The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has arrested Carolyn Bell Jones, 60, of Coffee County, for allegedly embezzling thousands of dollars from her employer while she was working as the company’s bookkeeper. She was taken into custody Wednesday after being indicted earlier this month by the Coffee County Grand Jury. She is charged with one count of theft over $60,000. The TBI began investigating possibility of missing funds after the owners
By Marian Galbraith Staff Writer After a tense hearing with the Coffee County Ambulance Authority and attorneys on both sides, Trans Med Inc. owner Jamie Henderlight was given the green light to continue providing non-emergency ambulance services in Coffee County. Despite what Authority members deemed an “unfortunate” breakdown in communication, they agreed that Trans Med’s quality of service had never been a problem, but expressed frustration and disappointment that a
Longtime Coffee County School Board member Ricky Milburn passed away Sunday. He was 66. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday. Milburn, who spent over 30 years as a member of the Coffee County School Board, had been battling health complications. He died at Baptist Hospital in Nashville. According to his obituary information, Milburn held a degree in industrial technology and entered the Army Corp of Engineers as
By Marian Galbraith Staff Writer Now it’s official. The Coffee County Commission voted Tuesday to build a new jail. They not only passed a formal motion to build, but also approved the purchase of the building site on Hillsboro Highway south of Interstate 24, contingent upon final environmental reports regarding wetlands issue. Commissioner Chris Bird, who chairs the Jail Review Committee, said the preliminary estimate was roughly $19.9 million plus
If there is one thing coach David Muckle realized Tuesday night in the game against White County, it was that no lead is safe. CHS saw a 27-18 lead evaporate, as White County outscored the Lady Raiders 18-8 in the fourth quarter to steal a 36-35 victory Tuesday night in Manchester. “It’s very disappointing. We led 95 percent of the game. We just didn’t finish the deal,” stated Muckle. Free
The Coffee County Central Lady Raiders started slow, but thrived in the fourth quarter scoring 18 points to defeat the Cookeville Lady Cavaliers 33-27 Tuesday night inCookeville. “The girls really wanted to win this game,” stated CHS head Coach David Muckle. “Our pressure defense really helped create some offense for us tonight.” The Lady Raiders trailed 21-15 at the start of the fourth quarter, but the Lady Raiders outscored
The Coffee County Central Lady Raiders slow start in the second half cost them a chance at victory, as they were defeated 46-36 by the Cumberland County Lady Jets Friday night in Crossville. “We really struggled in the third quarter. We just couldn’t get shots to fall,” stated CHS head coach David Muckle. “It really hurts from a defensive standpoint when we can’t score, because we can’t extend our defense.
A welder with Highways Inc. of Brentwood, prepares to cut away one of the large girders supporting the old Highway 41 bridge, currently being replaced as a part of a $5.06 million project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Built in 1931, the bridge (above), officially dubbed TN 16SR0020011, but known to many as the green bridge, was rated as sound but “functionally obsolete” by state inspectors as
What county schools are doing to help with a silent need Tonight, three children in the Coffee County Schools district will go to sleep not knowing for sure where they will spend the next night. Thirty-three more are in families with no house to call their own – that depend on the generosity of others to offer them a warm place to sleep. “Most of the [county’s homeless] aren’t out
Coffee County’s Dusty Elam Foundation is a quiet source of assistance for those with special needs. It has been long road for Nick Trail, Manchester Times sports writer, to get his driver’s license. Longer, in fact, than it took to earn his master’s degree from the University of Tennessee. Nick, 28, was born with cerebral palsy, a disease that has made things most people take for granted, difficult if not
New non-fiction Once a Warrior, Always a Warrior: Navigating the Transition from combat to Home – including combat stress, PTSD, and mTBI, 616.852 HOG, by Charles W. Hoge, addresses a generation of combat veterans returning from two major conflicts. This book, by the expert on physical and psychological combat injuries, helps returning combatants learn to incorporate the instincts learned in combat into everyday life. With approachable language, it shares the
New Fiction 77 Shadow Street, F KOO, by Dean Koontz takes place at in a turn-of-the-century palace, the dream home of an old-world tycoon. But 77 Shadow Street has a marred history of madness suicide mass murder and legends of things worse. All of this stopped in the mid-1970s when the house was renovated unto an apartment complex. Until now. Master storyteller, Koontz brings back the haunted house genre
New DVDs Rise of the Planet of the Apes, DVD F RIS, directed by Rupert Wyatt and starring James Franco and Mumbai model Freida Pinto of Slumdog Millionaire, explains the rise of the ape culture in the franchise. Franco plays researcher Will Rodman who develops an Alzheimer’s disease cure that gives primate test subjects radically increased intelligence. The experiments go awry when a chimp injects his fellow subjects with the
By Marian Galbraith Staff Writer After a tense hearing with the Coffee
Longtime Coffee County School Board member Ricky Milburn passed away Sunday. He
A welder with Highways Inc. of Brentwood, prepares to cut away one
What county schools are doing to help with a silent need Tonight,