At least two branches of the U-S military are wearing clothing from a company right here in the Tennessee Valley Tullahoma Industries began in 1999 after purchasing the assets of a casual clothing manufacturer in Gruetli-Laager. The vast majority of its 110 workers are involved in two military items that are MADE IN GRUNDY COUNTY. Tullahoma Industries makes two very popular clothing items for the U.S. Military. They make the Generation 3, Level 5 jacket for the Army, and they do a flame-resistant coverall for the Navy. The pre-cutting of material is shipped in daily from the plant’s auxiliary...

Tullahoma’s Anderson Street will be closed in the 400 block on Wednesday and Thursday of this week for construction. CSX Railroad Company will be replacing the rails at the road crossings. Traffic will be routed to South Polk Street. Residents are urged to avoid the area if...

The number of obese Tennesseans could double by 2030. The Annual “F as in Fat” report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America’s Health looked at data from the last two decades to predict future trends. By the year 2030, the study says more than 63 % of Tennessee residents will be obese. That would make Tennessee the fourth fattest state in the nation. One of the authors of the report says the future numbers are based on how many Tennessee children have serious weight issues...

The 41-A Music and Arts Festival is the main fundraiser of the Highland Rim Kiwanis Club. This two day street festival, held in the Historic Downtown District of Tullahoma has been heralded as a “Tullahoma Institution” by the Tullahoma News. The event is set for Sept. 28 and 29. The goal of the 41-A Festival is to provide fun, family-friendly entertainment through local, regional and national musical and visual artists while raising awareness of the Kiwanis mission of “changing the work, one child at a time”. The 41-A Festival also showcases a variety of vendors offering a range of...

The friends of Tyrin Blake Rippy of Tullahoma, age 15, held a Candle Light Vigil at Westwood School Sunday night. Rippy attended Westwood in middle school before moving to Tullahoma. Many people throughout the day on Sunday said the young man was taken from us way too soon. Rippy and his friend Nicholas Beasley were involved in a car crash in Tullahoma early Sunday morning. Former teachers, coaches and his friends said Tyrin was a smart, fun living boy. Funeral services will be announced later....

One teenager is dead, and a second one is in Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville after a single vehicle crash Sunday morning around 3:20 a.m. off of Highway 130. According to police a Jeep operated by Nicholas Beasley hit a tree in a field on Hwy 130 killing Tyrin Rippy, age 15, of Tullahoma. Beasley was flown to Vanderbilt Medical Center, where he is undergoing medical treatment. Tullahoma Police Officer Sgt. Robert Weaver investigated the crash. Rippy was a sophomore at Tullahoma high School but played middle school football at Westwood in...

Two Chattanooga men have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery in Coffee County, Tenn., on Saturday afternoon. Mario A. Moore and Charles Duntay Gray are charged with aggravated robbery, according to Coffee County dispatchers. Moore also was charged with evading arrest and reckless endangerment. Gray has an additional charge of possession of marijuana. According to Investigator Chad Partin of the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department, Moore and Gray walked into the Barton Springs Grocery store on Normandy Lake at little after 1 p.m. CDT. Moore pulled a handgun on the store owner and demanded money. As the men...

A Tullahoma man has been sentenced in the vehicular homicide of his best friend last year. Michael Allen Duty, 30, of Wesley Street Tullahoma was sentenced to 10 years but to serve only a year in the county jail. Duty was accused of the Sept. 2, 2011 death of Louis William Alford Jr. on Matts Hollow Road. According to authorities, Duty was driving a Ford F-150 along Matts Hollow around 10:30 on Sept. 2, 2011 when said that he swerved to miss a car and struck a utility pole, injuring him and killing Alford. Duty allegedly told police that they...