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Early Voting Ends July 30
Early voting is continuing in the county and voting is taking place at the election commission located at the Administrative Plaza in Manchester and at the C.D. Stamps building on South Jackson Street here in Tullahoma. The final day to take part in the early voting is this Saturday. As of Monday afternoon, there had been 1,467 early ballots cast, according to the State Secretary of States web site. Also statistics show that 72 percent of those voting have declared themselves as...
Veterans Program Coming This Fall to Coffee County
To help veterans who have had a problem with the justice system, Coffee County will initiate a new veterans treatment court program soon. The program will be an addition to other recovery programs, such as the mental health and the drug court programs. Judge Craig Johnson will preside over the veterans treatment court, beginning in August. The judge said that after he, the attorney general office, a public defender and some of the mentors complete the necessary training in early September, they will start the program. The program will help men and women who have served in the military....
Franklin County Sheriff’s Department Helps Train in Cowan Tunnel
A rapid response this week by the Franklin County Sheriff’s department, Cowan firemen and CSX personnel to an incident in the Cowan tunnel may have averted a much worse-case scenario.Chuck Stines, with the Franklin County Sheriff’s department, said a train going through the tunnel “went into emergency mode and caused the train to come uncoupled and it lost communication with a helper engine located in the middle of the...
Missing Coffee County Woman Found Safe
Area law enforcement were searching for a missing female on Monday. Kelsey Feck, age 20 was last seen in Shelbyville around 9pm Saturday night (July 23). Kelsey was found safe last night (Monday). The family thanks the public and area law enforcement for their...
Drug Court Program doing well in Coffee County
The Coffee County Drug Court program is continuing to grow with its largest number of graduates since the initiative began more than a decade ago. Coffee County Mayor Gary Cordell says 17 participants graduated earlier this month. Drug court is a two-year treatment program for nonviolence offenders living in Coffee County whose current offense is a result of illegal drug use. Cordell says the program’s success can be measured by those who remain drug-free after completing the program. He says Coffee County has had an 11 percent re-offense rate for those originally arrested on drug charges in the past...
Man Escapes Mental Hospital–Captured in Monteagle
A man escaped from Moccasin Bend Mental Hospital in Chattanooga on Saturday. Chattanooga police said 33-year-old Brandon Robinson was on a law enforcement hold out of Bedford County with the Shelbyville Police Department. Robinson was captured on Sunday morning in Monteagle, according to the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office. Officers responded to a call at McDonalds after a person reported someone had stolen their order straight off the counter. When officers arrived they encountered Robinson in the parking lot in a stolen vehicle. A struggle ensued and Robinson was taken into custody. (Story from WRCB...
Gas Prices keep going Lower
Gas prices are falling at a consistency not seen in nearly two years. On Sunday the average price in Tennessee fell for the 46th day in a row, for a total discount of 27 cents. These are the longest streaks of decline seen at the pump since the period of October 2014 to January 2015, when prices fell 120 consecutive days, According to a spokesman for the AAA – The Auto Club Group “Gas prices are dropping due to abundant fuel supplies and declining crude oil costs. Average prices are 57 cents less than a year ago, and that’s...
You might be owed Money from State of Tennessee
People have called the Better Business Bureau to report letters they received claiming that they are owed money by the State of Tennessee. The letters are in fact legitimate. Every year when the Department of Treasury gets a list of new unclaimed property, the department sends out letters to the last known address of the person who is the owner of the property. “The letters that went out are the first steps,” spokeswoman Shelli King said. “We send these letters out to the last known address we have on file.” Even though it is called unclaimed “property,” it is...
