The Manchester Street Department reported to police that a light has been stolen from the Old Tullahoma Hwy. and Belmont Road intersection.
The light was a yellow LED flashing light with a small solar panel on top. The purpose of this light was to slow traffic approaching the dangerous intersection.
If you have any information related to this theft, please contact the Manchester Police Department Crime Investigation Division at 931.728.2099.

Motlow State Community College recently nominated two outstanding students, Jacqueline Bumbalough, from Sparta, and Lucas Patterson, from McMinnville, as members of the 2016 All-Tennessee Academic Team.
The 13 community colleges across the state recognized 26 outstanding students at the 2016 All-Tennessee Academic Team luncheon in Nashville with college presidents and state legislators.
The honorees, all members of Phi Theta Kappa honor society, were awarded with special medallions and legislative declarations to recognize their leadership, academic accomplishments and service to their communities.
Phi Theta Kappa, community college presidents, and community college state associations sponsor All-State Community College Academic Team ceremonies in 38 participating states. Phi Theta Kappa is an honors society at two-year institutions across the world.
Students from the 38 participating states nominated to the All-USA Community College Academic Team are automatically named to the All-State Community College Academic Teams. Ranking on the All-State Community College Academic Team is generally determined by the student’s score in the national competition.

Bonnaroo Works Fund (BWF), the charitable arm of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, continues to accept online applications for the 2016 grant cycle. The deadline to apply is March 15, 2016, and applications can be found at bonnarooworksfund.org
Grant winners will be announced in May 2016.
The Fund is dedicated to supporting local and regional organizations that advance the arts, education and the environment, with a focus on local reinvestment.
“The annual grant awards have had a significant impact on organizations with a wide range of important missions, and we encourage qualifying nonprofits to apply and share their goals and
needs with us,” said Nina Miller, BWF executive director.”
Bonnaroo Works Fund, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, was founded in 2009 as the charitable division of Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Its mission is to support national and regional non-profit organizations that advance the arts, education and environmental causes. With a primary focus on local reinvestment and asset-building, Bonnaroo Works Fund has donated over $7 million to charitable causes since its inception. For more information: www.bonnarooworksfund.org

A Shelbyville man who ran from Bedford County Courthouse last July is back in Bedford County after six months of freedom in Alabama.
Tristan David McMahon was brought back to Shelbyville last week after being arrested Jan. 28 in Athens, Alabama.
McMahon, 25, had been living in an apartment in Athens, Alabama under the name of Rontavious Love, Athens police said.
The Athens News Courier reported McMahon hit a police officer and ran away. Officers were investigating a “suspicious person” at the city’s utilities system office.
Athens police told the newspaper McMahon had a driver’s license in the “Love” name.
McMahon was charged with third-degree assault, resisting arrest, attempting to elude a police officer and interfering with governmental operations in Alabama. He faces a four-year prison term in Tennessee on marijuana charges with an additional charge of escape.
(Shelbyville Times-Gazette)

Gov. Bill Haslam will seek “additional flexibility” for teachers following the technology failure that caused TNReady assessment delays.
His proposal would allow teachers to choose whether they would like to include or exclude student results from the 2015-2016 TNReady assessment in their evaluation scores.
School systems had spent months preparing students for the tests, only to be disappointed when the online site crashed in early February.
Officials later announced that due to the failure, tests would be administered by paper and pencil for the remainder of the 2015-16 school year.
Haslam’s proposal would keep student learning and accountability as factors in an educator’s evaluation while giving teachers the option to include this year’s results if the results benefit them. The governor will work with the General Assembly on specific language and a plan to move the proposal through the legislative process.

The First United Methodist Church on 208 W. Lauderdale Street in Tullahoma is searching for 50 volunteers to participate in a Second Harvest mobile food pantry on March 7. The church has been hosting mobile food pantries since 2013.
This mobile food pantry event is funded through a grant through United Healthcare.
To volunteer for the mobile food pantry, email Theresa Johnson at theresajfumc@lighttube.net or sign up on a sign-up sheet in the main church building.
The church also hosts a bi-weekly food pantry at the Henry Center building at 201 West Lincoln St.

There are 282 public libraries in the 95 Tennessee counties.
This month all 282 received a new addition to their respective collections.
The Keep Tennessee Beautiful Foundation recently donated copies of “Nancy and Sluggo Love Tennessee: A Story About Keeping Tennessee Beautiful” in order to educate children across the state about the need for recycling and what littering does to the environment.
Each library received a letter along with the book from Keep Tennessee Beautiful Executive Director Missy Marshall, encouraging all to host a reading of “Nancy and Sluggo Love Tennessee” during the month of March in conjunction with Keep Tennessee Beautiful Month, as proclaimed by Gov. Bill Haslam.
To purchase a copy of the book, visit www.keeptnbeautiful.org.
In addition to March being Keep Tennessee Beautiful month, March 1 is the beginning of the Great American Cleanup, which runs through the end of May.
To help promote the Great American Cleanup, Mickey Utley, a musician from Haywood County, recorded a new version of his single “You, Me, and Tennessee” at Jaxon Record Studios in downtown Jackson on Jan. 21. Utley will perform the song live as part of the governor’s official kick-off party at the new Bass Pro Shop in the Pyramid in downtown Memphis on Feb. 29.