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Coffee County EMS Helping AEDC
Coffee County EMS is temporarily leasing an ambulance to Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) emergency services after a contract was negotiated. The leasing agreement will last until the used ambulances AEDC recently acquired have been refurbished and gone through the inspection process. The maximum time Coffee County EMS can lend the ambulance to AEDC is 90 days for $60 per day. The ambulance Coffee County EMS is leasing is not their oldest ambulance, but the one with the most mileage at around 184,000 miles, but it does have a new...
Man Trying To Burglarize a Home Held at gun Point until Police Arrive
On Monday November 30th at approximately 11:30 Franklin County Sheriff’s Office personnel responded to 305 Maxwell Road, Belvidere, TN. A report filed by Deputy Kason Bolin stated that a complaint was called in to the Franklin County Communications Center and the caller advised a man had forced his way into the home of the complainant. Further investigation revealed that the suspect in the case had appeared on the complainant’s property demanding to be granted access into the home. The homeowner advised the subject to vacate the area immediately and leave him alone but the suspect continued to demand access...
Scam Alert!
A new scam is working in Coffee County and the sheriff’s department is warning area residents. According to Investigator Jason Dendy a local person receives a call from an unknown caller claiming to be from Publishers Clearing House. The scammer tells the intended victim that they have won a prize. The scam artist then tells the person they need to meet a UPS driver in the Wal-Mart parking lot with a Green Dot credit card loaded with a certain amount of money in able to claim the prize. Dendy advises to not give any money to anyone and contact...
Tullahoma and Manchester Christmas Parade Information
Tullahoma Police Department Lieutenant George Marsh advises that motorists should take alternate routes Friday starting at 5:00p.m., December 4 to allow the Stan McNabb Tullahoma Chamber of Commerce 59th Annual Christmas Parade to proceed north on Jackson Street. 5:00 p.m.- the Tullahoma Police Department closes Jackson Street to northbound traffic at Carroll Street as the parade entries line up. Volney, Decherd, Warren, and Lauderdale Streets will also close at Jackson at 5:00 p.m. At approximately 6:15 p.m., Jackson Street will be closed from Lauderdale to Jack Farrar Lane, and all intersections will closed: Big Springs, Wilson Avenue, Grundy, Moore,...
Motlow College Taking Corrective Measures Over Email Issue
In a recent effort to inform current Motlow State Community College Tennessee Promise students of the impending Dec. community service deadline, the College sent an email to Motlow State employees only, which inadvertently included an attachment containing some personal student information. The original email was intended to alert College employees who may know a student using the Tennessee Promise to contact that student and inform them of the impending deadline. All Motlow State employees are subject to student privacy policies mandated by the Tennessee Board of Regents. To further protect student’s privacy, the College immediately began taking corrective action...
Gas Prices Predicted To Remain Below $2 At Least Through Christmas
Last week, motorists enjoyed the lowest Thanksgiving gas prices in seven years (2008). Gas prices declined throughout the holiday weekend, as was forecasted by AAA. Some non-AAA analysts attempted to grab headlines by forecasting that the national average would dip below $2 in time for the holiday, but that did not happen, as the national average on Thanksgiving Day was $2.05 – 75 cents lower than the year before. “Gas prices have been falling at a rate of about a half cent a day, and if that pace continues, the national average will drop below $2 in the next...
Tennessee Must Accept Refugees, According to the Attorney General
The Tennessee Attorney General has released an opinion saying the state cannot refuse to accept people the federal government has admitted to the country as refugees. The opinion was requested by State Representatives John Ray Clemmons, Jason Powell and House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Stewart after calls by state lawmakers to deny entry to Syrian refugees who are vetted by the U.S. government. The attorney general says “such a refusal would impinge on and conflict with the federal government’s authority to regulate the admission of aliens to the United States and thus would violate the Supremacy Clause of the...
Forty Years and Forty Trees!
The Dig n Dream Garden Club’s annual gift to this community, The Trees of Christmas, is on display now at the Ada Wright Center in Fred Deadman park. The Club has presented Forty Years of the Trees of Christmas; and they celebrate that tremendous feat with forty trees displayed this year. The event truly is a gift, as there is no charge or fee-admission is free to all. Marking the forty-year milestone with a special letter of appreciation, Westwood Middle School Principal Chad Fletcher, presented the letter to the Dig n Dream Garden Club, paraphrased here: “Undoubtedly, this endeavor...
