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Storms Cause Damage
Tree just misses home... By Barry West
Wind damage from Thursday storm... Photo by Barry West
Strong winds and heavy rains moved through the Coffee County area around noon Thursday. The storm dumped 1.15 inches of rain at the National Weather Service monitoring station located at the Tullahoma Waste Water Plant. Because of the heavy downpours, the National Weather Service placed Coffee County under a flood alert. According to the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department, there were a number of trees downed in the northern section of the county. “There was damage to areas around the Beech Grove and Lakewood Park area,” Coffee County Sheriff Capt. Frank Watkins stated. He noted that deputies found a house with part of the roof blown off. According to the national weather service, radar shows just strong wind around the noon hour in the Beech Grove area.
Problems Continue At Coffee County Jail
Inside the Coffee County Jail... Courtesy of The Tullahoma News
As of Tuesday there were some 289 inmates in the Coffee County Jail which was designed to house 196 inmates.
During a tour of the county lockup Wednesday, Tullahoma News and WHMT Radio reporter Wayne Thomas saw that there were 30 inmates housed in cells designed to house only 16 inmates.
Prisoners were having to sleep on the floor and having to step over sleeping inmates to move around.
Meanwhile, the Coffee County Commission’s Jail Review Committee is still working on plans for a new jail.
Murder In Shelbyville
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said a man was found murdered inside his Bedford County home on Wednesday. A woman called 911 on Wednesday afternoon after finding the body of her husband, 55-year-old Larry Walls, inside their ransacked home on Ennon Church Road in Shelbyville.
An autopsy found homicide to be his cause of the death, but the TBI did not release the manner in which he died. The TBI is working with the Bedford County Sheriff’s office during the investigation.
Search Finds Dangerous Fugitive
Authorities in Hickman County said an extremely dangerous mental patient who escaped a halfway house has been arrested in Marshall County.
The Hickman County Sheriff’s Department said 35-year-old Kenneth Ryan Mallady was arrested Thursday. Authorities said he resisted arrest, but no other details about his arrest were known.
Mallady was last seen on July 26, but his escape was not reported to authorities until July 30. Police said he is schizophrenic and has not been taking his medication. Mallady had been found not guilty by reason of insanity of the first degree premeditated murder of his mother and attempted murder of his stepfather in Hickman County in 2003. Authorities said Mallady decapitated his mother and poked out the eyes of his stepfather.
1175th Being Deployment
A portion of the National Guard’s 1175th Transportation Company in Tullahoma is scheduled to leave on Saturday for a nine-month deployment. The 39 soldiers will depart the Tullahoma armory at 9 a.m. The servicemen will first go to Camp Shelby in Mississippi for a short time for specialized training before going to Afghanistan. Tullahoma’s armory is located at 1402 East Carroll Street.
Lady Raiders Ready For Soccer
Sarah Monroe works the ball down the field... Photo by Nick Trail Manchester Times
The Lady Raiders will begin the season by hosting St. Andrews-Sewanee at 7 p.m. August 21.
New Baseball Coach At MTSU
MTSU baseball associate head coach Jim McGuire has been promoted to the head coaching position, as announced on Thursday by Director of Athletics Chris Massaro and President Sidney A. McPhee. McGuire has spent the last 20 years serving alongside former head coach Steve Peterson, who retired on July 5 after 25 seasons at the helm.
McGuire becomes just the third different Blue Raider coach since 1974, following John Stanford (1974-87) and Peterson (1988-2012). He is the 21st coach since the program began at MTSU in 1913.
8/11/12 — James E. Campbell “Jimmy”
Mr. James E. Campbell “Jimmy” age 70 of Tracy City passed away Wednesday at Emerald-Hodgson Hospital in Sewanee.
He was a retired Tracy City merchant. He and his family had operated the Western Auto and later Campbell Supply Company in Tracy City for many years and had built residential homes and developed residential sub-divisions.
Mayor of Tracy City, Jimmy had been appointed by the Tracy City Council to serve as mayor until the next city election. He was very active in community affairs, served on the Tracy City Public Utility Board and was very proud to be from Tracy City and to represent its citizens.
He was a son of the late James Marion “Jim” Campbell and Margaret Sanders Campbell and was preceded in death by his wife, Bette Sue Campbell.
Survivors include his son, James E. “Eddie” Campbell, II of Tracy City; daughter, Susan D. Campbell of Winchester; brother, Roger Campbell of Tracy City; grandchildren, Kelly Campbell, Savannah Campbell and Alexandria Campbell.
Funeral services will be 3:00 P.M. Saturday in the Foster & Lay Chapel with Brother Wayne Simpson officiating.
Burial will be in Plainview Memorial Cemetery.
The family will receive friends Friday 5-9 P.M. at the funeral home.
Memorial may be made to the American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association or your charity of choice.
Foster & Lay Funeral Home of Tracy City is in charge of funeral arrangements.
8/8/12
Birthdays:
Austin Tipler – 13 – Pizza Winner!
Donna Vandagriff – 54, Jeff Lowe – 45, Madison Rigney – 15, Keith Eedy – 51
8/7/12
Birthdays:
Haley Madlock – Pizza Winner!, Steve Perry – 49.