tnAchieves is needing 35 more mentors out of a total of 84 from Coffee County for the Tennessee Promise program to ensure each student has a local support system. tnAchieves partners with Gov. Haslam’s Tn Promise to recruit mentors to work with more than 60,000 Tn Promise scholars from the graduating class of 2018. Mentors spend about one hour per month working with a group of students to help eliminate the barriers associated with the transition from high school to college. Mentors attend one-hour training and two one-hour meetings with the students at the high school. The rest of...

Tennessee’s 2017-18 gun hunting season for deer opens Saturday, Nov. 18. Deer gun season has the traditional opening date of the Saturday prior to Thanksgiving. During gun season, sportsmen may also use muzzleloader or archery equipment. The season will continue through Jan. 7, 2018 and the second Young Sportsman Hunt is Jan. 13-14. Anyone born on or after January 1, 1969 is required to carry proof of satisfactory completion of a hunter education class or be in possession of the Apprentice Hunting License (along with other required licenses) while hunting any species in...

The Tullahoma Community Pride Foundation cordially invites you to attend the lighting of the George Orr Memorial Christmas Tree next to the caboose on Saturday, November 18. Festivities will begin about 4:15pm with the lighting at 4:30pm. Hot chocolate will be provided along with holiday music. They will also be collecting toys for the fire department’s Toys for Tots drive. Tullahoma Community Pride Foundation hopes you will be able to attend this annual celebration to start the season and make it a new tradition for your...

Authorities say the two men who were killed in the crash of a small plane Tuesday night have been identified. Warren County Sheriff Jackie Matheny said the Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the victims as Thomas Stiles of McMinnville and Larry Banks of Spencer. This is not Larry Banks of Manchester. According to a check of the flight plan, the plane, which was owned by AW Stiles Contractors, took off from Monroeville, Alabama Tuesday afternoon at 4:24. It was headed to the Upper Cumberland Regional Airport near Sparta, where it was scheduled to land at 6:19 that evening. The...

Beware of a financial scam aimed at Tennessee veterans. This time the scam is extending to their family members as well. There have been reports of people using multiple schemes to get money from military families. According to the Better Business Bureau there are over 100 active scams in our area. BBB president Jim Winsett says most of these scams are from telemarketers trying to sell a service they cannot provide. Scammers typically focus on the elderly or military veterans. In recent years scammers have started targeting family members of those who are deployed. As the holiday season approaches,...

Tennessee cities can do better when it comes to improving the lives of its veterans. Two cities in the Volunteer State are in the bottom 50 of a national ranking of best cities to live for veterans in a survey released by survey-giant WalletHub. Nashville is ranked 62 and Memphis is 96th. Analyst Jill Gonzalez says access to jobs and a higher than average homeless veteran population are what contributed to the city’s ranking. “Memphis is in the bottom five and it really comes down to quite a few things,” she notes. “I think veterans know that it could...

Veterans Day was celebrated on Saturday on the square in Manchester. The program is presented by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and Disabled American Veterans. Many veterans, citizens and the families of veterans were in attendance. The ceremony honored those who have or are still serving our country. Sergeant Major Larry Williams U.S. Army was the guest speaker and the Westwood Middle School band played a medley of military songs to honor the veterans in...