the new McEwen Whole Foods store opened this week — after nearly four years of waiting.

If all goes well, diners, shoppers and residents won’t have to wait as long to see even more development here. Hailed since 2007 as Franklin’s next mixed-use hub, McEwen developers at Southern Land Co. say they have managed to ride out a national recession that left them scuttling plans and waiting for the economy to improve before moving forward. The plan to build a Whole Foods store, which is 40,000 square feet and cost nearly $3 million, was first announced nearly four years ago, but construction began in earnest only last year.

Westhaven - FRANKLIN, TN — Five model homes are for sale in Westhaven as homebuilders embark on the creation of a new group of models.

Westhaven - Franklin, TN - The St. Jude Dream Home house, in the Westhaven community in Franklin, will be open for free tours on Saturday and also will be open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and noon-5 p.m. Sundays through June 19.

Westhaven - Franklin, TN - Six gardens in Westhaven will open their gates for tours Friday, May 13 through Sunday, May 15. Barbara Wise, floriculture director for Westhaven, says though all are considered courtyard gardens, they range in size and offerings.

Hillsboro School's fundraiser Hillstock, is scheduled for 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday at Hillsboro Rec Center. New this year, students from Grassland and Pearre Creek schools will participate.

FRANKLIN — Despite the utter collapse of the housing market and the worst economy since the Great Depression, property values in Williamson County are up an estimated 10 percent from their 2006 appraised values, according to County Assessor Dennis Anglin.