The commander of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex headquartered at Arnold AFB has directed the reconfiguration of gates and installation of barriers in preparation for a possible labor dispute. The Air Engineering Metal Trades Council, and the National Aerospace Solutions, LLC, the test, operations and sustainment contractor at Arnold AFB, have not agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement which would replace the current bridge agreement set to expire June 30. The AEMTC represents approximately 625 employees from 11 trade unions. The two parties have been negotiating the new CBA since February. Should the current agreement lapse, the AEMTC...

We reported recently that the Industrial Board of Coffee County had officially launched a search for a new executive director. Current Executive Director Ted Hackney has served in that capacity for many years and agreed to stay on until a committee decided on their next move, if any. The board last week decided in a 6-2 vote to give Hackney a new one-year contract. The agreement will include no change to Hackney’s current compensation or benefits, provided by the county. But after the initial one-year term, any renewal of the contract agreement would necessarily take into consideration the results...

A Grundy County school board member was arrested Monday night for public intoxication, indecent exposure, false reports/statements and resisting arrest. Amanda ‘Kasey’ Anderson was arrested after an early morning phone call on June 27 which led deputies to her home. An unknown male caller called 911 dispatch and reported a domestic situation. The call was lost and dispatch pinged the phone because the caller once called back but would not give his name and address. Deputies responded to the residence in Pelham, and found evidence of a domestic situation had occurred and Amanda ‘Kasey’ Anderson who became uncooperative was...

On Sunday (June 25, 2017) Clifford Joe Mangum age 60 of Stroud Dr Manchester allegedly entered a residence at 43 Poplar Lane Tullahoma without permission. The arrest warrant states that Mangum removed items without the owner’s permission. Coffee County Deputy Ben Sneed went to the subject’s residence and as deputies approached the residence Mangum allegedly went out a rear window and ran into the woods. He was captured and charged with driving on revoked/suspended license, aggravated burglary, theft of property, resisting stop/halt/frisk/arrest or search. Mangum’s bond was set at $18,500 and he will appear in court on July 24,...

Authorities say a man has drowned after his kayak overturned on the Collins River Sunday. According to the Warren County Sheriff’s Department, Ernest Wade age 59 of McMinnville was kayaking the river with a family member Sunday morning when his kayak overturned near the Shellsford area. The family member was unable to find Wade after he went under the water. Personnel from the Warren County Rescue Squad and Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency searched for several hours before finding Wade’s body late Sunday...