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Curtis Lee Millaway, Sr
Curtis Lee Millaway, Sr. of Tullahoma passed this life on Saturday, April 3, 2021 at the age of 82 at his home, surrounded by his family. Curtis was born in Guntersville, AL to the late Thomas and Irene Whitmire Millaway. During his life, Curtis served his country as a member of the Army National Guard, worked for Tullahoma Freight, then as a truck driver for Bryan Oil Co. from which he retired. He was also a member of Rutledge Falls Baptist Church. In addition to his parents, Mr. Millaway is preceded in death by his wife, Delores Millaway; one son, Curtis Millaway, Jr. He is survived by three daughters, Patricia Norwood (Kent), Pamela Millaway, and Melissa Parson (James); one daughter-in-law, Paula Millaway; one brother, Ken Millaway; one sister, Joan Daniel; 13 grandchildren, Brian, Shannon, Jason, Crystal, Nickki, Erica, Roman, Justin, Aftin, Jared, Austin, Lee, and Thomas; 17 great-grandchildren; 1 great-great-grandchild; and a number of nieces, nephews, and neighbors. Visitation for Mr. Millaway will be held on Tuesday, April 6, 2021 from 11:00-2:00pm at Kilgore Funeral Home. Funeral services will immediately follow at 2:00pm in the Kilgore Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Charles Houston officiating. Burial will follow at Rose Hill Memorial Gardens. For those who wish, the family asks that donations in Curtis’ memory be made to the American Cancer Society- P.O. Box 22718 Oklahoma City, OK 73123-1718. Kilgore Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Linda Sue Jones
Funeral services for Mrs. Linda Sue Jones, age 66 of Manchester, will be conducted at 2:00pm on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, at Manchester Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Adam Duncan Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 4:00pm until 8:00pm on Monday, April 5, 2021, at the funeral home. Mrs. Jones passed from this life on Friday, April 2, 2021, at TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, TN.
Linda was born in Coffee County on October 11, 1954, the daughter of the late Joseph and Effie Wilson. She worked at Batesville Casket Company for 20 years before going into healthcare as a CNA. Linda enjoyed gardening in her flower garden and cooking, but the most important thing to her was her grandchildren. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and sister.
In addition to her parents, Linda is also preceded in death by her husband, Edsel Jones; daughter, Angela Jones; two brothers, J.W. Wilson and Lewis B. Wilson; one sister, Frances Panter. She is survived by her son, Eric Jones; two brothers, Robert Wilson and Cecil Wilson; two sisters, Lillie Shores and Betty Carr; three grandchildren, Andrew Cantrell, Parker Jones, and Brayden Jones.
Manchester Funeral Home is honored to serve the Jones family.
HS BASEBALL: Solid pitching leads Raiders to Saturday afternoon win
Braden Brown and Aiden Robertson teamed up on the mound to all but shut down Rossview as the Coffee County Central Red Raider baseball team picked up a 2-1 win Saturday morning.
Brown allowed one hit and one run while striking out four over one and two-third innings.
Meanwhile, Robertson was solid – not allowing a single hit over five and one-thirds innings. He struck out a pair of batters and walked six.
With such solid pitching and defense, the Raiders didn’t need much offense and they got just enough. Hayden Hullett had a pair of hits, an RBI and a run scored. Nolan Jernigan also had an RBI. Jacob Holder sent one across the plate with a bases loaded walk.
The Raiders dropped their Saturday afternoon game with Blackman 11-1. The Raiders committed three errors and couldn’t keep the Blaze off the scoreboard in a single inning.
Nolan Jernigan had a hit and a run scored for the Raiders, scoring on a Braden Brown RBI.
Coffee County will play a two-game District 8-AAA series this week against Franklin County, beginning Tuesday in Winchester.
The Raiders are now 6-4 on the season.
CMS Raider baseball handles Harris Saturday afternoon
In a make-up game, the Coffee Middle School Red Raiders got four solid innings on the mound from Cole Pippenger and pushed six runs across the plate to drop Harris 6-3 Saturday afternoon.
Pippenger was solid on the mound, striking out 11 batters through four innings of work. He only allowed one Harris hit.
Colter Neel allowed one earned run over two and one-thirds inning of relief, and Evan Kirby pitched two-thirds of an inning and struck out two.
Jase Cashion led the Raiders at the plate with a pair of hits. He also walked once to reach base in all three of his plate appearances. Pippenger scored a pair of runs.
The CMS Raiders remain unbeaten in CTC conference play.
Coffee County unemployment falls again, near pre-pandemic levels
As a further indication the state of Tennessee’s economic turnaround continues, unemployment rates for February 2021 dropped in nearly every county, according to new data from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
Ninety counties experienced lower unemployment during the month. Four counties recorded an increase in unemployment, while Smith County’s February rate remained unchanged from the previous month.
Unemployment rates are less than 5% in 39 of the state’s 95 counties and under 10% in the remaining 56 counties.
In Coffee County, the unemployment rate stands at 4.6 percent. This is down slightly from 4.7 percent in January and slightly higher than the 4.0 percent in February of 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. This makes Coffee County’s unemployment rate just 0 .6 of a percentage point from pre-pandemic levels.
Williamson County continued to have the state’s lowest jobless rate in February at 3.1%, down 0.1 of a percentage point from January.
Moore County recorded the second-lowest rate for the month at 3.4%, a 0.4 of a percentage point drop, followed by Wilson County’s rate of 3.7%, which was down 0.3 of a percentage point.
At 8.6%, Lake County had Tennessee’s highest unemployment rate in February, which was a 0.3 of a percentage point increase from January.
While Cocke County recorded the second-highest rate of the month at 7.8%, that was a 0.7 of a percentage point drop from the previous month. Perry County’s rate of 7.5% was also down month-to-month by 0.5 of a percentage point.
A complete analysis of Tennessee’s February 2021 county unemployment data is available here.
Statewide, unemployment dropped to 4.9% in February, down 0.2 of a percentage point from the previous month.
Unemployment also decreased across the United States during the month. The national February rate was 6.2%, a drop of 0.1 of a percentage point.
There are currently more than 215,000 job openings posted on Jobs4TN.gov. Tennesseans looking for work can find programs to help remove barriers to employment by visiting the virtual American Job Center at www.TNVirtualAJC.com
Manchester BOMA scheduled to address Bonnaroo annexation at Tuesday meeting
Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen will have a regularly scheduled board meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday April 6 at Manchester City Hall.
Among the items listed are multiple resolutions to annex well over 500 acres of land into the city – land that is owned by New Era Farms (Bonnaroo).
Bonnaroo recently requested that the city annex the property.
Meeting time is 6:30 p.m. at Manchester City Hall. See the full agenda by clicking here:
TN legislature working to enhance protections for aging and vulnerable citizens
An important piece of legislation advancing through the TN House is the “Safe Seniors Act of 2021,” House Bill 718.
This bill enhances protections for Tennessee’s aging and vulnerable citizens.
House Bill 718 places elder abuse alongside child abuse as a crime that requires a magistrate to make specific findings before setting bail for suspects arrested on suspicion of abusing older citizens. It also makes it easier for prosecutors to take depositions to preserve testimony of aging and vulnerable people. The legislation modifies current law to recognize that many older and vulnerable people are unable to sufficiently communicate to testify that a specific act was painful. The bill makes accommodations to satisfy the definition of ‘physical harm’ to include acts that would cause a reasonable person pain.
House Bill 718 allows the vulnerability of a victim of abuse a factor that can be considered in cases of rape and aggravated rape. It also allows multiple counts of sexual abuse to be a factor that judges can weigh when deciding whether to impose consecutive sentencing. The Safe Seniors Act of 2021 will assist law enforcement and prosecutors by taking dangerous individuals who abuse aging and vulnerable citizens off the streets. Judges will have the ability to ensure sentences for these terrible acts reflect the severity of the crimes.
House Bill 718 is scheduled for consideration in the Rules and Calendar Committee.
Braves swept in opening series at Philly
It’s not like the Braves haven’t been here before. As they pursue a fourth straight National League East title, they must once again quickly regroup, like they did after being swept out of Philadelphia to start the 2019 season.
Reminded of this after his team suffered a 2-1 loss to the Phillies in Sunday’s series finale at Citizens Bank Park, Braves manager Brian Snitker chuckled and said the season-opening sweeps don’t feel all that similar.
“We got boat raced in three games in 2019,” Snitker said. “We just didn’t hit [this weekend]. We scored just three runs. You’re not going to win many games that way. We’re going to hit. These guys are not going to not hit. They’ve done it their whole career.”
With reigning National League MVP Freddie Freeman and two other MVP candidates — Ronald Acuña Jr. and Marcell Ozuna — the Braves have potential to have one of the game’s best offenses for a third straight season. But through this year’s first 28 innings, their only runs have come from Travis d’Arnaud’s game-tying, seventh-inning homer on Sunday and Pablo Sandoval’s pinch-hit, two-run homer on Thursday.
Freeman went 0-for-9. Ozuna struck out in seven of 11 at-bats and Acuña recorded just two hits in his 12 at-bats. In other words, Phillies pitchers fared a little differently than they did when they allowed the Braves 59 runs over 10 games last year.
Meeker tosses complete game in Raider win
Griffin Meeker went the distance for the Raiders, pitching seven innings and allowing just one run on four hits while striking out seven in a 4-1 win over Loretto Friday in the Riverdale Warrior Classic.
Wyatt Nugent had a single and a pair of RBIs for the Raiders. Aiden Robertson also had a hit and an RBI.
The Raiders now 5-3 on the season. They play Rossview at 10 a.m. and Riverdale at 3 p.m. Saturday. Both games at Riverdale High School.
Birthdays- April 2
Birthdays:
Holly Williams- 30- Pizza Winner!
Jensen Osmundsen- 1
Weekly Winners:
Cake- Mila Dodd