Tullahoma Police Department officials are asking for the public’s assistance to identify a male and a female subject, both are persons of interest regarding an incident back in August. The suspects were allegedly observed taking several items from a local business. If you have information about these subjects, contact detective Johnny Gore at 931-455-0530 ext. 131 or email jgore@tullahomatn.gov. ...

Kelsey Ketron, daughter of Rutherford County Mayor Bill Ketron, entered a plea agreement Monday that keeps her from serving jail time. Ketron, 29, pleaded no contest to 15 total counts that related to facilitation of fraudulent insurance acts, theft of property, forgery and impersonating a licensed professional. She has been placed on eight years of state-supervised probation and was fined $10,000 and will need to complete 300 hours of community service. Ketron owns 49 percent of the Universal Insurance agency, while Bill Ketron owns the remaining...

Tuesday,  February 25 is your final day to vote early for the upcoming March 3 primary. Early voting began on February 12 and ends on Tuesday, Feb. 25. If you do not vote early, you will be able to vote on election day, which is March 3. Those wishing to vote early can do so in Manchester at the Coffee County Election Commission office, located at 1329 McArthur St. Suite 6 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Voters in Tullahoma can vote from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. at the CD Stamps Building. If you wait until election day,...

Manchester Police Department has released its annual report for 2019. The 25-page report touches on a myriad of statistics, financial information and staffing levels. Here are a few of the highlights. Calls for service were virtually identical in 2019 compared to 2018, up only a half a percentage point with 16,977 total calls. However, arrests were actually down 10% as officers made 1,250 arrests compared to 1,390 in 2018. Total citations issued saw a steep increase – up 25 percent  when compared to 2018. In 2019, Manchester Police issued 4,141 total citations, that number is up from 3,314 in...

Manchester’s Board of Education has entered into a contract  with Lashlee-Rich, Inc to oversee a $4.1 million expansion project at College Street Elementary School. The project is being operated as an at-risk contract, meaning that any project overruns will be covered by the contractor. If the total project is less than the amount of $4.1 million, the district and the city benefit from the savings. The project means the addition of four classrooms to the school and a new kitchen. The existing kitchen and the cafeteria will be remodeled to flow together and expand seating. “The school has just...

The Coffee County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the theft of a white box trailer from the Beech Grove area on Tuesday morning, Feb. 18. The truck with the trailer appears to be a silver colored Nissan Frontier with a luggage rack. The vehicle could be from Cannon or Rutherford County, according to sheriff’s officials. Anyone with information should contact Coffee County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. James Sherrill at 931-570-4404. See a photo of the box trailer below....