The City of Tullahoma is asking residents to vote for the name of the new Tullahoma outdoor aquatic complex. Residents are invited to cast their vote at or http://www.tullahomatn.gov. The final five nominations include Splash Landing, Splash Down, Splash Lagoon, Splash Island or The Splash. Cast your vote now through June 5, 2015. In April, Mayor Lane Curlee invited the community to assist the city by submitting names for the new pool. The names listed on the ballot are a result of the names submitted from that contest. The person who nominated the winning entry will win 30 free...

On Monday night during the Manchester City School board meeting interim Director of Schools Dr. Sandra Morris announced the resignation of Director of Schools Dr. Keith Brewer. Brewer had been on an extended medical leave before his resignation. The board voted to keep Morris as acting director for one year under her stipulation that a director search begins in January of 2016. The school system’s 2015-16 budget will be $13.1 million with a surplus of $1,823. Several positions were cut from the school system including some in the central office and school personnel. In a 3-2 vote, the board...

This week is Tennessee Rescue Squads Week and the Tennessee Association of Rescue Squads encourage all citizens to join them in this worthy observance. The members of the 105 squads of the Tennessee Association of Rescue Squads, including Coffee County tirelessly give of their time and energy in humanitarian efforts and make themselves available every hour of the day, every day of the year to help save lives. The Tennessee Association of Rescue Squads is concerned with accident prevention and works to promote research which will serve to advance techniques of rescue squads and lifesaving work throughout our state....

Women seeking an abortion in the state of Tennessee will now have to wait 48 hours after consulting with a doctor before coming back in for the procedure. Governor Bill Haslam signed the measure, which was sponsored by Republican Sen. Mae Beavers of Mt. Juliet, into law late Monday. Doctors who fail to comply with the new law could face misdemeanor or felony charges. Currently, Tennessee is among 28 states that require women to undergo some sort of a waiting period before having an abortion. Haslam also recently approved a measure making facilities or physician offices be licensed as...

Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has signed Tennessee’s $33.8 billion annual budget plan into law. Haslam spokesman David Smith said the governor signed the appropriations legislation this week that establishes spending priorities for the spending year that starts July 1. The plan does not include the first installment of a $2.8 billion plan to extend health insurance to 280,000 low-income Tennesseans. Haslam’s Insure Tennessee proposal would have had state hospitals cover the $74 million state share to draw down the money, but fellow Republicans in the Legislature twice rejected efforts to allow the governor to proceed with the deal. The...

A lawsuit has been filed against the City of Tullahoma and Coffee County government. The suit was filed in Coffee County Circuit Court by a former inmate at the Coffee County Jail. Terry Justin Vaughn was working on May 14, 2014, while serving time in the county jail, perform law care for a cemetery at the Citizens Cemetery located on Montclaire Street in Tullahoma. Vaughn was told to weed eat the cemetery around a tall concrete gravestone. According to the lawsuit, the gravestone fell over crushing Vaughn’s leg. “The gravestone was not attached to the base, but rather just...