Manchester vice mayor Mark Messick signed a proclamation on Tuesday, May 10, proclaiming May 19, 2022 to be Lemonade Day in Manchester. (see full proclamation below). Manchester will be the second community in Tennessee to play host to a global youth entrepreneurship program that teaches leadership and business skills by encouraging children to launch a lemonade business – the program is simply called “Lemonade Day.” Manchester Chamber of Commerce is working in partnership with the Manchester City Schools to allow fourth grade students to study material, develop individual business plans and, for a day, run a lemonade stand at...

Motlow State hosted its 49th Annual Nursing PinningCeremony on May 6 in the Nisbett Center at the College’s Moore County campus. Pins werepresented to 55 students who have successfully completed the Nursing Program’s graduationrequirements. The ritual of pinning a nurse is a long-standing tradition held at the conclusion of a nursingstudent’s education. The pin is designed to signify the school the nurse attended and is pinnedonto the student’s uniform by nursing leaders who served as an academic leader in thelearner’s clinical journey. The pinning ceremony itself also is steeped in tradition. The students wear the traditionalwhite uniform and cap...

Magnolia Family Medicine and Wellness – Manchester’s newest family practice – held a ceremonial ribbon cutting with the Manchester Chamber of Commerce last week and is now accepting new patients for June, 2022. Magnolia Family Medicine offers a wide range of services, including chronic disease management, pediatrics, preventative visits, urgent care, sports physicals, DOT physicals, women’s health, dermatology, weight loss management, hormone replacement therapy and aesthetics. The clinic is overseen by Dr. Vanessa Green and FNP Niki Chester. They are located at 1402 Willow Dr. in Manchester – next to Marcrom’s Pharmacy. Magnolia Family Medicine and Wellness accepts most...

Saturday, May 14 is the National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. The Manchester Postal Carriers will be participating. To participate, put your non-perishable donations in a bag by your mailbox on Saturday, May 14. Your postal carrier will pickup and deliver to a local food...

By Tennessee Public News Service More than 100,000 lower-income Tennessee residents who paid for online-tax prep services advertised as being free may be eligible for payments, as part of a new nationwide settlement with Inuit, the owner of TurboTax. Samantha Fisher, communications director for the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office, said people who used TurboTax for tax years 2006 through 2018 may be eligible for payments of around $30 for each year they paid for services, but would have qualified for the free edition. “Inuit has the eligible consumer contact information already,” Fisher pointed out. “So, you should not have to do...

A missing person report was filed with the Warren County Sheriff’s Department on Sunday, May 8, on behalf of Damien Gonzales. Gonzales was last known to be transported to St. Thomas Dekalb Hospital in Smithville on April 19. He is reported to be of Puerto Rican descent with tattoos on his forearms, a scar on his forehead with medium skin tone, between 5’6′ and 5’9″, medium build between 190 and 210 pounds. He moved to Tennessee in 2018. He does not have a vehicle or working cellphone. If anyone has any information on his whereabouts, please contact Warren County...

The rollercoaster ride at the pump continues as the Tennessee state gas price average rose above $4.00 per gallon on Friday. Gas prices jumped, on average, 18 cents over the course of last week. The Tennessee Gas Price average  is now $4.08 which is nearly 18 cents more expensive than one month ago and $1.37 more than one year ago.   The average price in Coffee County comes in at $4.01 per gallon, which is 7 cents below the state average and 31 cents below the national average of $4.32. “A tight global oil supply combined with expectations of high summer gasoline demand and rising crude oil...

Manchester’s Old Stone Fort Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars, All-AmericanPost 10904 has taken First Place in the State of Tennessee for CommunityService. This is a significant achievement because the 89 VFW Posts inTennessee are not categorized by size. VFW Post 10904, with 187 members, wasup against much larger Posts . yet took the number one spot with more, andmore impactful, community service than any other VFW Post. Categories judged for this award include:  1. Community Involvement 2. Cooperation with other Organizations 3. Aid to Others 4. Safety and Health training 5. Americanism 6. Youth and Voice of Democracy VFW...