Bonnaroo released Monday the results of a recently completed economic impact study that shows that the festival and its avid patrons put more than $50 million into the local Manchester and statewide Tennessee economies last year. The study reports that the festival generated $36 million in direct expenditures (monies injected into the economy by Bonnaroo attendees during their travel to and from the festival) and an additional $15 million
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
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
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
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
An air conditioning technician for Veterans Heating, A/C, and Electrical was airlifted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center following a single car crash Tuesday on Interstate Drive in Manchester. According to Manchester Police Department Major Bill Sipe at the scene, the vehicle’s sole occupant, Steven R. Bell, of Shelbyville, veered off the roadway, went down an embankment and crashed into a tree line near the wooded area on Interstate Drive
Central High School Lady Raider senior Alaina Lusk smacked a two-RBI single in the sixth inning and Brianna Jones struck out 10 in the circle en route to a 7-0 win over Cookeville in the winner’s bracket finals of the District 6-AAA tournament in Cookeville Tuesday night. The win puts CHS in the district title game at 5 p.m. Thursday night in Cookeville and guarantees a trip to the Region
During Thursday’s town hall meeting at Manchester City Hall, Republican Congressman Diane Black, speaking to a conservative crowd, deferred blame for the continuing sequestration cuts on the Senate. “Unfortunately, we were not able to get the Senate to agree with us on going in and replacing the sequester with what we thought were commonsense cuts,” Black said in response to a question about lost jobs due to sequestration. “Twice
By Brian Justice, staff writer A recent Facebook posting by Coffee County Commissioner Barry West called “How to Wink at a Muslim,” showing a man in a cowboy hat pointing a side-by-side double barrel shotgun at the camera, could have a positive twist. The story about West’s Facebook post soon went viral, spreading across the Internet like wildfire, garnering attention from dozens of news sites and blogs worldwide, including Untied
Bonnaroo released Monday the results of a recently completed economic impact
As graduation approaches for Coffee County Central High School, two senior students
Bonnaroo released Monday the results of a recently completed economic impact
As graduation approaches for Coffee County Central High School, two senior students
The Central High School Lady Raiders took a 1-0 lead into the
The Central High School soccer Raiders made it farther in the postseason
Staff Writer John Coffelt The local workforce received a one-day manpower boon
EDITOR Josh Peterson For the past few years, Central High School government