June 20, 2026
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Matheny: Megasite purchase ‘is going to happen this budget year’
J Coffee County Mayor Judd Matheny spoke to the Health, Welfare and Recreation Committee recently with certainty in the likelihood that the state will purchase the Coffee County I-24 megasite this year. Matheny said the purchase will shift infrastructure development…
UTSI to host Women’s History Month celebration
S The University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) will be hosting a Women’s History Month celebration featuring Chandra Alston on Wednesday, March 29. The event will be held at 10 a.m. in the UTSI auditorium at 411 B.H. Goethert Parkway…
Stewart wins major VFW scholarship award
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) has announced that Scotland Stewart, a Franklin County High School sophomore in Winchester was named first place national winner, and recipient of the $35,000 T.C. Selman Memorial Scholarship award, in its 2022-2023 Voice of…
Judge hands down stop work order on Jack Daniel’s barrelhouse
L Judge JB Cox this past week handed down his decision from the Feb. 14 hearing on the writ of mandamus for a stop work order on one barrelhouse being built by Jack Daniel’s based on a petition filed against…
James Luther Haynes Obituary
James Luther Haynes, 77, of Winchester, passed away on Monday, March 6, 2023 at Southern Tennessee Regional Health Systems. He was born in Anderson, South Carolina on Feb. 5, 1946 to the late James Alfred and Virginia Lillian (Partin) Haynes.…
Linda Faye Guinn Hopkins Obituary
Linda Faye Guinn Hopkins, 75, of Coffee County, formerly of Winchester, departed this life on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at home surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Winchester on July 22, 1947 to the late Jess and…
Otto Herman Lamsfuss Obituary
Otto Herman Lamsfuss, 81, of Belvidere, passed away on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at Southern Tennessee Regional Health Systems in Winchester. He was born on Dec. 9, 1941, in New York City, New York to the late Carl and Martha…
Betty Ruth Smith Yates Obituary
Betty Ruth Smith Yates, 88, of Winchester, passed away on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at her residence surrounded by her loving family. A native of Franklin County, she was born on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1934 in Huntland to the…
Doctor meets patient in his comfort zone
DUANE SHERRILLEditor A local eye care professional was noted recently for going above and beyond to render an exam, going to the patient when the patient did not want to go to her. “The patient was autistic and non-verbal,” explained…
The rise and fall of Tennessee’s “Lost County”
B Tennessee has 95 counties, and there used to be a 96th. Known as James County, it was a tiny sliver of a county east of Hamilton and west of Bradley. Formed after the Civil War, it was done away…