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Controversy surrounds CHS after exchange students told they can’t participate in graduation ceremony

Posted on May 17, 2013 at 5:19 pm

As graduation approaches for Coffee County Central High School, two senior students who thought they would be celebrating with their classmates and walking the line on graduation night have learned that they won’t be allowed to do so. Foreign exchange students Caio Guimaraes from Brazil and Sigrid Eek from Norway were told Thursday by CHS administration that because they weren’t earning a diploma from CHS, they won’t be allowed to

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Staff Photo by Nick Trail- Senior Chelsea Howell (18) and the CHS Lady Raiders celebrate their 6-0 section win over Lincoln County Saturday night. The victory allows CHS to compete in the TSSAA BlueCross Spring Fling for the first time since 2000.

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL POSTPONED: Lady Raiders to host Riverdale Saturday for trip to state tournament

Posted on May 17, 2013 at 7:43 am

The Central High School Lady Raider softball team hosts Riverdale at 7 p.m. Saturday in a contest that will decide which team advances to the TSSAA BlueCross Spring Fling State Tournament in Murfreesboro next week. The game was originally scheduled for Friday but was rained out. A win for Coffee County would mean a trip to the  Spring Fling in back-to-back years for the first time since the 1999 and

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  • The story of Cody Holder: From ball to books

    Posted on May 15, 2013 at 2:29 pm

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        C ody Holder’s last pitch was 86 miles per hour. It wasn’t on a dusty baseball field somewhere in Middle Tennessee or on a rocky practice field somewhere in the outskirts of Coffee County. It was a hot June day at Bonnaroo, of all places. “I was at Bonnaroo and they had the fastest pitch machine up there,” said Cody, sitting in his wheelchair, waving his right arm

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  • Man accused of murder returned to Coffee County from Calif.

    Posted on May 14, 2013 at 9:01 am

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      By Wayne Thomas, staff writer A 41-year-old Grundy County man accused of killing a Maple Springs Road man has been returned to Coffee County and is in the county jail under a $1 million bond. Troy Lynn King, 41, was indicted by the March term of the Coffee County grand jury for first-degree murder, felony murder and theft over $1,000. U.S. Marshal’s Service arrested him without incident on March

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Coffee County's Ricky Ramirez goes after the ball as time expires at Smyrna. (Staff photo by Milton Stanley)

Raiders fall in sectionals to Smyrna

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 5:26 pm

The Central High School soccer Raiders made it farther in the postseason than any Coffee County school has ever done before, but the season finally ended Saturday with a 4-0 loss at Smyrna in a sectional match. Sectional competition winnows the top 16 teams down to the eight that move on to the state tournament next week in Murfreesboro. The Red Raiders kept to their game plan of playing the

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  • Givens resigns as Raiders basketball coach

    Posted on May 17, 2013 at 5:05 pm

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    Central High School boys basketball coach Scott Givens announced his resignation today after four years of coaching and teaching in Coffee County. Givens will take a position as assistant boys basketball coach at South Forsyth High School in Cumming, Ga., northeast of Atalanta. He will be assisting head coach Manson Hill, who won back-t0-back Georgia state girls basketball titles at nearby Gainesville High School in 2003 and 2004. Givens assisted

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  • HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL POSTPONED: Lady Raiders to host Riverdale Saturday for trip to state tournament

    Posted on May 17, 2013 at 7:43 am

    Staff Photo by Nick Trail- Senior Chelsea Howell (18) and the CHS Lady Raiders celebrate their 6-0 section win over Lincoln County Saturday night. The victory allows CHS to compete in the TSSAA BlueCross Spring Fling for the first time since 2000.

    The Central High School Lady Raider softball team hosts Riverdale at 7 p.m. Saturday in a contest that will decide which team advances to the TSSAA BlueCross Spring Fling State Tournament in Murfreesboro next week. The game was originally scheduled for Friday but was rained out. A win for Coffee County would mean a trip to the  Spring Fling in back-to-back years for the first time since the 1999 and

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Coffee County Middle School student CJ Frazier hits the ground running Monday job shadowing County Mayor David Pennington, left. Pictured with them are executive Rox-anne Patton and 911-board member Joe Hinch. (Staff photo by John Coffelt)

Job shadowing opens windows into local careers: CCMS student sits in on OSF Golf Course meeting with mayor

Posted on May 14, 2013 at 10:54 am

Staff Writer John Coffelt  The local workforce received a one-day manpower boon of up to 340 students job shadowing Monday from Coffee Middle School. “This is a great program because it gives them a window into the real world,” said CCMS guidance counselor Gina Cleek about the program. She said that the eighth grade puts a lot of work into career exploration. Students registering for classes at Central High School

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  • Obama sends correspondence to CHS gov’t class

    Posted on May 14, 2013 at 10:45 am

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    EDITOR Josh Peterson  For the past few years, Central High School government teacher Andrew Taylor has had his students write letters to various public officials requesting them to come speak to the school. Over that time Representative Scott DesJarlais and State Representative Judd Matheny have made the trip to speak. Senators Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander have had office representatives contact the school. But this year the most powerful man

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  • Serving up some hands-on advice

    Posted on May 7, 2013 at 11:55 am

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    Budding chef offers CHS culinary arts classes a peek into life at top chef school “I go into class and it’s like a having a full-time job, but I go into class excited everyday [to be] cooking.” –Tori Perry  By John Coffelt, STAFF WRITER Coffee County Central High School culinary arts students last week received a peek into nation’s elite Culinary Institute of America, at Hyde Park, N.Y., through a returning

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Bonnaroo announces full comedy lineup for 2013 festival

Posted on March 28, 2013 at 11:09 am

Superfly and A.C Entertainment are proud to announce that the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has confirmed an exceptional comedy lineup to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the festival’s hugely popular Comedy Theatre. In keeping with tradition, Bonnaroo, which will take place on its 700-acre farm in Manchester, TN, from June 13 – 16, will host a vibrant and diverse collection of national headlining comics at its inimitable air-conditioned venue,

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  • Westwood students show the right stuff for prototype STEM aviation program

    Posted on March 19, 2013 at 11:32 am

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    By John Coffelt,Staff Writer Nineteen seventh-grade students at Westwood Middle School Middle School are getting some pretty intensive flight training each week during a new after-school program sponsored by Arnold Engineering and Development Complex’s STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) Center.   The students, made up of an equal mix of boys and girls handpicked for the program by Westwood science teacher Deb Wimberley, are the first locally to participate

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  • Manchester Rec. Department to hold Easter egg hunts March 23

    Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:48 am

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    Manchester Parks and Recreation department will hold its spring egg hunt on March 23. The 2-7-year-old’s hunt   will be held at 1 p.m. at Fred Deadman Park The 8-12 year-old’s hunt will be at 8 p.m. at the Babe Ruth Field at Fred Deadman. This hunt will take place in the dark; please provide your child with a flashlight. All participants must bring their own basket or bag to hold

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