Tullahoma residents will be able to make their voices heard as the early voting period for the Aug. 6 election is set to begin this Friday, July 17, and will conclude on Friday, Aug. 1.

The early voting locations for Coffee County residents are the C.D. Stamps Community Center at 810 South Jackson St. in Tullahoma and the Coffee County Administrative Plaza at 1329 McArthur St., Suite 6, in Manchester. The hours for early voting for C.D. Stamps Community Center will be from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday. The hours for early voting for Coffee County Administrative Plaza will be from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday.

For the city of Tullahoma, three seats are up for grabs for the board of mayor and aldermen as residents will choose from incumbent Bobbie Wilson, former alderman Daniel Berry, Donna Bradford, Brandon Champion, Mike Dent and Jackie Harding. Current aldermen Kurt Glick and Jerry Mathis chose not to run for their seats. As for the Tullahoma City Schools Board of Education, the four seats will go to the Republican primary winners, which include incumbents Teresa Lawson, Gigi Robison and Andy Whitt, as well as Sherrie Cleveland. School board member Rosie Graham will not be seeking reelection. The final election for Tullahoma residents is the selection of the city judge, with incumbent James Conley being the only candidate on the ballot.

As for the city of Manchester, nine candidates are vying for one of the three seats available on the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen. The candidates whose names are on the ballot are incumbent Thomas Crosslin, Dana Douglas, Harold (Rocky) Jones, Ben Laine, Holly McLaren, incumbent Donny N. Parsley, Jeff Perry, Kevin Smith and Paul Thornton. Alderman Mark Messick chose not to run for reelection. Meanwhile, for the Manchester City School Board, three seats are up for grabs with four candidates to choose from. Those candidates are incumbent Travis Hillis (R), Zak Mohyuddin (D), incumbent Lisa Lovelady Gregory (I) and incumbent Prater Powell (I).

For the county level, the following county seats will be decided in the August election.

For the office of Coffee County Mayor, incumbent and Republican candidate Dennis Hunt will meet Democratic candidate Khamai M. Rozier and independent Mark Messick on the August ballot. For the Coffee County Sheriff’s race, incumbent Sheriff Chad Partin won the Republican primary and will run unopposed. For the office of Circuit Court Clerk, Kelsie M. Adams won the Republican primary and runs unopposed. For the seat of County Trustee, incumbent John Marchesoni (R) also runs unopposed. Similarly, Sitting Road Superintendent Benton Bartlett (R) runs unopposed for his seat.

For the Coffee County Commission, the races for the two seats in each of the nine districts are as follows. For District 1, sitting commissioner Dowe Langford Jones (R) and Amanda LeVieux (D) are the two candidates for the seats. Sitting commissioner Jimmy Hollandsworth will not be seeking reelection. For District 2, incumbent commissioners Roger Chambers (R) and Jeff Perry (R) will meet Larry Bowen (D) on the ballot for the two seats. For District 3, incumbent commissioners Laura Nettles (R) and Rose Ann Carden Smith (R) are the only candidates on the ballot.

For District 4, incumbent Tim Brown (R) will meet Mark Brothers (R), Marlene Genesio (D), Dan Johnson (I) and Sam Myers (I) on the August ballot. Sitting commissioner Joseph Hodge was also a candidate but passed away in June. For District 5, incumbents Tim Morris (R) and Missy Deford (R) will meet Jenny Davis (I) in the August election. For District 6, sitting commissioners Sammy Anderson III (R) and Terry Hershman (R) will be the only candidates on the August ballot.

For District 7, Rosemary Crabtree (D) and sitting commissioner Jackie Duncan (D) will be the only candidates on the ballot. Sitting commissioner Tina Reed chose not to seek reelection. In District 8, Derick Mann (R) and incumbent Tim Stubblefield (R) will be on the ballot. Sitting commissioner Dwight Miller chose not to seek reelection. In District 9, incumbents Frank Watkins (R) and Todd Malone (R) will meet in the Republican primary.

For the other county races, in the race for Coffee County Clerk, Donna Low Spaulding (R) will meet Chasity Dawn Harris (I) on the August ballot. As for the Register of Deeds office, incumbent Donna Toney (R) will meet Debbie Williams in the August election.

In the Coffee County School Board races, two seats for Seat 1-Districts 1, 3 and 4 will be up while one seat will be up for both Seat 2-Districts 2, 6 and 7 and Seat 3-Districts 5, 8 and 9. All are four-year terms.

For the race for Coffee County School Board for Seat 1-Districts 1, 3 and 4, Gary Nester (R) and Brent Parsley (R) will meet sitting school board member Freda Jones (I) on the ballot. For Coffee County School Board Seat 2-Districts 2, 6 and 7, Charles Lawson (R) is the only candidate on the ballot. For the Coffee County School Board for Seat 3-Districts 5,8 and 9, Dana Duke Morris (R) is also the only candidate on the ballot.

As for the Road Commissioner races, Jeff Bush (I) will be the only candidate on the August ballot for Road Commissioner, Seat 1-District 3. For Road Commissioner, Seat 2-District 4, Arlis Markum (R) runs unopposed for the seat. For Road Commissioner, Seat 3-District 5, Carolyn Beaty Duke (R) will meet Eugene O’Kelley (D) and James Randy Kennedy (I) on the ballot at the August election. James “Jamie” Weaver (R) runs unopposed for the seat of Road Commissioner, Seat 4-District 6.

For the Constable races, Milton Stanley (I) runs unopposed on the August ballot for Constable, Seat 1-Districts 1, 3, 4. For Constable, Seat 2-Districts 2, 6, 7, Jason E. Dendy (R) also runs unopposed in the Republican primary. For Constable, Seat 3-Districts 5, 8, 9, Kevin Bowles (R) and Michael Smith (R) will face off in the August election.

The ballot will also have the August State Primaries for Governor, U. S. House of Representatives (4th Congressional District), U.S. Senate, Tennessee House of Representatives (47th House District), and the State Executive Committeemen and Committeewomen.

For the primary races for Governor, the Republican primary will see U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Monty Frits and U.S. House Rep. John Rose face off. The winner will meet the winner of the Democratic primary, which will be either Carnita Atwater, Tim Cyr, Jerri Green, Adam “Ditch” Kurtz and Kevin Lee McCantis, on the November ballot. For the race for U.S. Senate, incumbent Bill Hagerty will be the only candidate on the Republican Primary and will face off with the winner of the Democratic primary in November. The candidates in the Democratic primary are Marquita Bradshaw, Maria Brewer, Kevin Lee McCants, Civil Miller-Watkins and Diana Onyejiaka.

For the U.S. House of Representatives District 4, the Republican primary will see incumbent Scott DesJarlais face off against Thomas E. Davis, Joshua James and Harold “Rocky” Jones. The Democratic primary will see Victoria Broderick, Mike Cortese, Cliff Huffman, Tim Lanier and Joyce E. Neal. The winners of each primary will meet on the November ballot.

For the state levels, in the Tennessee House of Representatives District 47, incumbent Rush Bricken is the only candidate on the Republican primary, and will meet Mike Stein, who is running unopposed in the Democratic primary, in November. For the seat of State Executive Committeeman District 16, the Republican primary will see David Alexander, Jerry Anderson and Greg Sandlin, while the Democratic primary sees Andrew Head running unopposed. Head will meet the winner of the Republican primary in November. As for the race for State Executive Committeewoman District 16, Victoria Broderick runs unopposed in the Democratic primary and will meet the winner of the Republican primary, which will see candidates Cile T. Alexander and Iva Michelle Smith face off, in November.

The final item on the Aug. 6 ballot will be several judicial retention questions.

For more information, contact the Coffee County Election Commission at 931723-5103, email the Election Commission at votecoffee@coffeecountytn.org or stop by the Election Commission at 1329 McArthur St., Suite 6, in Manchester. Residents can also visit the Election Commission’s website at www.coffeecountytn. gov/158/Election-Commission.