Veterans of Foreign Wars All-American Post 10904 will be hosting afundraiser dinner to benefit relief efforts in Ukraine. It will be heldFriday, March 11th at 6 PM at the Coffee County Veterans Building, locatedat 130 Shelton Road in Manchester. This dinner is open to the public and all are welcome to attend. The cost ofthe dinner will be $6.50 per person, with 100% of fundraiser proceedsdirectly benefitting relief efforts through Samaritan’s Purse, which is onthe ground in Ukraine right now. Dinner will be followed by a discussion of current events, facilitated byarea veterans with a wide range of military...

H&R Block Student of the Week Brady Clem and Rosalyn Partin with H&R Block. Join us at Thunder Radio and Rosalyn Partin of the Manchester H&R Block and congratulate our student of the week – Brady Clem. Brady is a 5th grader at College Street Elementary School. He was nominated by his teachers and administrators.  Brady is the son of Andrea Cutshaw and Eric Clem. His favorite subject is math. In his free time, Brady enjoys fishing and playing baseball. He is undecided on what he wants to do when he grows up. All students of the week are...

The deadline to register to vote in the upcoming May 3 Coffee County Primary is fast approaching. Anyone wishing to vote in the May 3 primary must be registered by Monday, April 4. You can register by visiting the Coffee County Election Commission on McArthur St. You can also register to vote from your computer – just click here. Early voting will be April 13 through April...

Republican legislation that could allow for an Amber Alert to be issued sooner in certain cases advanced out of the Tennessee House Children & Family Affairs Subcommittee last week. House Bill 2354, also known as Noah’s Law, would allow a custodial parent to seek a court order declaring their child to be in imminent danger if the child’s noncustodial parent fails to return them in accordance with a current visitation order or parenting plan. The legislation, which could allow for an Amber Alert to be issued sooner, would apply to cases involving pending custody, parentage, child support or dependency...

Unity Medical Center in Manchester has announced that its Rural Health Clinic and Manchester Family Medicine will be joining together in a brand new clinic space located at 482 Interstate Drive – which is directly across from the Unity Hospital campus. The facility has not yet been assigned a name and Unity administrators have announced that they would like for the Coffee County Community to help decide. To enter your name idea for the clinic, click here. The contest is open through March 14th. A prize will be offered to the winning...

Coffee County Central High School junior Jalie Ruehling was involved in an automobile accident Tuesday afternoon that has left her with a broken leg. According to Grundy County Sheriff’s Department officials, Ruehling (who lives in Grundy County) was driving on Highway 50 at approximately 2:30 p.m. Tuesday (March 1, 2022) going up the mountain when it appears another vehicle veered into her lane and struck her head on. “This investigation is preliminary at this time,” Grundy County Sheriff Clint Shrum told Thunder Radio news. “It looks like the other vehicle crossed the center line and struck Jalie’s car. “At...