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Duck River Co-op Warns Of New Scam Aimed At Commercial Accounts
Scammers are threatening convenience stores in Franklin County with disconnection unless they pay Duck River Electric Membership Corporation (DREMC) bills for August that they claim were not processed due to a “glitch in the system.” The calls came from an 801-prefix telephone number. In each case, the female caller blamed a problem with the payment processing system and said that, unless the stores could resubmit the August amounts due, a “technician” would be sent to pull the meters. The caller promised that the payments would be reimbursed when the processing system was back on line. The store owners became...
41-A Music & Arts Festival Is Friday and Saturday
Canadian country-rocker Dallas Smith will headline this year’s 41A Music and Arts Festival, set for the streets of downtown Tullahoma, Sept. 26 and 27. Currently touring with Florida Georgia Line, Smith is scheduled to play on Friday, Sept. 26, following country songwriter Logan Mize, who’s single “Used Up,” was recently a “Highway Find” on the popular Sirius XM satellite radio country music channel The Highway. Classic country Johnny Collier Band, folk rocker Rob Aldridge and rock cover band Phat Tuesday, as well as return appearances from Shelbyville singer-songwriter Kacey Smith and rock party band Granny Low. Catherine Murray’s musical...
Tullahoma Utilities Board To Host Public Power Week Celebration
Tullahoma Utilities Board (TUB) will host its annual Public Power Week Celebration on Thursday, October 9th from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. The event is a way for TUB—and the community—to celebrate decades of reliable public power. TUB is one of more than 2,000 other electric utilities that collectively provide electricity on a not-for-profit basis to 45 million Americans. Public Power Week is a national, annual event that originated 28 years ago. It is sponsored in conjunction with the American Public Power Association (APPA) in Washington, D.C. APPA is the service organization for community and state-owned electric utilities. The event...
Motlow Tennessee Promise Event Set For Tuesday
Tennessee high school seniors who plan to graduate in 2015 are invited to attend ‘The Promise Begins at Motlow’ at the Motlow College Fayetteville Center on Tuesday, Sept. 30. The event will be held inside room FC 023 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. ‘The Promise Begins at Motlow’ is designed for Tennessee high school seniors to apply for the Tennessee Promise, which allows 2015 graduates to attend Motlow College tuition-free. The Motlow admissions application fee of $25 will be waived for high school seniors who attend the session and complete both applications. The Tennessee Promise is an opportunity for...
Great Start To Red Raider Band Season
The Coffee County High School band competed this past Saturday (Sept. 20) in a band competition at Hendersonville High School. The Red Raider band won 2nd place in their division and 4th overall. This is a very strong showing for Coffee County, especially this early in the season. The Coffee County band only missed 1st place in their division by less than one point. Want to see the band perform? Come on out to the football game tonight at Carden-Jarrell...
Manchester Man Dies In Bulldozer Accident
58-year old Ricky L. McCurry from Manchester died this week after the bulldozer he was operating at Eagleville High School in Rutherford County somehow overturned. Officials with the Tennessee Highway Patrol said McCurry was killed when his bulldozer overturned and landed on top of him. Because of the severe injuries McCurry received, officials decided not to airlift the Coffee County man but instead transport him to Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital in Murfreesboro by ambulance, where he was pronounced dead. Multiple agencies, including the THP, Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office and the Tennessee Operational Safety and Health Administration were investigating the...
Tombstone Found In South Dakota, Stolen From Coffee County
South Dakota authorities have returned a stolen Tennessee, tombstone discovered in Spearfish, SD and inscribed with the inscription, “We shall meet again.” The words on S.J. Elliot’s 1888 tombstone matches those on his wife’s tombstone near Manchester, Tennessee. Elliot’s tombstone had been reported missing a month earlier to the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office, more than 1,300 miles from Spearfish. Spearfish, SD Police Officer Kale Nelson says a resident found it in an alley during a motorcycle rally. The city’s cemetery determined that it came from Tennessee by using Google. Nelson says it will probably remain a mystery how the...
Kids Moving Out of Booster Seats: Too Many Too Soon
Kids often want to act like grownups, but experts say having children ride in cars the way mom and dad do is something that should be put off for as long as possible. A new study from Safe Kids Worldwide finds the majority of parents are moving their children to seat belts before they are big enough. Organization president and CEO Kate Carr says that’s troubling because booster seats can reduce injuries by 45 percent over seat belt use alone. “If there were to be a crash and they weren’t in a booster seat, but just in a regular...
