Coffee County School System is taking extra days off this week to help alleviate COVID-19 concerns circulating within the system. The school system will now be closing on Monday, Aug 30 through Wednesday, Sept. 1. This combined with already scheduled days off on Sept. 2 and 3 (Bonnaroo) and Sept. 6 (Labor Day) and two weekends, will give the system 10 consecutive days off in hopes of curbing spread of the COVID-19 virus among students. In-season extra curricular activities such as sports will continue to happen as scheduled. Manchester City Schools plans to continue ahead with normal schedule but...

Forecast rain totals for this week due to remnants of Hurricane Ida. Graphic by National Weather Service. Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana early Sunday morning as a category 4 hurricane, and remnants of the storm are expected to impact Middle Tennessee as early as late Monday evening. National Weather Service issued a flood watch for much of Middle Tennessee that takes effect late Monday through early Wednesday. NWS added that slight shifts in the storm’s track could significantly change what areas receive the most rain and severe weather threats. As of Sunday, National Weather Service predicts much of...

Your Community Radio Station – Thunder Radio – is partnering with Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival to become the official station of Radio Bonnaroo for the 2021 festival. What does that mean? At 6 a.m. Tuesday, Thunder Radio programming will transition to Bonnaroo Radio programming and will remain that way until noon on Monday, Sept. 6. Radio Bonnaroo will feature Bonnaroo music, artist interviews, emergency announcements for festival goers, traffic information and more. “This is a great way to connect Manchester’s locally owned radio station with the Bonnaroo festival,” said Thunder Radio co-owner Josh Peterson. “We are excited for...

The annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival returns to Manchester Sept. 2-5 – with gates opening as early as Tuesday for some campers. This year, in an effort to alleviate traffic congestion, Bonnaroo had campers select Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday to enter the festival campground area. By doing so, organizers hope to avoid long lines of festival goers lining up at the gates. This year’s festival is sold out. Traffic patterns will be altered somewhat for this year’s festival. TDOT closed the temporary “Bonnaroo 112” exit that was allowing some traffic to exit directly off the interstate into the...

Coffee County School System announced Thursday that it would be taking extra days off over the coming week to help alleviate COVID-19 concerns circulating within the system. The school system will now be closing on Monday, Aug 30 through Wednesday, Sept. 1. This combined with already scheduled days off on Sept. 2 and 3 (Bonnaroo) and Sept. 6 (Labor Day) and two weekends, will give the system 10 consecutive days off in hopes of curbing spread of the COVID-19 virus among students. In-season extra curricular activities such as sports will continue to happen as scheduled. Thunder Radio News reached...

Leaders with the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department, Manchester Fire Department and Circuit Court Clerk’s office set out earlier this week to collect one tractor trailer load of items to take to flood victims in Humphreys County. Goal accomplished – and then some. Overrun with donations from Coffee County good Samaritans and donations pouring in from counties as far away as Lincoln County, organizers took three tractor trailers full of donations to Humphreys County late Wednesday afternoon. Items donated ran the gamut from dog and cat food to diapers, foods, Gatorade, shovels, sun screens, hygiene items, water and other necessities....

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public’s help in locating Bobby Ray Damron. According to LCSD, Damron is a sex offender who is required to report and be monitored by state probation, which he has failed to do. He currently has a parole violation and a violation of sex offender registry warrant for his arrest, Possible locations include Lincoln and Franklin County areas. If seen please contact the Lincoln County Sheriffs Office Immediately at:...

As Tennesseans continue to rejoin the workforce, all but one of the state’s 95 counties experienced lower unemployment in July, according to new data from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Sixty-two counties had unemployment rates lower than 5%, while rates were 5% or higher, but less than 10%, in 32 counties. Unemployment was above 10% in one county. In Coffee County, unemployment in July fell to 4.4 percent, which is down nearly a full percentage point from the 5.3 percent in June. This is well below the 8.1 percent unemployment of July 2020. Williamson County continued to...