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Jack and Reba Walters have been named Volunteers of the Year by Partners for Healing. They have volunteered their services at the free medical clinic for the county’s working uninsured one weekend a month for the past five years. -- Staff Photo by Marian Galbraith

‘Dedicated couple’ named Partners Volunteers of the Year

Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:07 pm

By MARIAN GALBRAITH Staff Writer   Jack and Reba Walters of Tullahoma have received the Volunteers of the Year Award for 2011 from Partners for Healing. According to the clinic’s director Theresa Myers, the married couple has donated one Saturday of every month to Partners for Healing, a free health clinic for the working uninsured in Coffee County, for over five years. “Their dedication and commitment has been outstanding,” Myers

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Members of the Project Stratosphere crew are, from left, Lauren Brown, Robert Freeman, Grant Pruitt, leader Adam Stuart and chronicler Faith Jones. — Photo Provided

Young filmmaker captures Earth images

Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:17 pm

By FAITH  JONES Special to The News   “Project Stratosphere.” That’s the name of a unique experiment that ended with stunning success, thanks to the efforts of a determined group of forward-thinking young people led by Adam Stuart, a 2011 Tullahoma High School graduate. The project took flight this year on Feb. 18 when budding filmmaker Stuart and his crew launched a weather balloon from Tullahoma carrying a camera to

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  • Good Sam to help job seekers with Career Day

    Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:01 pm

    By MARIAN GALBRIATH Staff Writer   Attention job seekers: next month, the Good Samaritan Ministry of Tullahoma will host a Good Samaritan Career Day featuring the “Career Coach,” a 35-foot bus equipped with computers, Internet access, and instructors to help people write resumes, train for interviews and land a job. The “Coach” will be parked at Northgate Mall on Friday, June 8, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. to train

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  • Businesses, industries helped by TUB evaluation program

    Posted on May 12, 2012 at 10:57 am

    By ANDREA AGARDY Staff Writer   The Tullahoma Utilities Board (TUB) is well-known for the power, water, sewer and LightTUBe services it provides to homes and businesses throughout Tullahoma. What may be less well-known is a service the utility offers to its commercial and industrial customers that can help their bottom lines. TUB partners with the TVA to offer commercial and industrial customers an expert evaluation of their operations courtesy

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Tullahoma sophomore Justus Sheffield throws in the second inning of Monday's 3-2 win over Siegel. Sheffield pitched all seven innings. (Photo by Robert Holman)

PREP BASEBALL: Jordan Sheffield hits walk-off homer to lift Tullahoma over Siegel

Posted on May 15, 2012 at 2:27 am

TULLAHOMA – Jordan Sheffield’s walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh inning lifted Tullahoma to a 3-2 victory over Siegel Monday night in the semifinals of the Region 4-AAA baseball tournament. Sheffield’s solo shot over the left field wall came just moments after the visiting Stars rallied to tie the game at 2-2 in the top of the inning. At Grider Stadium’s Jerry Mathis Field, Sheffield put his own

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  • PREP SOCCER: Columbia derails Wildcats 8-AAA title hopes

    Posted on May 12, 2012 at 12:19 pm

    Tullahoma High School Wildcats logo

    COLUMBIA — Columbia Central snapped Tullahoma’s five-game winning streak and with it claimed the District 8-AAA boys soccer tournament championship Thursday night in Columbia. The Lions got an early goal and held on for a 1-0 victory. Tullahoma (9-2-5) will now go on the road to play in the semifinals of the Region 4-AAA tournament. The Wildcats play at Riverdale (10-2-3) at 7 p.m. “It was a tough loss; however,

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  • TRACK & FIELD: Tullahoma sends 20 to sectional meet

    Posted on May 12, 2012 at 12:14 pm

    Twenty athletes from Tullahoma High School’s track & field team qualified for the TSSAA state sectional meet following last week’s sub-sectional in Murfreesboro. There will be 10 girls and 10 boys from the THS track teams competing Tuesday at Riverdale High School in an effort to advance to the TSSAA Spring Fling. Last week Tullahoma had five first-place finishers, with several netting personal best times. Tullahoma coach Maurice Shaw was

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Ann Smotherman

Motlow art instructor’s work featured in McMinnville library

Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:07 pm

The artwork of Ann Smotherman, a Motlow College instructor and native of McMinnville, is featured until June at the Magness Library on Main Street in McMinnville. The show, entitled “Garden Inspirations,” includes over 40 paintings in oil and watercolor in addition to some limited edition prints. Smotherman has been an instructor at the Moore County campus for over 20 years and is currently teaching art appreciation classes at the McMinnville

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  • Kids get creative for art show

    Posted on May 12, 2012 at 12:58 pm

    The Tullahoma Fine Arts Center recently welcomed local artist Annie Rone as the center’s new facility coordinator. Rone has high hopes for the cen-ter’s future and hopes to share with a public the unique and artistic vibe that the center has to offer. To kick off her position as coordinator, TFAC will host a Children’s art show from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 19. All works on exhibit will include that of children who have taken classes at the art center and with Rone.  							-Staff Photo by Kali Bolle

    By KALI BOLLE Lifestyles Editor   Hard work is about to pay off for art students at the Tullahoma Fine Arts Center. The center will exhibit the children’s creations in the upcoming Children’s Art Show scheduled for Saturday, May 19 at the Fine Arts Center. “The works that will be on display include artwork that the children have created while attending art classes here at the center,” said facility coordinator

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  • Kids get creative for art show

    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    The Tullahoma Fine Arts Center recently welcomed local artist Annie Rone as the center’s new facility coordinator. Rone has high hopes for the cen-ter’s future and hopes to share with a public the unique and artistic vibe that the center has to offer. To kick off her position as coordinator, TFAC will host a Children’s art show from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 19. All works on exhibit will include that of children who have taken classes at the art center and with Rone.

    By KALI BOLLE, Lifestyles Editor Hard work is about to pay off for art students at the Tullahoma Fine Arts Center. The center will exhibit the children’s creations in the upcoming Children’s Art Show scheduled for Saturday, May 19 at the Fine Arts Center. “The works that will be on display include artwork that the children have created while attending art classes here at the center,” said facility coordinator Annie Rone.

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Entertainment

Les Miserables

Teen Actors Guild set auditions for Les Misérables

Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:10 pm

The Teen Actors Guild of the Millennium Repertory Company announces auditions for its summer production of Les Misérables (school edition) at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 20 and 6 p.m. Sunday, May 21 at the Manchester Arts Center, 128 E. Main St. in Manchester. Callbacks will be held at 6 p.m. on Monday.  Individuals auditioning need to prepare a 16-bar musical selection and have a recent photo and can either sing

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  • Motlow art instructor’s work featured in McMinnville library

    Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    Ann Smotherman

    The artwork of Ann Smotherman, a Motlow College instructor and native of McMinnville, is featured until June at the Magness Library on Main Street in McMinnville. The show, entitled “Garden Inspirations,” includes over 40 paintings in oil and watercolor in addition to some limited edition prints. Smotherman has been an instructor at the Moore County campus for over 20 years and is currently teaching art appreciation classes at the McMinnville

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  • Kids get creative for art show

    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    The Tullahoma Fine Arts Center recently welcomed local artist Annie Rone as the center’s new facility coordinator. Rone has high hopes for the cen-ter’s future and hopes to share with a public the unique and artistic vibe that the center has to offer. To kick off her position as coordinator, TFAC will host a Children’s art show from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 19. All works on exhibit will include that of children who have taken classes at the art center and with Rone.

    By KALI BOLLE, Lifestyles Editor Hard work is about to pay off for art students at the Tullahoma Fine Arts Center. The center will exhibit the children’s creations in the upcoming Children’s Art Show scheduled for Saturday, May 19 at the Fine Arts Center. “The works that will be on display include artwork that the children have created while attending art classes here at the center,” said facility coordinator Annie Rone.

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