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We’re Celebrating 60 Years in Business
To celebrate WMSR’s 60th birthday we are creating a page on our website devoted to the radio station’s history. We are looking for any pictures you might have or know of related to WMSR throughout the years. We really, really want a picture of “Mobil Unit 1”!! We also don’t have a pic of the original location when we first went on the air. If you have anything at all please email it to WMSR@thunder1320.com Thank you in advance for your...
CORRECTION–Summer Break Ending–Back to School Time
The summer break from school is almost up as students return to class next week. Coffee County Schools will have an abbreviated day on August 1 as students will be released at 10am. Teachers will have an administration day on August 2 and the first full day of classes will be August 3. Manchester City Schools will have an abbreviated day on August 2, until 9 a.m., with regular classes beginning on August 3. Classes at Tullahoma City Schools will begin August 2 with students being released at 1pm and the first full day on August...
Former Tullahoma Substitute Teacher to be Sentenced
A former Tullahoma High School substitute teacher is scheduled to be sentenced in Coffee County Circuit Court Wednesday afternoon for having sex with a 17-year-old friend of her daughter. The alleged incident occurred in 2006 at a residence in Tullahoma. Susan Gail Stephens was charged with two counts of statutory rape and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The case has been on hold since 2006 while she appealed to the State Court of Appeals and to the Tennessee Supreme Court. She had asked for pretrial diversion which prosecutor Jason Ponder was opposed to doing....
Gas Prices beginning to Climb
Gas prices have been on a roller coaster ride this summer. After rising in the spring, then taking a nosedive last month, pump prices are climbing once again, only to set up for another plunge in the fall. The average price for gasoline in Tennessee rose 3 cents during the past week. The state average on Sunday was $2.05. Fewer than half of gas stations in Tennessee are selling regular unleaded for less than $2 a gallon. So far this year, the price of regular averaged $2.08 in Tennessee; 20 cents more than the same period last year. AAA...
Man Dies from his injures around One Month after he was involved in a Fatal Crash
A Cannon County man has died at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga nearly a month after being injured in a crash that killed a McMinnville teenager. According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, 56 year old Craig Mears of Woodbury has died as a result of injuries he suffered in the crash that happened the night of June 25th on Highway 70 near Centertown. Authorities said Mears was traveling the wrong way in the westbound lanes when his vehicle crashed head-on into a vehicle driven by 16 year old Promise Harrison of McMinnville. She died in the crash. A 14 year...
Alleged Threats at Local Hotel Leads to Arrest
On Friday, (July 21, 2017) a Manchester man was at Quality Inn on the Hillsboro Highway. Manchester Police Officer Alberto Garza received a call about a person causing a disturbance. While police were on their way to the call the hotel clerk called the communications center back and said that the man was trying to get behind the counter and she was afraid he was going to attack her and feared for her safety. According to the arrest warrant, before officers arrived apparently two persons kept the subject from going behind the counter. The man allegedly threatened to shoot...
New Land Management Plans would bring Slight Changes to land around Normandy Lake
Tennessee Valley Authority is in the process of finalizing new land management plans for Normandy and seven other TVA reservoirs, and the final plans will be considered next month by the TVA board. This plan replaces a land use forecast drafted in 2011 as part of a natural resource plan. The environmental review of the land management plans started in February 2016. A draft environmental impact statement was published in December 2016, and TVA held a series of public meetings, including one in Manchester in January of this year, to discuss the land use plans with stakeholders. The land...
Agent Charged with Insurance Fraud in Grundy County
An investigation by Special Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has resulted in the indictment and arrest of a former insurance agent from Hixson, TN with an office in Monteagle. At the request of 12th District Attorney General Mike Taylor, in April 2015, TBI Special Agents began investigating a complaint of insurance fraud against then-insurance agent Steven Ruggiero. During the course of the investigation, Agents learned that in April 2014, the victim purchased workers’ compensation and liability insurance for his Monteagle business from Ruggiero. The victim paid $9,147 for a policy Ruggiero claimed was underwritten by an insurance...
