Josh Peterson

Coffee County Middle golf team put a beating on Harris at WillowBrook Golf Course Monday, May 9, winning 11 flags to 1.

The team of Tallan Crosslin and Lucas Turner won 2 flags to 1. The remainder of CMS pairings won clean 3-0 sweeps: Cade Williams and Skylar Releford; Noah Costello and Luke Lowe; and Brayden Kesling and James Bradley.

Westwood baseball announces tryouts

Westwood Middle School baseball team has announced tryouts for next year’s team.

Tryouts will be held June 9 from 5-8 p.m. at the Babe Ruth Field at Fred Deadman Park.

Tryouts are open to upcoming 5th through 8th graders enrolled in Manchester City Schools for the 2022-23 school year.

Upcoming 7th and 8th graders will tryout from 5-6:30 p.m. and incoming 5th and 6th graders will tryout from 6:30-8 p.m.

Anyone with questions should contact head coach Reed Wolfe at 731-694-6492.

Magnolia Family Medicine opening in Manchester, now booking appointments for June

Magnolia Family Medicine and Wellness – Manchester’s newest family practice – held a ceremonial ribbon cutting with the Manchester Chamber of Commerce last week and is now accepting new patients for June, 2022.

Magnolia Family Medicine offers a wide range of services, including chronic disease management, pediatrics, preventative visits, urgent care, sports physicals, DOT physicals, women’s health, dermatology, weight loss management, hormone replacement therapy and aesthetics.

The clinic is overseen by Dr. Vanessa Green and FNP Niki Chester. They are located at 1402 Willow Dr. in Manchester – next to Marcrom’s Pharmacy. Magnolia Family Medicine and Wellness accepts most insurance and offers friendly self-pay options.

Click here for more about Magnolia Family Medicine and to begin scheduling your appointments starting in June.

Magnolia Family Medicine held a ceremonial ribbon cutting at their 1402 Willow Dr. location on May 5, 2022. — Chamber of Commerce Photo

Saturday May 14 is postal carrier Stamp Out Hunger food drive

Saturday, May 14 is the National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.

The Manchester Postal Carriers will be participating.

To participate, put your non-perishable donations in a bag by your mailbox on Saturday, May 14. Your postal carrier will pickup and deliver to a local food bank.

Tennessee residents may be eligible for TurboTax settlement payments

By Tennessee Public News Service

More than 100,000 lower-income Tennessee residents who paid for online-tax prep services advertised as being free may be eligible for payments, as part of a new nationwide settlement with Inuit, the owner of TurboTax.

Samantha Fisher, communications director for the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office, said people who used TurboTax for tax years 2006 through 2018 may be eligible for payments of around $30 for each year they paid for services, but would have qualified for the free edition.

“Inuit has the eligible consumer contact information already,” Fisher pointed out. “So, you should not have to do anything. You should end up being contacted and sent a payment, sent a check in the mail.”

Inuit came under fire after investigative reporting by ProPublica alleged the company was using deceptive tactics to steer low-income people toward its commercial products and away from federally-supported free tax services.

Attorneys General in every state and the District of Columbia have signed on to the $141 million agreement. As part of the settlement, Intuit admitted no wrongdoing, according to a statement on the company’s website.

Fisher explained Intuit offered two free versions of TurboTax. One was through a partnership with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which allowed taxpayers earning less than $34,000 a year, and members of the military, to file their income tax returns free of charge.

“Then they have this other commercial product called TurboTax Free Edition,” Fisher noted. “And it was confusing for people filing their taxes about which one was truly free.”

Fisher added some settlement money will be used to set up additional resources for consumers.

“As we work through this part of the process, there’ll be a website that will have more information for consumers,” Fisher emphasized. “Especially, for instance, if you’ve moved since the years where this applied.”

Around 195 million tax returns and other forms were filed electronically in 2020, according to the IRS.

Elizabeth “Bea” Lockhart

Mrs. Elizabeth “Bea” Lockhart, age 89, of
Manchester, TN, passed from this life on Sunday, May 8, 2022, in
Manchester, TN.

Miss Bea was born in Hopkinsville, KY, to her late parents Orson Thompson
Cary and Hazel Reynolds Cary. Elizabeth Lockhart, Miss Bea, Grandma, Mom
came to know the Lord in her thirties so she had some catching up to do.
She served the Lord from that day on with all her heart and soul. She
influenced the lives of countless children through her ministry at First
Church of the Nazarene. She served at Good Samaritan helping families with
food, clothing, financial support for many years. She brought several young
women into her home at various times to provide for them and love on them.
She loved big. Her last years at MacArthur Manor were tough but she loved
on the staff and they loved on her. Many, many times over the last months
you could hear the words, I Love you More! And in her heart she did. In
addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Don
Lockhart; daughter, Brenda Farless, grandson, Stacey Lee Floyd.

Miss Bea is survived by daughters, Patricia Stewart and Donna Foster;
sisters, Zoraida Adler and Pauline Hampton; 8 grandchildren, 18 great
grandchildren, 6 great great grandchildren.

Visitation with the family will be held on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, from
6:00pm until 8:00pm at Central Funeral Home in Manchester, TN. Funeral
services will be conducted on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at 1:00pm from the
chapel of Central Funeral Home with Elbert Smith officiating. Burial will
follow in Fredonia Cemetery in Coffee County.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital.

Central Funeral Home is honored to serve the Lockhart family, 931-723-7774,
centralfuneralhome.com

Pete Barnett

Pete Barnett was ushered into the arms of Jesus, 9 May 2022. He died of complications following a stroke. He was proceeded in death by his wife Evelyn Barnett in September 2012.Pete is survived by his 2 sons, Matt and Steve Barnett and their wives, Sheila and Gina. Four grandchildren, Caleb and Joshua Barnett, Chad Barnett and Evie Barnett Ross. Four great-grandchildren, Chad Junior (CJ), Cameron, Abel and Rosie Evelyn Ross. Pete’s extended surviving family that he dearly loved, include Gerald Moore and Dana, Nellie Jane Patrick, Mavis and John Snodgrass, Sylvia and Everett Flick, Bob and Linnay Moore, Paul and Phyliss Moore, Pauline and Fred Buckles and Charles Sturgill. Pete was a member of Grace Baptist Church where he served on committees and served at the Attic Outlet (Faith Based Thrift store) for years. Pete retired from Sverdrup Engineering after being employed from 1964 to 1991. He is known as a Christian man, honest, hardworking and having a great sense of humor. He was instrumental in the education of his sons and grandchildren and always treasured family above all earthly possessions. He will be missed by all that knew him! Visitation for Mr. Barnett will be held on Friday, May 13, 2022 at Kilgore Funeral Home from 5:00-8:00pm. Funeral services will take place Saturday, May 14, 2022 at 11:00am in the Kilgore Funeral Home chapel with Pastor Tim McGehee officiating. Entombment will follow at Rose Hill Memorial Gardens. For those who wish, the family asks that donations in Pete’s memory be made to Grace Baptist Church- 1901 Ovoca Rd. Tullahoma, TN 37388. Kilgore Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Robertson named District pitcher of the year; 4 other Raider baseball players named all district

Coffee County Central Junior Aiden Robertson frustrated opposing district teams all season long at the plate.

Opposing coaches took notice.

The right-handed hurler was named District 6-4A co-Pitcher of the Year Monday night. Robertson went 5-0 in district play, striking out a remarkable 69 batters over 39 innings of work. He led the pitching staff with a 1.26 ERA.

The Raider baseball team had four other players named 6-4A All-District: Brady Nugent, Caleb Moran, Jacob Holder and Cole Pippenger.

The Raiders will host Franklin County in the winner’s bracket finals of the district tournament at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.