On Saturday, April 26, the City of Tullahoma is coordinating the 1st Rock Creek Spring Clean. Visionaries are needed to help protect this natural resource, have fun, enjoy great food and win cool prizes. “We are excited that the Distinguished Young Woman (DYW) of Tennessee, Courtney Miller has partnered with us to help promote this fun spring clean,” said event organizer, Chad Marcum. “She will be a great asset to our team.” The DYW program national competition will be held in Mobile, Alabama, June 26, 27, 28. Miller will represent Tennessee. Miller will be graduating in May from Tullahoma...

Motlow College will administer the complete Residual ACT Assessment test on May 15, May 21 and June 12. The test will be given from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on May 21 and June 12, and on May 15 from 12:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The test will be administered in room 1046 of the Crouch Center on the Moore County campus. Applicants under 21 years of age planning to attend Motlow State Community College should register for the ACT Assessment. All applicants taking the ACT Assessment must have an admissions application on file prior to taking the test....

The Coffee County Budget and Finance Committee has decided to advise the Coffee County Commission to place a wheel tax referendum on the August ballot. How the referendum would be worded is still up in the air. The Budget and Finance Committee, had asked Vernita Davis head of the election commission if the voters could choose between a wheel tax versus a property tax on the referendum, but Davis said this choice was not an option. She said you could give a choice between a $25 wheel tax versus a $50 tax for example. The concern of the Budget...

The 108th Tennessee General Assembly has adjourned after a session that included the passing of a $32.4 billion spending plan that does not give pay raises to state employees or teachers. Gov. Haslam had planned to give a one percent pay increase to state employees and a two percent raise to teachers, but later said he wouldn’t be able to because of poor revenue collections. The budget is expected to have a shortfall of about $277 million. Legislation that passed included measures to allow wine sales in grocery stores, fight meth production and give high school graduates free tuition...

Tennessee’s unemployment rate for the month of March was 6.7 percent, which is two-tenths of one percentage point lower than the 6.9 percent rate in February. That’s according to Tennessee Labor Commissioner Burns Phillips. The Tennessee rate is equal to the national unemployment rate, which remained unchanged at 6.7 percent. Over the past year, Tennessee’s unemployment rate decreased from 8.3 percent to 6.7 percent. The number of unemployed persons is the lowest since June...

Motlow College is offering the COMPASS Assessment test on the Moore County campus, and the Fayetteville, McMinnville and Smyrna centers. The COMPASS test is a computer testing system and helps determine students’ academic readiness in reading, writing and mathematics for college level work. Test results determine which courses are best suited to the students’ level of readiness. The first initial test is provided free of charge. Students who take the COMPASS test and feel their test results have placed them incorrectly may challenge their initial placement score and retake the test or portions of the test. The college charges...

Manchester has been the home of Little League Baseball for over 50 years; however, it recently underwent a change that would not only alter its name but also the way the game is played in our community. The league is now known as the Manchester Youth Baseball League and when asked what the game changes included, League President Dale Cooper stated that “the biggest difference in the game allows the 11 and 12 year old division to lead off and steal just like a regular baseball game.” This method was tested in the fall of last year and the...

In a follow-up to a story we brought you earlier this week a Coffee County man died in a two-vehicle accident on Monday afternoon. 74 year-old Patricia A McCollough was driving a Coffee County School bus traveling north on Highway 41. The driver of the Jeep Cherokee, 63 year-old Freddie Reynolds was exiting his driveway and was making a left turn onto Highway 41. According to a Tennessee Highway Patrol report the Jeep failed to yield to the bus and pulled into the Northbound lane and was struck in the driver’s side door. Reynolds of Manchester who owned and...