by DANNY WADE  |  Senior Editor dwade@hchronicle.net   Two Humboldt firefighters received promotions last week after the Humboldt Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved the vote with no opposition. Mayor Marvin Sikes presented Fire Chief Greg Lencioni’s request to promote Alex Trudo and Jonathan Tibbs from lieutenants to captains. In Chief Lencioni’s letter…

    by DANNY WADE  |  Senior Editor dwade@hchronicle.net   The city of Humboldt is literally about to flush $2-million down the drain. Humboldt is one of many Tennessee cities or counties to receive grants to do infrastructure upgrades to water and wastewater systems. Last Friday, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) announced…

by DANNY WADE  |  Senior Editor dwade@hchronicle.net The Rotary Club of Humboldt is always seeking ways to better the Humboldt community. One way the club has done this in the past is by sponsoring a Humboldt Jr./Sr. High School student to attend Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA). This year, the club is thrilled to be…

  by DANNY WADE  |  Senior Editor dwade@hchronicle.net For the first time in almost three decades, the Humboldt Fire Department has a new fire chief. Greg Lencioni was named fire chief on April 10 when the Humboldt Board of Mayor and Aldermen unanimously voted to offer him the position. Former Fire Chief Chester B. Owens…

by DANNY WADE  |  Senior Editor dwade@hchronicle.net History was made last week for the city of Three Way when a new mayor was sworn into office. Mayor Mary Ann Tremblay is Three Way’s first female mayor in the city’s almost 25 years of existence. Mayor Tremblay takes over for the late Three Way Mayor Larry…

by DANNY WADE  |  Senior Editor dwade@hchronicle.net After much thought and planning, a Humboldt educator has been memorialized by having a library named in her honor. The late Ann Simmons Williams, who was principal of East End Elementary School for many years, now has the school library named in her honor—Ann S. Williams Library and…

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by DANNY WADE  |  Senior Editor dwade@hchronicle.net When the Humboldt Board of Mayor and Aldermen met on Monday, April 24, the agenda was short. Other than approving four accounts payable and accounts receivable reports, and the March fire report, only two other items were up for vote. The first item was discussion on the list…

    by DANNY WADE  |  Senior Editor dwade@hchronicle.net Before the newspaper could even go to press last week, which had a front page article on John Williams not accepting the fire chief position, a new chief was hired. During the Humboldt Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting on Monday, April 10, Humboldt Fire Department’s…