On Saturday, November 8th from 12-4 PM, the Coffee County Children’s Advocacy Center will be bringing back a popular community event to the newly renovated historic Manchester Square. For a number of years, the Manchester Fire Department hosted a chili cook-off to benefit local organizations, including the Children’s Advocacy Center the final year it hosted the event in 2012. All proceeds from this year’s event will go to supporting the Children’s Advocacy Center and the work that they do for children who are victims of abuse in Coffee County. There will be three $500 prizes awarded on November 8th...

Students from Georgia, Arkansas, Colorado, Tennessee, Kentucky and New Mexico have been elected by delegates from throughout the United States to serve on the 2014-15 National FFA Officer team. Stephen McBride of Tennessee, an agricultural business major at University of Tennessee at Martin, will serve as southern region vice president. McBride is a graduate of Coffee County High School. Each year at the National FFA Convention & Expo, six students are elected by delegates to represent the organization as National FFA officers. Delegates elect a president, secretary and vice presidents representing the central, southern, eastern and western regions of the...

Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have obtained indictments for a Moore County couple accused of killing their newborn child. At the request of 17th District Attorney General Robert Carter and Metro Moore County Sheriff Mark Logan, TBI Special Agents began investigating Robert ‘Blaine’ Roper and Carol Michelle ‘Keri’ Roper on September 23rd. On the same date, investigators with the sheriff’s department received information regarding the unreported death of the couple’s newborn child. Through the joint investigation, TBI and Moore County investigators learned the Ropers, of 3539 Wet Prong Road in Mulberry, had been expecting their second child...

Michael Botticelli, Acting Director of the Office for National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has announced 680 Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program grants, totaling $84 million, to communities across the country. The Coffee County Anti-Drug Coalition was one of the grant recipients and will receive $625,000 in DFC grant funds to involve and engage their local community to prevent substance use among youth. “We are not powerless against the challenge of drug use among young people here in Coffee County,” said Kristina Clark, Executive Director. “Research shows that prevention is the most effective tool we have to reduce the terrible...

Traders National Bank based in Tullahoma with 3 other branch locations has announced the merger with Citizens Bank of Lafayette, TN. The Board of Directors from both banks say they have entered into an agreement to merge the two banks. Under the agreement Traders will be merged into Citizens Bank of Lafayette. The current Traders Bank branches located in Tullahoma, Manchester, Winchester and Shelbyville will continue to operate under the Traders name as branches of Citizens Bank of...