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Regular Season Ends For Red Raider Golf–Next Up District Tournament
In high school golf Wednesday Coffee County traveled to Shelbyville for their final regular season match of the year.
The girl’s team picked up a win over Tullahoma. Hollee Sadler had the low score for the Lady Raiders with a 74.
Coffee County is now 64-3 on the year.
The boys dropped all 3 matches to Tullahoma, Shelbyville and Franklin County. Jacob Prater shot the low score for the Raiders with an 81. Coffee County falls to 35-32 on the season.
The two Raider golf teams travel back to Shelbyville for the District 8-AAA tournament on Tuesday.
Raider Basketball Team Hosting Golf Tournament
The Coffee County High School basketball team is hosting their 2nd annual Red Raider Scramble this Saturday at Willowbrook Golf Club. Cost to field a 4 man team is $300 or you can play as an individual for $75. Entry fee covers your green fees and cart fees, plus covers your lunch which will be served at noon. The scramble begins with a shotgun start at 1:00 PM and cash prizes will be awarded for 1st and 2nd place in 2 flights. There will also be a putting contest, long drive contest and closest to the pin awards. Mulligan packages are also available for purchase and all proceeds will benefit the Coffee County basketball program. Registration is closing NOW, so if you are interested in attending, please call Coach Ben Holl at 615-830-0286 or Head Coach J.D. Douglas at 931-723-5174.
2013 Murder Investigation Continues
Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves
It’s been a long time since we have heard any new information on the murder of 73 year-old Patricia Collins of Manchester. The murder occurred Oct. 17, 2013 at her home on Powers Bridge Rd.
A friend found the body of Collins on that day when he stopped by the residence to pick Collins up and travel to Columbia where he was giving a seminar.
The unidentified man called 911 and reported finding her body. Deputies arrived and secured the area and requested, investigators to the scene.
An autopsy revealed that Collins died of strangulation and blunt force trauma to the head.
Sheriff Steve Graves says the investigation is continuing and that investigators have interviewed several people concerning the case in hopes of establishing a motive for the murder. The sheriff also said, “We plan to meet with new district attorney Craig Northcott and talk about the case. No one has been charged in this case.
If you know of any information that could help authorities please contact the sheriff’s department at (931) 728-3591.
New County Commissioner Selected
New County Mayor and Chairman of the commission, Gary Cordell… Photo by Barry West
On Tuesday night the Coffee County Commission met for the first time in 8 years without David Pennington as mayor and chairman. New County Mayor Gary Cordell was elected to the chairman’s seat.
You may remember that after the county general election in August we had a tie vote for District 14 commissioner between Missy DeFord and Lamar Wilkie. 10 new commissioners were elected in August and they along with 10 incumbents that won, had the task on Tuesday to decide who would be the person to take over District 14 after Keith Thacker lost in the May primary. After an 11-8 vote, Missy Deford was chosen as the new commissioner. DeFord brings the total to 11 new commissioners in Coffee County.
No 911 Texting In Tennessee
In an emergency, you can text your spouse, parents, best friend, neighbor or just about anyone else with a cellphone and ask them for help.
But in Tennessee, you can’t text 911.
According to a report in the Knoxville News Sentinel, no city or county in Tennessee currently accepts text messages to 911, even though the Federal Communications Commission has been trying to get emergency call centers to embrace text messaging, and advocates for deaf people, domestic violence victims and others have been pushing for the service for years.
The FCC took steps last month to accelerate text-to-911 service across the country. The federal agency ordered that text message providers that aren’t already making the service available must do so by the end of the year in jurisdictions that can handle such messages.
5th Annual Nashville 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb Is Sunday
Memorial service held before last year’s event.
The 5th Annual Nashville 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb will be held Sunday, September 14, 2014 at William R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower in Downtown, Nashville, Tennessee. 343 Firefighters will climb in remembrance of the 343 New York Firefighters that died 13 years ago at the Twin Towers on 9/11/01.
Manchester, Hillsboro, Tullahoma, Summitville, AEDC and others firefighters from the state will participate in the event.
The 343 Firefighters participating will wear full gear (from 60 to 80 pounds) and climb for someone specifically. Each climber will be given a badge to wear with the name and photograph of one of the FDNY firefighters killed on 9/11/01.
Each firefighter that climbs will go up 28 floors four different times to match what FDNY did on 9/11/01.
Cross Country teams compete well at Warren County
The Westwood Cross Country team competed in their first meet ever on Tuesday in McMinnville. The boys team won the meet as Samuel Workman and Andres Cavalie finished 1st and 2nd in the race outdistancing the other 34 runners in the meet. Workman finished at 14:05 with Cavalie on his heels at 14:06. Cory Walker finished in 11th place and Jacob Moore , Eric Randolph and Aiden Stovall all finished in the Top 20. For the girls, Mary Elizabeth Spradley was the top finished for Westwood as she finished in 11th place at 18:24. Katherine Hills came in 15th place, Sunshine Mai finished in 20th place while Aiden Widner was 21st and Zoe Mills was 23rd. Those 5 runners gave Westwood a score of 67 which was not enough to knock off Cannon County in the team competition. The Westwood Cross Country team’s next meet is set for September 22nd at Old Stone Fort.
The CHS Cross Country team competed at Warren County on Tuesday.
Photo courtesy of Pascale Randolph
The CHS Cross Country team continued their improvement on Tuesday in McMinnville as all the Red Raider runners lowered their personal best times. As a team, the Red Raiders finished 3rd out of 6 teams competing. Individually; Andy Rossom was the top finisher for Coffee County finishing in 8th place, out of 62 runners, at 19:29. Scott Randolph finished in 12th place, Maxwell Nicoll was in 15th place and Caleb Buck finished in 26th place. For the girls, junior Makenzie Morgan was the top finisher as she finished in 13th place. Kayla McCormick had a personal best of 30:36 to finish in 22nd place. The Raider thinclads are back in action next Tuesday as they will host a home meet at Old Stone Fort.
9/8/14 —— Bruce Robert Causon
Bruce Robert Causon of Tullahoma, passed this life on Monday, September 8th, 2014 at Harton Regional Medical Center at the age of 62.
Mr. Causon was born in Cheltenham, England to the late William Causon and Betty Barsellotti Causon who survives.
During his life he served in the British Navy and later went on to work as an engineer for Cubic Precision.
In addition to his mother, Mr. Causon is survived by his wife Pauline Causon of Tullahoma; one daughter, Ashley Causon of New York City; one son, Andrew Causon of Sydney, Australia; four sisters, Ann Hasting, Jane Bailey, Lizz Nicholson, and Wendy Childs; and two brothers, William and Brian Causon.
Funeral Services will be held at a later date at the NG Fook Funeral Home, 36 Mulberry Street, New York, New York 10013, www.fookfuneralgroup.com.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the National Kidney Foundation, 30 East 33rd, Street, New York, New York, 10016.
Kilgore Funeral Home in charge of local arrangements.
09/09/14
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Oscar Anderson – Pizza Winner!
09/08/14
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Leonard Wayne Finchum – 67 -Pizza Winner!
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