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CHS Soccer Blanks Cascade on Senior Night

CHS Senior Ali Shelton

The Lady Raider soccer team celebrated Senior Night in appropriate fashion claiming a 4 to 0 win over Cascade on Thursday night at Raider Field. Senior Halie Conner got the shutout between the pipes for Coffee County while senior Ali Shelton scored a goal. Also adding goals for the Lady Raiders were Caitlyn Moore, Allie Amado and Eliza Masters. Seniors Maclay Brandon, Ali Shelton, Andrea Vazquez, Izzy Huddleston, Halie Conner and Leiliane Diniz were honored following the match. The win improved the Lady Raiders record to 8-7-1 on the season. Coffee County will have a break before beginning the district tournament in October.

CHS Volleyball Drops 5 Set Heartbreaker to Columbia

CHS senior Diana Davis

In a match that came down to the final swings, the Columbia Lady Lions volleyball team thwarted a valiant Coffee County upset attempt dropping the Lady Raiders in 5 sets. The win was big for Columbia as it gives them a season sweep of Coffee County who currently sits in 2^nd place. The Lions roared out to 21 to 9 lead in the first set before claiming a 25 to 13 win. Coffee County battled back in the 2^nd set to even the match with a 25 to 22 win and the match stayed close the rest of the night. A crucial line shot along the sideline with the 3^rd set tied at 23 went Columbia’s way to lift them to a 25 to 23 set win before Coffee County tied the match again with a 25 to 15 win in the 4^th set. In the decisive 5^th set, the Lady Raiders built a 12 to 10 lead only to see Columbia tie the set before winning it 16 to 14.

Diana Davis was spectacular for Coffee County as she led the team in kills, digs and aces. The senior finished the night with 15 kills, 13 digs, 4 aces and a block. Maddie Taylor also had 4 service aces, added 7 digs and led the team in assists with 17. Aerial Williams led in blocks with 3, while Peyton Nicoll finished with 8 kills, 13 assists and 5 digs.

Coffee County travels to McMinnville on Saturday to take part in the Warren County tournament. Coffee County plays Cannon County at 9:00 AM, Warren County at 10:00 AM, Tullahoma at 11:00 AM and Grundy County at 1:00 PM in pool play. The championship bracket begins at 2:00 PM and all matches will take place at Warren County High School.

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Lane Jones, 2 — Pizza Winner!

Maddie Meacham, 7

Keith Nunley, 52

Jackie Richards, 30

9/28/15 — Christine A. Culpepper

Christine A. Culpepper, age 93 of Tullahoma, Tennessee passed away,
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at the Life Care Center of Tullahoma.
Graveside Services will be held Monday, September 28 at 2 PM at Rose Hill
Memorial Gardens with Rev. Paul Purdue officiating.

Mrs. Culpepper, a native of Knox County, was the daughter of the late
Thurman and Lenabell Starnes Ailor. She was a graduate of the University
of Tennessee and always enjoyed watching their football games. She was a
teacher and taught at the Highland Rim School for Girls before teaching at
East Junior High. She was also a substitute teacher for many years. She
was a member of the First United Methodist Church and was very active in
the Crusaders Sunday School Class and the Golden Circle. She was a
seamstress and loved sewing for children. She was an accomplished pianist
and taught piano lessons. She also was active with Habitat for Humanity.
Mrs.
Culpepper loved people and she enjoyed socializing.

In addition to his parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Orian
William “Jack” Culpepper; son, Thurman Wayne Culpepper; brothers, James
and
Earl Ailor and sisters, Kate and Ann Trotter.

She is survived by one son, James Ray Culpepper of Smyrna; one daughter,
Judith Ann Henson and her husband, Larry of Hugo, OK; four grandchildren,
Douglas Alexander Henson of Houston, TX, Garret Henson of Hugo, OK,
Alexander Henson and his wife, Nicki of Houston, TX and Jessie William
Culpepper of Camp Lejeune, NC and four great grandchildren.

Online condolences may be made at www.davesculbertsonfuneralhome.com

DAVES-CULBERSTON FUNERAL HOME IS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS

Car and Bus Collide; Injuring Five

Two children were flown to hospitals in a wreck that involved a school bus near a Franklin County school on Thursday morning.
A car carrying a mother and three children, twin boys age 5, and an 11-year-old, and the school bus wrecked around 7:15 a.m. near North Lake Elementary School on Old Tullahoma Road (Highway 130).
The 11-year-old was flown to Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga while one of the 5-year-olds was flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The mother and her other 5-year-old boy were taken to the hospital in Winchester.
Officials said one of the children was critically injured.
Authorities report one student on the bus had a minor injury to their hand. (WSMV)

Waiting Game for Expanding Tennessee Health Coverage

Supporters of Insure Tennessee say it will reduce the number of unnecessary emergency room visits by uninsured residents, but state politics have delayed its implementation. Credit: Kenn Kiser/Morguefile.

Almost 300,000 Tennesseans would have access to health coverage if Governor Bill Haslam’s Insure Tennessee plan is implemented – but not everyone is happy with the Republican governor’s support for expanding coverage. Last week, the state Attorney General determined the plan must have the approval of the General Assembly. The setback doesn’t sit well with Michelle Johnson, executive director of the Tennessee Justice Center. She says the governor’s Insure Tennessee plan represents a bipartisan effort to help the state’s working poor. “He worked very hard to make a plan that was unique to Tennessee, to bring down the billions of dollars in federal funds, that are ours, that are set aside for us,” she says. “It fixes the problem of 280,000 uninsured folks, including 24,000 veterans.” If enacted, Insure Tennessee would make the state eligible for more than $2.6 million dollars a day in federal funds. A recent Vanderbilt University poll found 64 percent of Tennesseans support the program, but its opponents say it could increase the federal deficit – and they have doubts about whether the federal government will continue funding as promised. Johnson says it’s important to remember that 50 percent of the Tennesseans who would benefit from the expansion are working people who have fallen into the gap of being uninsured. “These are the secretaries and the construction workers,” she says. “They’re students, they’re people who are domestic violence victims who are recently divorced. These people aren’t covered by TennCare. They’re in some cases too rich for TennCare, or they don’t fall in the right category for TennCare.” The federal government has said it will cover the full cost of the expansion for the first three years, and 90 percent of the cost after that. The state would be responsible for the remaining 10 percent.

Woman Charged With TennCare Fraud In Coffee County Now In Trouble In Cannon County

Taylor R Cantrell

A Cannon County woman is charged for the third time with doctor shopping for prescription drugs, using TennCare benefits as payment.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG), with the assistance of the Cannon County Sheriff’s Office, have announced the arrest of Taylor R. Cantrell, 24, of Readyville. She is charged in a Cannon County indictment with using TennCare to visit multiple physicians in a short period of time in order to obtain controlled substances, with TennCare paying for either the clinical visit or the prescriptions.
Cantrell was arrested in May after she was indicted by a Coffee County Grand Jury and charged with two counts of fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance by doctor shopping. And just two months before that, in March, she was indicted in Warren County on four counts of using TennCare to obtain controlled substances by doctor shopping.
In all three incidents, Cantrell sought the treatment of several medical providers at various facilities in order to gain prescriptions for painkillers, including Oxycodone, Hydrocodone and Tramadol and used TennCare as payment.
Through the OIG Cash for Tips Program established by the Legislature, Tennesseans can get cash rewards for TennCare fraud tips that lead to convictions. Anyone can report suspected TennCare fraud by calling 1-800-433-3982 toll-free from anywhere in Tennessee, or go to http://www.tn.gov/finance/topic/fa-oig.

Scholarship Saturday Is Sept. 26

Tennessee’s community and technical colleges are encouraging high school seniors to sign up for the governor’s free tuition program this Saturday.
Called Scholarship Saturday, the colleges are opening their doors for area seniors to sign up for Tennessee Promise and fill out their college applications.
Tennessee Promise offers eligible high school seniors free tuition to a two-year community or technical college. Out of 58,000 applicants, 15,800 students have enrolled in the program this year.
On Saturday, students may visit their local community colleges to get help and use the colleges’ computers to register online.
Motlow College’s Smyrna Center will open up its computer labs from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Saturday for area high school seniors to sign up for Tennessee Promise.

Tee Times Announced for Tuesday’s Golf State Championship

The Tee Times and Pairing for next week’s TSSAA State Golf Tournament are posted. Lady Raiders tee off the 1st tee at: 8:30, 8:40 and 8:50 AM on Tuesday. Savannah Quick will be in a foursome that tees off at 8:30 AM. The foursome containing Sophie Vinson will tee off right behind Quick at 8:40, while Teagan Perry’s foursome will go off at 8:50. The Coffee County Lady Raiders will be looking to improve on their state runner-up finish from last season. Additionally, individual medalist honors are on the line for this talented trio of Lady Raiders. You can find a complete listing of tee times, plus a link to live scoring for the event at: http://golf.tssaa.org/pairings.cfm?id=201502

Coffee County’s John Parigger is scheduled to begin his state title bid on the 10th tee at 9:50 AM. Parigger will be competing for an individual state title in his first ever appearance at the state tournament. “I am very excited” said Parigger following Monday’s region tournament performance. When asked about any nervousness about playing in the state tournament, Parigger said: “Playing(at Willowbrook) will really help.” For a complete listing of the boys tee times, you can see the listing at: http://golf.tssaa.org/pairings.cfm?id=201501

The TSSAA Golf Tournament will be contested on Tuesday and Wednesday at Willowbrook Golf Club in Manchester

CCMS Soccer Team Completes Unbeaten Regular Season on Wednesday

Marley Perry of CCMS Soccer (Photo provided)

The Coffee County Middle School Lady Raider soccer team closed out another unbeaten regular season on Wednesday with a 6 to 1 over North Franklin in Winchester. The Lady Raiders roared out to a 4 to 1 halftime lead on a pair of goals by Marley Perry along with single goals from Alexis Rayman and Journey Arnold. Julia Duncan got a pair of second half goals as she ran her season total up to 15. Coffee County will be the number 1 seed in the CTS Tournament coming up on Saturday, October 3rd. The CTC Tournament will be held in Tullahoma. The JV Conference Tournament will be held on Saturday at Warren County

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