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Manchester Babe Ruth Starts State Tournament Friday
The Manchester Babe Ruth team that won the district tournament last week will compete in the state tournament beginning Friday (July 20, 2012) in Lebanon. The all-stars first game will be against Sparta starting at noon. A win in that game will put Manchester playing at 5:30pm on Saturday. In case of a loss Manchester will play at noon Saturday.
Manchester Crash Injures One
Wreck scene picture provided by Barry West
Wednesday afternoon around 4:15pm, a local woman said her accelerator hung causing her to hit another car and then the large Marathon sign at the corner of Ragsdale Road and McMinnville Hwy. The woman driver was transported to Medical Center of Manchester complaining of leg pain. The woman in the other vehicle was not hurt.
Manchester Police Department was in charge of the scene.
Sales Tax Collections Up Again
Sales tax collections in June were up in Manchester and Tullahoma along with the county. In Tullahoma June collections in 2011 were $751,837 and last month Tullahoma collected $838,524, increasing $86,686. In the county tax collection were up again after being down slightly in May. For June Coffee County collected $829,553 compared to $805,040 June 2011. The City of Manchester saw another month with sales tax collections going up, this time $56,311 over June of 2011 with $651,504 collected. Overall net county collections were $2.3(M) for June 2012.
Police And The Sharpton Family Needs Your Help
Erika Megan Sharpton
The 24-year-old Tullahoma nursing student’s beaten and burned body was discovered just off Awalt Road in Franklin County by a passerby around 1:15 a.m. on the morning on July 2.
Her Ford Mustang was found later that day parked in the middle of Three Forks Bridge Road in Bedford County.
The vehicle was taken to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab in Nashville for processing. Her family is hoping anyone with information will come forward and help give them closure. Call the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department at 967 2331 or the TBI at 1-800-TBI-Find.
Anyone interested in donating to the reward fund, which has reached $10,000, or buying a t-shirt, can email Sharpton’s sister-in-law, Lindsay Foutch at Lindsay.Foutch@gmail.com. Donations to the reward fund can be made at any location of American City Bank.
A Facebook page has also been set up in her honor
ATA To Ask For Voluntary Reduction In Staff
The lead contractor at Arnold Air Force Base, Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA), announced it will offer a voluntary reduction in force (VRIF) to its employees this week.
The voluntary reduction in force allows interested employees to voluntarily request a layoff, often meaning the company faces fewer involuntary or forced layoffs. Budget and skill mix issues are the reasons for the voluntary reduction in force.
ATA General Manager, Steve Pearson, says it is too early to know if there will be an involuntary layoff later in the year.
“We are better off than we thought we would be at this point, but it is too early to declare victory,” he said. ATA employs 1,850 people.
Smoky Mountains Getting More Visitors
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is running more than 11% ahead of 2011 visits for the first half of this year.
Park officials said Wednesday that June visitation was up 7.2% – a total of 1,202,056 visitors to the 500,000-acre park on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. The year-to-date figure is up 11.5% over the first six months of 2011. That means an additional 410,767 people have come into the park this year.
A Smokies spokeswoman said the park is also 3.6% ahead of the 5-year average for park visits.
Goodwin Laid To Rest
Funeral procession for Dale Goodwin... Photo by Sara Blackburn
Coffee County Mayor David Pennington said on Thunder Radio on Wednesday that Goodwin will be missed by all that knew him. Pennington added Goodwin was known to many as a very good antique collector.
Goodwin, a Lieutenant with the department, also served time as a patrol deputy and was a veteran of the U.S. Army.
Many current and former students at Coffee County High School have sent condolences over Facebook throughout the week.
Yesterday nearly 30 emergency vehicles were in the funeral procession.
7/18/12 —- Clifford Jessie Winton
CLIFFORD JESSIE WINTON, age 56, of Estill Springs,Tenn., departed this life on Sunday, July 15, 2012, at his residence following an extended illness.
Mr. Winton was employed as a dry wall finisher. He was a member of the Lexie Crossroads Assembly of God Church in Belvidere. His hobbies were fishing and hunting rabbits, or “running his dogs”.
Mr. Winton was preceded in death by his mother, Virginia Winton and brother, Ronnie Winton.
He is survived by his daughter, Chasity (Tommy) Magouirk son, Dayton(Wendy) Winton all of Winchester, Tenn., Devoted Companion, Glenda Mines of Estill Springs, sisters; Loretta Austin, Mitzi Morris both of Tullahoma, Wanda Burk of Petersurg, Tenn., grandchildren; Cierra and T.J. Magouirk, Tyler, Landon and Brasyn Winton and ex-wife and friend, Debbie Brandon, of Estill Springs, Tenn.
Private graveside services are scheduled for 6:30 P.M. Wednesday evening.
Grant Funeral Services in charge of arrangements.
7/20/12 — Emma Jean Blaylock
Emma Jean Blaylock, age 82, of Lafayette, GA and formerly of Franklin County, went to be with the Lord Tuesday July 17, 2012 with her son Michael by her side.
She was born at St. Andrews, TN near Sewanee, to the late Dorothy Annie Foster Graves and Lawrence Augustine Graves. She made her home in Franklin County until 1953 then moved to Northern Georgia where she worked tirelessly as talented seamstress. She attended the Baptist Church all her life until her health began to fail. She especially enjoyed flower gardening, painting, reading and sewing. She will be remembered by her family as a woman of strong character, and always having a friendly smile for everyone.
She is preceded in death by her sisters, Wilma Jean March, Virginia Alford and Lillian Jones; brothers Douglas Graves, Richard Graves and Elmer Graves and an infant daughter.
Left to cherish her are her sons, Michael A. Cook of Lafayette, GA and Paul (Janie) Blaylock of Clarksville, TN.; sister Deborah (Everett) Kerley of Rossville, GA; grandchildren Robin Cook, Michael Johnston, Christine Blaylock and Briana Blaylock; numerous nieces and nephews.
The funeral service will be conducted from the chapel of Watson-North Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Friday July 20, 2012 with Mickey Henley officiating.
Interment will follow at Eastern Star Cemetery in Sewanee with friends and family serving as pallbearers.
Visitation will be Thursday July 19, 2012 from 5-8 p.m. at Watson-North Funeral Home.
Watson-North Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
7/17/12
Birthdays:
Peggy Bryan – Pizza Winner! Andie Mae Clutter – 9
Anniversaries:
Jeff & Debi Grosch, Dan & Melinda Raye – 37th!