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CNN To Do Story On Tullahoma Murder Victim
The family of murder victim Megan Sharpton has gained some additional support in trying to locate the people involved in the murder. CNN’s Nancy Grace is scheduled to talk about the murder on Monday. In the meantime investigators from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department continue to gather evidence and talk with individuals about the murder of the young nursing student. The family says that they have collected several donations and they have two anonymous donors who plan to each donate $5,000.
Scam Working Around The State
State officials are warning about a scam in which perpetrators offer to arrange payments of consumers’ utility bills. The Tennessee Regulatory Authority says scammers ask for Social Security numbers or other personal information. The scammers, in exchange, provide phony bank account numbers and bank routing numbers they say would be used to pay bills online. Officials say the perpetrators tell people it’s a special federal program to pay such bills. The bogus information is being disseminated through social media, email, text messages and in-person solicitations.
TRA chairman Kenneth Hill described the scammers as “bad actors in the marketplace.”
Unemployment Rate Goes Up Again In Tennessee
Tennessee’s unemployment rate rose 0.2 percent in June to 8.1 percent.
Karla Davis, commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development, said Thursday the June figure was the highest since January. But it was substantially below the 9.4 percent in June a year ago. Government and educational services combined declined by 17,400 jobs. After seasonal adjustments, total jobs (excluding agriculture) decreased by 12,100. The national jobless rate for June was 8.2 percent. Tennessee has been below the national figure for six months.
Electronic Textbooks Headed To Tullahoma Classrooms
Tullahoma Director of Schools Dan Lawson
The cost will be about $900,000. Lawson said the system can fund the purchases with the $300,000 annually it would normally spend on hardcover textbooks.
Lawson said the electronic textbooks can have their educational material tailored to local level issues which would increase student interest in subjects. He used an example that someone like Dr. Michael Bradley, a noted Civil War historian from Tullahoma, could provide information about the Tullahoma Campaign. He added the approach would provide a local touch to the students’ learning process.
7/21/12 — Bradley Allen Gore
Bradley Allen Gore, of Tullahoma, passed this life on Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, TN at the age of 32.
Born in Tullahoma, Tennessee to Kenneth and Ann Gore, Bradley was a graduate of Moore County High School and Middle Tennessee State University. He worked as an office manager for Dr. Glenn Davis in Manchester and was a member of the Estill Springs Church of the Nazarene.
Mr. Gore is preceded in death by his grandparents, F.E. and Bessie Gore, and Hobert and Estia Hill.
In addition to his parents, Bradley is survived by his wife Andrea Gore; one daughter, Anzleigh Gore; and one unborn child all of Tullahoma; one brother, Mitchell Gore and wife Ashley of Tullahoma; one sister, Cindy Jones and husband Chris of Tullahoma; In-Laws, Wanda and Donald Russell of Tullahoma and John Kelley of Lynchburg; Brother-In-Law, John T. Kelley and wife Jessica of Tullahoma; nieces and nephews, Faith and Ethan Jones, Aubreigh Harris, Sara Beth, Kirkland and Brayden Kelley .
Visitation for Mr. Gore will be held on Friday, July 20th, 2012 at Kilgore Funeral Home from 5:00-8:00pm.
The funeral service will be Saturday, July 21st, 2012 at 11:00am at the Estill Springs Church of the Nazarene with Rev. Matt Hastings officiating.
Burial will follow at Rose Hill Memorial Gardens.
For those who wish, donations may be made to the Estill Springs Church of the Nazarene.
Kilgore Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
7/22/12 — Wendell Thomas Jones
Wendell Thomas Jones, age 21 of Shelbyville, formerly of Decherd passed away Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at Heritage Medical Center.
He is survived by his father, Tommie Lee Jones of Winnsboro, SC; mother, Carlotta D. Scheaffer (Harold) of Shelbyville; sister, Victoria Jones of Shelbyville; grandmother, Mrs. Mattie Lee (Henry) of Winnsboro, SC; aunts, Gina M. Sims-Johnson of Decherd, Therosha Jackson of Winnsboro, SC and Toni Hall of Augusta, GA; uncles, Wendell Payne Sims of Albany, KY, Kenneth Lee Jones of Germantown, MD, Anthony Jones of Baltimore, MD and Jay Tyrone Jones of Timmonsville, SC; cousins, Shaun C. Sims-Johnson of Decherd and Aimee K. Ballanger of Chattanooga; and a host of great- aunts, great-uncles, other cousins, family and friends.
Visitation is 12-2 PM Sunday, July 22, 2012 at Moore-Cortner Chapel with funeral services at 2 PM.
Interment will follow at Mt. Garner Cemetery.
Moore-Cortner Funeral Home, 300 1st Ave NW, Winchester, in charge of arrangements.
7/18/12
Birthdays:
Angela Penn – 13 – Pizza Winner!
Sue Brock, Ricky Parks – 58, Jeremy Raye – 34, Dr. Jeffery Keele – Emily Hillis
Anniversaries: James & Sue Brock – 49th! Gary & Jacquelyn Warren – 14th, Bobby & Audrey Stone – 48th!
7/21/12 — Virginia Gillespie Lee
Virginia Gillespie Lee, age 88 of Manchester, Tennessee, passed away on July 15, 2012 at the Southern Tennessee Medical Center in Winchester, TN. Red Raiders Name New Defensive Coordinator
Rick Butler
Coffee County has hired a new Defensive Coordinator in Rick Butler and he brings with him a long and impressive resume’.
Butler brings 25 years of coaching football at every level of the game.
He served a Special Teams Coordinator with the Nashville Kats of AFL.
Butler was Defensive Coordinator and Recruiting Coordinator at the University of West Alabama.
He served as the Offensive Coordinator at Sewanee-University of the South. He then moved to defensive coordinator and special team’s coordinator.
Coached Offensive Line at Cumberland University.
Rick has also been a Head H.S. Football Coach at three different Schools for 11 years including Oakland in Murfreesboro, Northeast High School in Clarksville and Cheatham County High School.
Butler also runs Frontline Scouting Services. His business offers combines and camps exclusively for high school offensive and defensive linemen in the pursuit of college scholarships. They provide college and university coaches verifiable data on the positions many deem the most difficult to evaluate.
Softball Banquet Honors Lady Raiders
L-R Jeff Cox, Chelsea Howell and Lucky Knott... By Barry West
Most of the speeches were about the tremendous season the Lady Raiders had going to the state tournament and finishing 3rd.
Floyd reminded everyone now the work begins for another run for a state title.