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State Assessments and Coffee County Schools
Press Release: Changes in state assessments for students in Tennessee have occurred on a somewhat regular basis; in fact, some people may claim that changes were put in place for which our schools were not prepared to follow. Case in point: the online testing situation in 2015-2016. Although many school systems prepared to assess their students in grades 3-8 and grades 9-12 students enrolled in classes with End of Course tests in English/Language Arts and Mathematics, the promised online platform was not ready. To add insult to injury, the pencil-and-paper format of the TNReady assessment was not shipped in...
Unemployment Rate Up in Tennessee
Tennessee’s preliminary unemployment rate for September has risen in the state’s latest reports. The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development said Thursday that the preliminary rate for September was 4.6 percent, up two-tenths of a percentage point from August’s revised rate of 4.4 percent. The U.S. preliminary rate for September was 5 percent, up one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month. Tennessee’s unemployment rate has fallen from 5.6 percent a year ago to 4.6 percent. Nationally, the rate is down from 5.1 percent to 5...
Beware of Bank Scam
Officials at First National Bank of Manchester are warning customers to ignore a text message being sent to its customers – and some non-customers – that is an attempted scam. The scam message will say First National Bank of Manchester Alert Contact 724-824-0095. THIS IS A SCAM! The message is a scam and anyone receiving that text message should not contact the number. The bank already knows the information being solicited by the scam and would not ask for...
Tullahoma Police say Child Abduction was Fabricated
The Tullahoma Police Department has concluded the investigation into the alleged Attempted Abduction reported on Saturday, October 15, 2016, at the old West Middle School on South Jackson St. As a result of the investigation, information was gained, and statements obtained, indicating the incident did not occur and was a fabrication. In consultation with the District Attorney’s Office, Carmin Fults of Sewanee has been served a summons to appear in the Coffee County General Sessions Court on Thursday, November 3, 2016, alleging Filing a False Police report. In addition, the fourteen year old male has been served a Juvenile...
Tullahoma Teen Charged with Murder
A Tullahoma teen has been charged with a murder that occurred Aug. 15, 2016 in Tullahoma. Ariel Chambers Jr., 16, was arrested Thursday on charges of second degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and aggravated assault resulting in a death. Tullahoma Police Detectives Johnny Gore and Tyler Hatfield charged the teen in the stabbing death of Carlos Joseph Harris Jr., 21, of Tullahoma. According to Tullahoma Police, Harris was found with a stab wound to the upper chest at the Dossett Apartments. Chambers was booked in at the Rutherford County Juvenile Detention Center awaiting further court...
Tullahoma Man says he was Attacked by Juveniles
A Tullahoma man reported to police that he was assaulted by six male juveniles while sitting at Frazier McEwen Park. Micheal Eugene Perry of Chestnut Ridge Road reported on Oct. 17 to Officer Josh Leverette that he was sitting under the pavilion by the volleyball nets when six males approached him. He stated that one of the males struck him with a big limb on the right side of the face. He said that the others then began to kick him numerous times. He told the officer that after he was struck on the top of the head he...
Shelbyville Officer Cleared of any Wrongdoing in Shooting Death of Subject
The Shelbyville Police officer who shot and killed a suspect aiming a gun at him Aug. 24 has been exonerated by the October term of the Bedford County grand jury. Lt. Fred Harvey of the Shelbyville Police Department was leading a group of officers into an East Lane Street travel trailer where Jeffrey Darren Hosea, 53, was holding his teenage son at gunpoint, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Shelbyville police. Officers saw Hosea pick up the .45 caliber handgun and point it at Harvey, the first officer to enter the residence. (Shelbyville...
3-Star Health Plan Could Foster Healthier Economy
The Tennessee state lawmakers who return to Nashville after the presidential election are expected to take up the issue of the 3-Star Health Plan put together by a task force earlier this year. In addition to providing health coverage to people in the state currently ineligible for TennCare or those in the coverage gap, the plan also is structured to provide employment services. Katie Alexander, field director for the Tennessee Justice Center, explains the need. “Especially for folks who have mental health disability, two-thirds of the people with mental health disability who are not working want to be working,”...
