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Scam Warning From The Tullahoma Utilities Board
It has come to the attention of the Tullahoma Utilities Board (TUB) that several utility customers in Tullahoma have received scam calls lately. The caller is spoofing TUB’s phone number. Spoofing is the practice of causing the telephone network to indicate to the receiver of a call that the originator of the call is a station other than the true originating station. For example, a Caller ID display might display a phone number different from that of the telephone from which the call was placed. The caller claims to work for TUB, and is telling customers’ utilities will be...
Haslam Says No Racial Profiling In Tennessee
Gov. Bill Haslam has signed legislation that requires all of Tennessee’s law enforcement agencies to adopt written policies to ban racial profiling. The Republican governor signed the measure earlier this week. It unanimously passed the House 93-0 and was approved 27-0 in the Senate during the recent session. Supporters say the measure is in response to a series of incidents involving white police officers killing unarmed black men over the last year. Previous efforts to require racial profiling policies fell short in the Legislature over the years. Lawmakers in 2005 ordered a comptroller’s study on the role of ethnicity...
National Safe Boating Week, May 16-22
For those headed out on the water, what looks like a perfect day for boating can quickly become hazardous. U.S. Coast Guard statistics show that drowning was the reported cause of death in three-fourths of recreational boating fatalities in 2013, and that 84 percent of those who drowned were not wearing life jackets. Tennessee ranks No. 7 in the nation for boating accidents and No. 6 in the nation for boating fatalities, with 119 boating mishaps causing 20 deaths in the state in 2013. The National Safe Boating Council will kick off its Wear It! campaign promoting safe boating...
Commencement Ceremonies Are Saturday At Motlow
Dr. Frank Glass, former president of Motlow State Community College, will address the more than 700 students who plan to participate in commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 9, according to Dr. MaryLou Apple, president of Motlow College. The ceremonies will be held inside Nisbett Center on the Moore County campus. A resident of Tullahoma, Motlow’s third president, and its first president emeritus, Dr. Glass is a career educator who served the College for 26 years. He has a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and doctorate from Middle Tennessee State University. Dr. Glass was dean of the college before being named...
New Fire Chief For Manchester
George Chambers was voted in as the new fire chief for the city of Manchester on Tuesday night. Aldermen Cheryl Swan, Tim Pauley, Lana Matthews-Sain and Tim Kilgore voted in favor of Chambers. Alderman Russell Bryan abstained and Vice-Mayor Ryan French did not attend the meeting. Alderman Swan says that Chambers is set to take over the department on May 18. Chambers is a career firefighter starting with the Air Force in 1975 and retired from the military in 2004. Following that he was the assistant fire chief at AEDC from 2004-2010 and then left to be a fire...
Scam Warning From Sheriff Graves
Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves has issued a warning about another scam making the rounds in Coffee County. “It has been here in the past but it seems to have started again,” the sheriff said Tuesday. The scammers call an individual poising as a deputy from the sheriff’s department. “They say that they are a deputy and that the person they are calling that they failed to show up for jury duty,” the sheriff said. The fake deputy then tells their intended victim that there is a warrant for their arrest, but to keep from being arrested they can...
May is “National Drug Court Month”
Since 2003 Recovery Drug Courts in Tennessee have offered intensive judicial supervision, substance treatment services, sanctions, and incentives to address the needs of drug-addicted non-violent offenders. The Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse has been providing funding for the courts since 2012. May is “National Drug Court Month” and Tennessee is joining with courts across the country that are demonstrating how a combination of accountability and compassion is the foundation for handling individuals addicted to drugs in the criminal justice system. Douglas Varney, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services says, “By treating those...
Tennessee Residents Remain Concerned About Nuclear Facility
Residents of northeast Tennessee are speaking out against what they say is a questionable safety record of Nuclear Fuel Services, located in Erwin. The manufacturing facility makes materials for the U.S. Navy and for private companies. Recently the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced it was reducing the number of regular safety inspections NFS will undergo, and that concerns Barbara O’Neal. “I was born and raised there,” she said. “It’s really my hometown, and I feel that the people have been told by the NRC for years that everything was OK.” O’Neal recently moved away from Erwin because of safety...
