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Lady Raiders show out at home basketball camp
Coffee County Central Lady Raider basketball has already had a busy summer.
With four starters returning and expectations as high as ever, the Lady Raiders handled business in a home summer camp last week. CHS went 4-0, beating Huntland 65-27, Franklin 57-4, Fayetteville City 64-26 and Page 54-32.
The Lady Raiders are playing the summer without the services of upcoming senior point guard Jalie Ruehling, who is having ankle surgery. Meanwhile, incoming freshmen Natalie Barnes, Audri Patton and Ella Arnold have been picking up some summer playing time along with returning starters Alivia Reel, Chloe Gannon, Channah Gannon and Olivia Vinson. CHS lost one starter from last year’s team – Elli Chumley – who will be playing at Freed Hardeman next year.
CHS cheerleaders to welcome youngsters to cheer clinic June 11th
Coffee County Central Red Raider cheerleaders will host a youth cheerleading clinic from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 11.
Registration begins at 7:45 a.m. The clinic will be held at Raider Academy gym on McMinnville Highway.
Cost to attend is $25. Clinic hosted by CHS Red Raider cheerleaders. A clinic t-shirt is included in registration. Contact Christy Clouse at clousec@k12coffee.net for more information.
Tullahoma police need help identifying person of interest
The Tullahoma Police Department needs your help in identifying a person of interest in an incident that occurred in April 2022. If you know this person (photo below) please contact Detective Karl Pyrdom at 931-455-0530 ext. 112 or at kpyrdom@tullahomatn.gov.
Bonnaroo fast approaching. First festival since 2019 to be held next week
Barring another sudden pandemic, or the remnants of a hurricane barreling through Middle Tennessee next week, Bonnaroo will finally be back.
The annual festival that has brought hundreds of musical acts and hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the world to Manchester in June every year since 2002 has been on pause after the 2019 festival. The 2020 festival was postponed and eventually cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 festival was postponed due to COVID and then cancelled just 48 hours before the opening act due to the remnants of Hurricane Ida coming through Middle Tennessee in September.
But everything appears to be on track for this year’s festival. Traffic in the area will start increasing over the coming days. The festival is set to be held Thursday, June 16, through Sunday, June 19.
Headliners this year include Tool, J. Cole and Stevie Nicks.
Social media drives sales of illicit pills laced with Fentanyl
Story by Nadia Ramligan, TN Public News Service
Online sales of counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl are on the rise, and experts say social media apps like Snapchat and TikTok are driving the surge, including in Tennessee.
Shabbir Safdar, executive director of the Partnership for Safe Medicines, said an alarming number of counterfeit prescription drug pills containing fentanyl are being bought online by teens and young adults.
“And in fact, just in the last four years, we’ve tracked fatalities in 19 different states from people who’ve met a drug trafficker on Snapchat and then bought a fake pill,” Safdar reported.
According to the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, more than 2,000 Tennesseans died of fentanyl-related drug overdoses in 2020, more than double the number in 2019.
Tennessee is one of many states recently passing laws decriminalizing fentanyl test strips in an effort to reduce deaths. The tests work by dipping the strip in water containing dissolved drugs.
Safdar noted he believes strips should be legal, but pointed out they do not always detect fentanyl in large batches.
“In fact, there’s a young man in Tennessee that we profiled in the last couple of years, who he and his friends all order Xanax off the dark Web, and they each took a pill,” Safdar recounted. “It was only this young man’s that had the fatal amount of fentanyl in it.”
Safdar pointed out more Americans are turning to online pharmacies for acetaminophen, aspirin, blood thinners and other routine medications, but said there’s risk in buying products from any source other than a licensed pharmacy.
“During the pandemic, as many as one in seven Americans went online to purchase medication, and many of them went to these fake Canadian pharmacy websites,” Safdar emphasized.
According to a study in the Journal of the American Pharmacies Association, there are more than 11,000 websites based in the U.S. and Canada calling themselves “pharmacies” and selling drugs online.
Charles Gilbert Burchfield
Charles Gilbert Burchfield of Tullahoma passed this life on Friday, June 3rd, 2022 at Brookdale Senior Living at the age of 96. Mr. Burchfield was born in Delano, TN to the late Cecil and Leona Hembree Burchfield. He served his country as a member of the United States Army during World War II, later retiring from the Army Reserves at the rank of Major. Mr. Burchfield was also a graduate of both Bob Jones University and Purdue University. After graduating, Mr. Burchfield worked as an engineer at AEDC, and was a member of First Baptist Church in Tullahoma. In addition to his parents, Charles was preceded in death by one sister, Fay McSpadden. He is survived by his wife, Delia Chaudron Burchfield; two daughters, Patty Nance (Ken), and Elizabeth Stachowicz (Ed); two sisters, Eva Austin (Elbert), and Anne Long; four grandchildren, Shelly Bossom (Craig), Cherilyn Haines (Damion), Emma McCathran (William), and Rebekah Cothron; six great-grandchildren, Dylan, Damon, Wyatt, Jenson, Harrison, and Gracie; and several nieces and nephews. Visitation will be held on Tuesday, June 7 th , 2022 at Kilgore Funeral Home from 11:00am-12:00pm with a memorial service to begin at 12:00pm with Dr. J. Herbert Hester officiating. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to First Baptist Church in Tullahoma with an emphasis on either Children’s Ministry or the Missions Ministry.
Birthdays – June 3
No Birthdays to Report!
Weekly Winners:
Cake – Olivia Kilpatrick
Flowers – Mark & Tracy Tabor -31 Years
Birthdays – June 2
Trey Cole – 8 – Pizza Winner!
Kaitlyn Cole – 2
Jessica Downs
Travis K Jernigan – 60
Birthdays – June 1
Davis McKenzie
Marilyn Howard
Dustin Statum – Pizza Winner!
Summer camp results: basketball
Multiple area teams are involved in summer camps and workouts.
The Coffee Middle Lady Raider basketball team spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Siegel camp. The Lady Raiders picked up wins over Central Magnet, West Wilson and Oakland Middle. Meanwhile, the Lady Raiders lost to Blackman.
The Lady Raiders will host a middle school girls camp at CMS Monday, June 6 and Tuesday, June 7, starting at 9 a.m. each day.