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The annual Memorial Day Ceremony will be held Monday, May 28th, at 11 AM on the Square in downtown Manchester.
The event pays deserving respect to those who have given their all for the liberties and freedoms we hold dear. Scheduled speakers are State Representative Judd Matheny, representatives from Coffee County, the City of Manchester, Arnold Engineering Development Center, the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
This will be a brief but educational and enlightening ceremony. The public is encouraged to attend. Bring your friends, family, children and neighbors. Seating is limited so arrive early, as these ceremonies are almost always standing-room only.
In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be held in the Coffee County Veterans Building at 130 Shelton Road in Manchester.

The dental health care for Tennesseans ranks among the worst in the nation, which has sent more patients to the emergency room and caused more adults to lose teeth to decay and disease.
A survey performed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed declining dental visits in Tennessee and an increase in the number of people who have lost at least one permanent tooth.
That puts Tennessee at 47th in the nation for dental health, The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.
Tennessee doesn’t cover dental care for Medicaid enrollees 21 or older, and Michele Johnson with the Tennessee Justice Center said that doesn’t leave many options for people without insurance.
County health departments provide dental care for children, but only emergency dental care for adults.

The Coffee County Rescue Squad and The Coffee County Ambulance Service is partnering in hosting: Friends and Family CPR.

This program is intended for members of the general public who would like to learn basic CPR.

This program is non- credentialed – no course card will be awarded, but an attendance card will be issued along with a course booklet for your completion of this class. There will be three (3) different class times on this date. Please RSVP for which class time you would like to attend.

Call and leave message at the Rescue Squad building (931) 728-1785. Theclasses will be held at the Coffee County Rescue Squad, 2270 Murfreesboro Highway Manchester this Saturday May 26th.

Class Times: 10am till 11am, 1pm till 2pm, 3pm till 4pm.

The County Technical Assistance Service recently completed an in-depth analysis of Coffee County’s Emergency Medical Service.  The results included several weaknesses and a few scathing deficiencies on the part of upper and middle management. Gary Hayes, lead consultant for CTAS, presented the report Thursday to a joint meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee, Ambulance Authority, and Emergency Medical Service (EMS) directors. In addition to management deficiencies, the report also found low morale among employees, partly stemming from their notoriously low pay that we reported in February on WMSR. That report showed starting EMT’s at only $7.85 an hour lower than Bedford, Giles, Lawrence, Cannon, Dickson, Lincoln, Warren, Roane, and Grundy Counties.

Around 8:30pm Friday evening a man and a woman were traveling west on Wayside Road.  The male driver claims to have reached down to change a CD, then went off the road and struck a power pole. The driver of the truck was wearing a seatbelt and was uninjured. The passenger was not wearing a seatbelt, and she struck the windshield with her head. She was taken to a local hospital complaining of head and neck pain. The power pole was broken completely off and will have to be replaced. The Tennessee Highway Patrol was in charge of the scene.

Final preparations are underway for this year’s Bonnaroo. Local law enforcement, ambulance personnel and EMA officials have been meeting with officials of the promoters to review the routes that will be used to get festival goers to grounds and other plans of services. The 11th annual festival will be held June 7-10 and will attract attendees from all over the country and some foreign countries as well.

The Coffee County Emergency Communication District has filed a federal lawsuit against AT&T, demanding $76,000 in service charges. The suit claims that the phone company has billed the communication district in excess of the number of phone lines for which the company reported and remitted 911 charges.

A Bedford County judge has ruled the mother who sent her adopted son back to Russia must pay $1,000 a month in child support and thousands more in court costs and past fees associated with the case. Torry Hansen was living in Shelbyville in April 2010 when she sent her then-seven-year-old son on a plane alone back to Moscow with a note that said the boy was violent and she no longer wanted to keep him. A judge ruled earlier this year that Hansen is liable for child support and that she must also pay damages to an international adoption agency. In a court hearing, the judge ordered Hansen to pay $1,000 a month in child support until the boy turns 18, $150,206 in past fees and $62,735 in associated courts costs. The boy now lives in an orphanage.

Dollar General Stores will be adding a 6th location in Coffee County. The newest store will be located on Highway 55 in Northeast Coffee County in the Summitville Community. The company currently has 2 stores in Manchester, one on the Woodbury Hwy in New Union, one in Hillsboro and one in Tullahoma. The Goodlettsville-based discount retailer says it company has enjoyed strong sales over the past several years.