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New App For Job Seekers
Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips has announced a new iPhone and Android mobile app that makes finding available Tennessee jobs even easier. The free mobile application brings thousands of employment opportunities to smart phones with advanced location and sharing features. The new app’s functionality will allow users to access the entire Jobs4TN Online Services database on an iPhone or Android device, search for a job based on current location using the unique “Jobs Nearby” function, and pinpoint jobs on a map for easy reference. Users may also save and share their favorite jobs via...
Board of Regents Looking At New Ways To Charge Students For College Classes
The Tennessee Board of Regents is taking a look at how students are charged for classes. Nashville Public Radio reports the board wants to encourage students to take more credit hours without reversing a 2009 decision. Six years ago, any additional classes past 12 credit hours, or about four classes, were offered free to students. After deciding that wasn’t fair to part-time students, the board began charging for the extra classes. Officials say because of the change, many students have stopped taking more than 12 credit hours per semester. The board’s chancellor, John Morgan, says this means they’re taking...
Former Coffee County Coach Brad Weir Arrested In Chattanooga
Former Coffee County head baseball coach Bradley Weir is in trouble again and this time it’s for a totally different reason. Police in Franklin County were searching for Weir, who allegedly threatened to kill people at the Blue Gill Grill restaurant just outside Coffee County. He threaten people at the restaurant with an assault rifle. He was arrested in Chattanooga on Sunday and charged with domestic violence. Sgt. Chris Guess with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office says that according to a report, Weir got into a fight with his ex-girlfriend’s husband at the Blue Gill Grill. The domestic dispute...
18-Year-Old Charged In Stabbing
Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have arrested and charged a Moore County man following a stabbing on Friday in the Lynchburg area. At the request of 17th District Attorney General Robert Carter, TBI Special Agents began investigating the incident, which occurred Friday morning at a home on Pleasant Hill Road. The victim, an 18-year-old man, sustained multiple stab wounds and was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for treatment. During the course of the investigation, Agents, working with investigators from the Metro Moore County Sheriff’s Department, developed information leading to the victim’s friend, Daniel Myers, as...
County Schools Need More Funding
It’s that time of year, budget time for government entities and the Coffee County school system says it needs more money for the 2015-16 school term. According to our news partner the Manchester Times, Dr. LaDonna McFall Director of Schools is asking the county for an extra $1.4 million. “The school system cannot keep functioning with no additional money,” McFall told the Budget and Finance committee at a recent meeting. The proposal calls for a 2 percent raise across the board, totaling $434,346. Also in the budget are four new teaching positions, totaling $224,892, and a series of additional...
Drive To 55″ Plan Working In Tennessee
Gov. Haslam’s initiatives to boost postsecondary education degrees in Tennessee are showing success. Recent enrollment figures show high interest in three programs the governor launched as part of his “, which aims to increase the percentage of Tennesseans with a degree beyond high school from the current 32 percent to 55 percent by 2025. About 58,000 high school graduates have applied for the program that offers free tuition at any of the state’s community colleges or colleges of applied technology. The other two programs are geared toward adults. A push to provide free tuition at the state’s technology colleges...
Classes For Family Members of Those With Mental Illness To Be Held In Manchester
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Family Members of Those With Mental Illness are Invited to Participate in an Upcoming With Hope In Mind class. The Coffee County Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) will be sponsoring and teaching an educational course, “With Hope in Mind” for persons who have a loved one with a mental illness. The 16 -hour course will cover a variety of mental illnesses, including bi-polar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, ptsd and others. Symptoms, treatment options, available medications and their side effects, community resources and more will be among the issues...
Men Win Lawsuit Against Former Employer
Four men from Grundy County have won a lawsuit against their former boss. Dennis Byers, Greg Smartt, Leslie Brent King, and Clarence T. Birdwell, plaintiffs in a wrongful firing lawsuit against Grundy County Road Supervisor Dwayne “Turkey” Hargis, were victorious in their case. The men, employees of the Grundy County Highway Department at the time of their firing, will receive $200,000 in damages based on the humiliation and embarrassment incurred as a result of the actions of Turkey Hargis. Byers, King, and Birdwell were fired by Hargis for not supporting him in the May 6 county election. When they...
