In a meeting this week the Manchester City Board of Education voted to totally dismiss the $1.4 million sales tax lawsuit against the Coffee County government. The board voted to dismiss the litigation with prejudice so this means the Manchester city school eliminates the possibility of the lawsuit making another appearance in the future. In the original suit the Manchester City Board of Education said that the county had improperly kept sales tax dollars from 1983 to 2007 that belongs to the city school system. The suit noted that the State Comptroller’s annual comprehensive audit of the county shows...

VIAM Manufacturing located in the Interstate Industrial Park is holding a job fair on Wednesday. They are looking to fill over 50 openings for different positions including machine operators for the Manchester and Tullahoma areas. If you are interested, interviews will be held, Wednesday, June 24th between 8:00 a.m. and 11 a.m. at VIAM located at 157 Parktower Road in Manchester. You must first apply at www.resourcemfg.com before showing up for a personal interviews. They ask that you bring two forms of...

On Sunday (June 21), a male subject was the operator of a vehicle that was stationary with his emergency flashers on located at Interstate 24 westbound near the 127 mile-marker in Coffee County. Upon approaching the vehicle, Tennessee State Trooper Jason Boles observed a male and female performing an inappropriate act. Further investigation revealed the female to be 15 years of age and the male to be Johnnie C Weems, 35 of Oakgrove, Ky. He was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor by transporting the juvenile out of state without her mother’s consent or knowledge. Weems...

The national average price for regular unleaded gasoline slipped 1-cent since last week’s AAA Gas Price Brief and is currently $2.79 a gallon. The average remains significantly lower than on this same date last year (-89 cents). The national average declined by fractions of a cent for six consecutive days. Meanwhile the price in Tennessee has also declined six consecutive days. Last week, the price of oil averaged $59.89 – 20 cents cheaper than the week before, marking the first weekly decline in three weeks. During the week, WTI oil settled as high as $60.45 a barrel on the...

More than 5,000 airplanes are in Tennessee, and at this point their carbon emissions are unregulated by the federal government. Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that greenhouse-gas emissions from airplanes should be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Vera Pardee, staff attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, said it’s about time. “They are a very large feature of American transportation, and they’re not regulated,” Pardee said. “Trucks are, buses, every car, every passenger car is currently regulated, but the airline industry has been able to just sneak under the radar screen.” Pardee added that while the EPA’s...

Brad Weir, the former Coffee County teacher and baseball coach recently had domestic violence charges conditionally dismissed in Franklin County. Weir, 44 now living in East Ridge, TN was arrested on charges that were the result of an alleged incident that occurred May 3 at the Bluegill Grill on Tims Ford Lake. Weir’s domestic violence charge was dismissed after a conference with the victims, Kellie Campbell and Larry Campbell. Weir’s case will be continued on June 7, 2016, and if there are no further problems the case will be totally dismissed. Weir was ordered to stay away from the...

A Coffee County man was booked in at the Coffee County Jail last week, charged with domestic violence and violation of an order of protection. Phillip Wayne Coppinger faces those charges after an alleged incident involving his wife. Deputy Charles Taylor, received a call of a female attempting to get away from a male subject at Par 4 Market, on the McMinnville Highway in Manchester. While enroute Taylor was advised that the man had left the Par 4 parking lot traveling eastbound on McMinnville Highway in a gray Dodge van. After traveling toward McMinnville Taylor had no contact with...