Rescue personnel spent more than an hour Wednesday afternoon rescuing a young woman who had fallen from the Machine Falls in the Short Springs area. According to rescue personnel, the woman was walking along the fall and fell. Members of the Coffee County Rescue Squad, Coffee County Ambulance service, deputies from the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department and the Tullahoma Fire Department worked for nearly an hour and half to get the young woman up to the top of the falls and to a waiting ambulance. She was transported to a Manchester hospital for treatment of her injuries.

Tammy Webb intake photo from Warren County Jail

The director of Warren County Animal Control faces charges after marijuana was found growing on county property behind the animal shelter on Paws Lane. Tammy Webb was arrested Monday evening following a grand jury indictment on charges relating to the manufacture, delivery and sale of marijuana. Sheriff’s investigator Bo Ramsey said text messages between Webb and her son, Jonathan Ewell Smith, led to the indictment. Smith was arrested four weeks ago when deputies confiscated 36 marijuana plants found in the field.-WKRN-

Jonathan Ewell Smith intake photo from the Warren County Jail

Moore County Sheriff’s Department is searching for thieves who have been burglarizing houses in the Hurricane Road, Price Hollow, Turkey Creek Church Road, Cobb Hollow Road and McGee Road areas. According Moore County Sheriff Mark Logan, the thieves, who are thought to be driving a dark blue SUV, are stealing televisions, jewelry, guns, chain saws and leaf blowers. He said the thieves are taking anything that they can pawn easily.

Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper

A new survey says late payments on mortgages hit a three-year low, but if you’re still having problems with your home mortgage, help might just be a phone call away. Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper and Tennessee Housing Development Agency Executive Director Ted R. Fellman announced a toll-free mortgage hotline is now available for Tennesseans who need advice. Homeowners can call Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. CST and speak with a representative who can direct homeowners to a free foreclosure prevention counselor and explain various housing assistance programs. “My office wants to make sure that Tennessee homeowners get all the help they deserve under this settlement,” said Cooper. “We are pleased to partner with THDA to create this mortgage hotline for all Tennessee homeowners who are struggling to make their mortgage payment.” For information about programs for eligible homeowners struggling to make their monthly payments due to unemployment or underemployment is also available at www.KeepMyTNHome.org. If you’d like to call the Tennessee mortgage hotline, their toll-free number is 855-876-7283

Low water levels at area lakes

Charla Daly, County Executive Director of the Coffee/Grundy County Farm Service Agency, announces that due to the extreme drought situation that has been ongoing since April 10, 2012, Coffee and Grundy County FSA has been authorized to implement the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP). Coffee/Grundy County’s ECP signup period will begin August 13 at 8:00 am and will continue through 4:30 p.m. on September 12, 2012. This program will provide a maximum of 50% cost share for permanent practices and 75% cost share for temporary practices (not to exceed actual documented costs) if funding becomes available. Applicants must incur at least $1,000 in cost before cost-share can be approved. Eligible expenses for cost-share under this program include: installing pipelines to another water source, water storage facilities, including above ground tanks and troughs, constructing or deepening wells, permanently installed submersible pumps of adequate size to address livestock water needs, solar panels to provide pump power, contractor costs for hauling water to livestock, portable or permanent holding/storage tanks, truck rental for delivering water to livestock, personal or hired labor for delivering livestock water, and pipelines for livestock watering facilities.  All expenses must be documented and must be limited to direct costs incurred as a result of the drought and beyond the normal operation of the farm. Livestock producers who wish to apply for USDA cost-share assistance should immediately visit the Coffee/Grundy County Farm Service Agency office to file an application. Daly reminds all applicants that, although his office is accepting the requests, this does not imply that cost share assistance will be made available. If funds become available, the applications processed will receive funding if all eligibility requirements are met. Applications received after 4:30 p.m. on September 12, 2012 will not be approved.

Photo by Antonio More'

A number of Coffee County residents took time Tuesday afternoon to drive to the Tullahoma Airport to watch Metropolitan Life’s (MetLife) Snoopy #2 blimp. The blimp landed at the airport around 6 p.m. and the crewmembers spent the night in Tullahoma and then headed to South Carolina where they will be providing aerial shots of a PGA golf tournament. Airport manager Jon Glass said similar blimps have landed at the airport.