For the second year in a row, the Coffee County government operated with no audit findings in its annual report released by the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury.  This means that auditors did not discover any weaknesses or deficiencies in the entire government operations for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2019.   This is the second year in a row for the County to have no findings, which is rare across the state. It also marked the fourth straight year for no audit findings with the Coffee County School...

Gov. Bill Lee recently announced Tennessee’s public schools will receive $650 million to improve student literacy, support school mental health services, and boost teacher pay and professional development. The state says a significant portion of the funding will be used to purchase high-quality reading materials for elementary-school students and to provide teachers with evidence-based training for literacy instruction. Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn said the state continues to lag behind in teaching kids to read. “We know that only a third of our kiddos are on grade level, reading on grade level in fourth grade. And 27% are on...

Early voting for the March 3rd primary begins Wednesday, February 12, and ends on Tuesday, February 25. Coffee County voters voting in the Republican primary will be selecting a new General Sessions Judge to replace Tim Brock, who passed away late last year. The primary will also include the presidential primary  for both Republican and Democratic parties. Early voting hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 8:30 a.m. until noon on Saturdays in Manchester at the Coffee County Election Commission at 1329 McArthur St. Suite 6; or in Tullahoma at the C.D. Stamps Community Center...

The Tennessee Highway Patrol will be conducting a Sobriety Checkpoint in Coffee County at the area of US Highway 41 at Asbury Road at 11 p.m. on Friday, March 13. The scheduled checkpoint is contingent upon manpower and weather...

Murfreesboro Police Detectives are Investigating a robbery and shooting that took place at 1:34PM Monday (2/10/2020) afternoon at MGM Market, Beer and Tobacco Store at 2415 Halls Hill Pike. The owner of the business was the clerk on duty at the time, and was shot several times in the chest, stomach and arms. Then the shooter stole the injured man’s 2010 black Nissan Rogue and fled (TN license tag 4M7-2B1). Rutherford County Emergency Medical Services rushed the man to the ER at TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center in Smyrna. The victim was later taken to the Trauma Center at Vanderbilt where he...

Severe weather is possible for most of Middle Tennessee Wednesday, including Coffee County.  National Weather Service storm prediction  has placed Coffee County (and most of the mid state, along with northern Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia) under a slight risk of severe weather Wednesday.  While timing is not clear, the NWS office in Nashville says between 6 p.m. and midnight appears to be the main time for a round of heavy rain, local flooding and damaging winds.  The primary threat appears to be damaging straight-line winds and flooding. Tornadoes cannot be ruled...

Coffee County District Attorney General Craig Northcott released a statement Monday afternoon with more clarification to Saturday’s incident at the Manchester Walmart that ended in a woman going to the hospital and later passing away. Thunder Radio News reported to you yesterday that police were dispatched to Walmart Saturday morning regarding a woman behaving erratically. When officers arrived and asked the suspect to walk outside the store, Northcott says the woman escalated the situation and officers were forced to detain her. While attempting to detain the woman, she collapsed. She was taken to Unity Medical Center and later to...