The Franklin County Sheriff’s Department is issuing a warning to everyone in the area regarding counterfeit bills. The department is encouraging everyone to take extra precaution when receiving cash for business transactions because counterfeit bills have been located. Anyone with information or concerns should contact their local sheriff’s department, in Coffee County the number is...

With the Lynchburg Music Fest coming up on August 23rd and 24th in Lynchburg, the Moore County School District has announced it has closed schools for Friday, Aug. 23 out of concern for student safety. The first year festival features headliners Jamey Johnson, Easton Corbin, Montgomery Gentry and over 40 more acts. There will also be Manchester acts at the festival, including Macy Tabor, Sarah Pearson and Becky Buller...

Coffee County Schools will hold its 5th annual student expo this upcoming Saturday, July 27th at Coffee County Central High School. Doors will open at 9 a.m.  The annual event is designed to provide students in Coffee County Schools from prek through seniors in high school with all necessary items to begin the new school year. To take advantage of the expo, students must be present on the day of the event and must be enrolled in coffee county schools. Some items of note that will be dispersed are shoe vouchers for the first 500 students, free groceries, free...

Authorities are looking for the persons responsible for damaging the soccer field  at Johnson Lane in Tullahoma sometime Saturday night. Videos and photos show the fields were damaged by some sort of vehicles, leaving the fields unplayable. Anyone with information on who damaged these fields is encouraged to contact the Tullahoma Police Department at 931-455-0530. There has been a gofundme page setup to collect donations to repair the fields and to improve security and hopefully catch the vandals – you can donate by clicking here. There is a $500 reward being offered for information leading to catching the...

The attorney for Justin Shea Bautista-Jones has filed a motion to have District Attorney General Craig Northcott disqualified as the special prosecutor in the case against state house speaker Glen Casada. The motion states that Northcott should be disqualified because of his lobbying relationships with the state general assembly and his social media posts  that came to light in recent months that appeared to contain anti-muslim and anti-gay comments.  You may remember the case against Casada where the speaker’s office has been accused of tampering with evidence to allegedly frame Bautista-Jones for violating bond – Bautista-Jones was charged with assault...

As of now, the City of Manchester will move forward with a new greenway that will start behind the Manchester-Coffee County Conference Center, run through the Great Stage Park Property – better known as Bonnaroo – and then end on Bushy Branch road with a trailhead available to walkers and runners.  Back in 2018, the city received one million dollars in grant funds from TDOT (specifically to extend the Greenway) that required a $300,000 match and the plan was to connect the greenway from where it ends now, behind Riverview Alternative School, extend it toward great stage park and eventually to...

Back in May of this year a Russian aircraft flew over Arnold Air Force Base for an observation flight as part of the Open Skies Treaty.  According to AEDC officials, the flyover was part of a mission allowed under the open skies treaty, also known as the treaty on open skies, which was signed by 34 participating nations in 1992, which permits each state party to conduct short-notice, unarmed observation flights over the others’ territories to collect data on military forces and activities. These flights contribute to security by enhancing openness and transparency among the signed parties. The Russian...