The Portland Sun

12/27/2025

Janet Clazzy directed "Merry Carpenters Christmas" at the Temple Theatre on Friday, Dec. 5.

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12/27/2025

OPINION: Clearly, President Trump could use a visit from a few ghosts to help teach him empathy and compassion. Unwilling to showcase any grace, he chooses personal greed and reveling in the death of another instead of behavior fitting of our leader.

Although Middle Tennessee has yet to have a picturesque winter wonderland descend upon us, we are well on our way to Christmas and all the joys the season brings. The stores are bustling, people are decorating and nearly everyone should find happiness and hope this time of the year. Of course, as wi...

12/27/2025

OPINION: You can tell Christmas is near: crime scenes Chicago to New York are now roped off with festive green and red tape. Here is my annual, hopeful look back.

You can tell Christmas is near: crime scenes Chicago to New York are now roped off with festive green and red tape. Here is my annual, hopeful look back. 1. That everyone stays safe this Christmas, both from crime and from dinner table conversations with family. My Druncle Mac used to drink stuff th...

12/26/2025

I saw a guy wearing a shirt that had a semicolon on the front. I walked over to tell him that it was a cool shirt and there had to be a meaning behind it. He thanked me for asking and said it was a su***de prevention shirt.

Sem-i-co-lon: A punctuation mark (;) indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses, that is more pronounced than that indicated by a comma. We all know what a semicolon is. It is pretty underrated when it comes to writing, and that is okay. As an English teacher told me when I was actually....

12/26/2025

Ms. Cheap provides her money-saving New Year's Resolutions.

With the new year comes a clean slate and a gnawing push to take on some worthy resolutions for making the most of our money - and our time - in the year ahead. Here are some of my goals for 2026: • Find more ways to be cheap to be generous. Ideas include volunteering more in the new year, lookin...

12/26/2025

Times have changed. Today there’s not much market for beaver pelts and the once-prized rodents are considered destructive nuisances. The TWRA has declared open season on them, along with such undesirables as coyotes, armadillos, groundhogs and skunks.

In centuries past, beavers gnawed their way into American history.

12/25/2025

If you would like to meet these or other adoptable pets at Safe Place for Animals, visit safeplaceforanimals.com/ or call (615) 451-7342.

Safe Place for Animals (SPA) is a 501c3 nonprofit, no-kill, animal rescue shelter and pet adoption center, with a low-cost veterinary clinic and grooming salon located in Gallatin, Tennessee.

12/25/2025

Sending Christmas cards is getting to be so 20th century. The tradition seems destined for the holiday scrap heap with tinsel trees and popcorn garland.

Sending Christmas cards is getting to be so 20th century. The tradition seems destined for the holiday scrap heap with tinsel trees and popcorn garland. My wife and I mail fewer every year. I think we’re down to a handful of elderly aunts and uncles who cling to the ghost of Christmas Past. It’s...

12/24/2025

Words still matter. I’ve said that before. It continues to be true. I say this because our president is teaching our children how to behave like disrespectful, childish, boorish, whiny, unwelcome humans who would never be allowed to visit my home.

Dear Editor, Words still matter. I’ve said that before. It continues to be true. I say this because our president is teaching our children how to behave and speak like disrespectful, childish, boorish, whiny, unwelcome humans who would never be allowed to visit my home. Our president has started t...

12/24/2025

A Lebanon Bible study group continued its Christmas tradition on Dec. 20 by giving a significant amount of money as a Christmas offering to a waitress in Portland.

The Christmas tradition of a Lebanon nondenominational Bible class blessing a waitress with a hefty cash gift notched its 10th anniversary on Dec. 20 at the Top of the Ridge restaurant in Portland. Their random recipient was 27-year-old Kaylee Brooks whose reaction to the $6,000 handed to her in a s...

12/24/2025

KICKOFF WITH CASEY - DEC. 24, 2025
Main Street Media of Tennessee sports reporter Casey Patrick is back to bring you the latest in college football news in this episode of Kickoff with Casey.