SUV involved in crash... By Barry West

Motorcycle damaged in wreck... Photo by Barry West

Monday morning at 8:00, a motorcycle was traveling south near Wal-Mart in Manchester when a small SUV from Illinois came across several lanes to attempt to turn into Relco Drive and struck the bike. The local man was taken to an area hospital via personal vehicle after being checked out by Coffee County EMS personnel. He was not seriously hurt, and the driver of the SUV was uninjured. Manchester Police Department worked the crash.

Mary Faye Morrow

The former finance director for the City of Winchester has been ordered to pay $226,953.31 in restitution for the theft of money from the city coffers while she was serving in that official capacity. Mary Faye Morrow, 63, of Huntland, is also sentenced to serve 8 years in prison and is required to serve 30% of that sentence before being eligible for parole. Morrow retired from her post with the City of Winchester last year and auditors started finding the missing money. The TBI investigated the missing money and indicted Morrow.

Thunder Radio and the Manchester Times will host the Manchester Municipal political forum July 12 at the Coffee County Central High School Auditorium.
Carefully planned to take place one day prior to early voting – the forum will focus on the Manchester city election, which will see the mayor’s seat and five of the six aldermanic seats up for grabs.
The debates will be held at separate times – with aldermanic candidates taking the stage from 6-7:30 p.m. and mayoral candidates taking the stage from 8-9:30 p.m. Both will be aired live on Thunder Radio – WMSR AM-1320 and FM-107.9. The Times will also be providing live Tweets throughout the event.
WMSR radio commentator Lucky Knott and Manchester Times Editor Josh Peterson will moderate both forums.
Four candidates have qualified for the mayor’s race, including incumbent Betty Superstein, and 14 have qualified for the aldermanic race, including all incumbents with the exception of Janet Nettles, who was recently appointed to fill Lonnie Norman’s seat and said she would not be running for re-election.
Moderators will ask all of the questions, but citizens wishing to submit questions for consideration may do so by filling out a form at the Manchester Times office – 300 N. Spring St., Manchester, TN.
Questions must be submitted in person with a name. Questions in poor taste will not be considered.
Call the Times at 931-728-7577 or Thunder Radio at 931-728-1320 with any questions about the forum.

All affected water customers; 1200 block thru 1800 block of Ragsdale Rd.
On Thursday 6-21-12 beginning at approximately 8:00 p.m., the Manchester Water and Sewer Department will be performing routine maintenance and hydrant repair. Residents in the vicinity of Ragsdale Rd., New Bushy Branch, Circle Ave. and Swing Away Dr. may experience reduced pressures and flows during the scheduled maintenance. They apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Should you have any questions, please contact the MWSD at 728-1273.

The Tennessee Department of Education is joining a new network focused on career preparation for high school students.
The Pathways to Prosperity Network is a multi-state, multi-year initiative promoting school partnerships with public and private sector leaders in Tennessee, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri and North Carolina. The network aims to address unemployment among students without high school or college diplomas by combining academics with technical education needed in the labor market.
The network was created in collaboration with national education nonprofit Jobs for the Future and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.
The new partnership builds on existing career preparation programs such as the Highlands of Tennessee in the upper Cumberland area and another one that works with Volkswagen in Chattanooga.

As awareness spreads about the abusive treatment of Tennessee Walking Horses in the top levels of show competition, The Humane Society of the United States is continuing its commitment to help bring violators to justice through the offering of a reward to crack down on abuse of these animals. The standing reward of up to $10,000 will be paid for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any violator of the Horse Protection Act or any state law which prohibits horse “soring,” the deliberate infliction of pain to force horses to perform an artificially high-stepping gait for the show ring.