Helen Burks of Winchester reported to Tullahoma Officer Rocky Ruehling that she found items belonging to her son at a storage unit on South Jackson Street. The items had been reported as stolen.
On May 17, Burks stated that she found some items that had been reported stolen from her son in Decherd. She noted that her son, Jeff Burks, is currently undergoing medical treatment in South Carolina.
She said that she stopped at the storage building on South Jackson when she allegedly discovered that there were several of her son’s belongings being sold at the site.
One of the individuals selling the items allegedly told Officer Rocky Ruehling that the items belonged to his father and that he was selling them. He offered to get his mother and bring her back to the storage building but never returned.
Decherd Police were told of the items being found and they obtained a search warrant.
Franklin County authorities arrested Jimmy Wesley Hargrove, 42, of Lynchburg Monday, May 19, on charges of possession of stolen property and burglary. He was booked into the Franklin County Jail and later released on a $7,500 bond.

Crude oil supplies in the Gulf Coast continue putting downward pressure on the price of gasoline. However, prices are not in a free fall as demand reached its highest level since 2009, according to the Energy Information Administration.
More than 31.8 million Americans will fill their gas tanks and take a trip of 50 miles or more this Memorial Day weekend. Many of them will be delighted to see that gas prices continue getting cheaper. The national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline fell 1-cent last week. The average price in Tennessee fell 2 cents. In Coffee County the low price is down to $3.37 in Manchester and $3.38 in Tullahoma.

As the state’s population continues to age, a growing number of Tennesseans are realizing there’s much life to be lived after navigating adulthood and the traditional career path. Consumer health expert Janet Taylor explains there has been a steady shift over the years, as more people are determined to seek out meaningful life changes in their older years, from career to health to relationships. “In fact, the sentiment is that at 50-plus, 60-plus, 70-plus, we’re not done yet in terms of realizing our passion and our purpose, and how to incorporate more of that into our daily lives,” Taylor says. To help those seeking changes spark some ideas about what they want to accomplish and how to do it, Taylor will be joined by Dr. Bill Thomas this Wednesday for a performance in Memphis as part of what’s called the Second Wind Tour. Taylor says the production is free to attend and uses a unique blend of theater, video and music to challenge the conventional narrative of decline in midlife and beyond. “And you can come and get information and inspiration. There’s music. There’s a movie. It’s nonfiction theater, but really meant to inspire you,” she explains. Wednesday’s performance in Memphis is just one of many events connected to the AARP program known as http://lifereimagined.aarp.orgLife Reimagined. Taylor describes it as a sort of personalized guidance system, including online tools, to help people dust off their dreams. “As we get older, people start looking and saying, ‘You know, I have less time in front of me than behind me,’ but the reality is there’s more than enough time left to do what you want to do, as long as you make the most of it,” she says. “Life Reimagined helps you make the most of the time that you have left.” According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the aging of the baby boomer generation means the nation’s 65-and-older population will nearly double by the year 2050. More information is available at http://lifereimagined.aarp.org and at http://secondwindtour.org.

Motlow College alumnus Andy Baits has donated a pair of sports-related books to the Clayton-Glass Library and has joined with the Motlow College Foundation in creating the “Books for Binns” project.
Baits, an outstanding member of the Bucks’ basketball teams in 1983-84 and 84-85, holds multiple spots in the school’s all-time record book. He chose to honor the late Binns Jordan for Jordan’s contributions to the athletic history of the college. Jordan was the first radio broadcaster of Motlow athletics when the school opened in 1969, and also worked at the college bookstore in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Jordan, who passed away in February, was a sports analyst and talk show host on our sister station WHMT, The Ticket sports radio in Tullahoma.
“I think it is important to recognize Binns as being the first to broadcast Motlow athletics,” said Baits, who now lives in Christiana. “Furthermore, he was a pillar in the local sports community and was either broadcasting, umpiring, driving the bus, lining the field or keeping the stats at thousands of events. He is a Tullahoma sports legend.
The books Baits chose, Wooden: A Coach’s Life by Seth Davis and The College Football Book from Sports Illustrated, will be specially marked to indicate the project and then put into circulation.