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E The Imagination Library of Coffee County (ILCC) has received a grant from the Nashville Predators Foundation. Awarded $4,550, ILCC is among 172 nonprofits to receive funds from the Helper Grant. The Grant Check Presentation Ceremony was held at the…

S A free medical care clinic for the working uninsured has come to Manchester.  One Day of Hope and the Tullahoma-based Partners for Healing recently hosted an open house and ribbon cutting for the newly established clinic that is operated…

J The wait is over for those curious what will be built at the former Arrowheads to Aerospace Museum property on Campground Road. A site plan for Wawa Convenience Store was recently presented to the Manchester Planning Commission at the May…

B With other system employees getting pay increases in the upcoming budget, the Franklin County School Board has agreed to extend the action to contracted bus drivers. The board approved on May 8 to give bus contractors a 10 percent…

DUANE SHERRILLEditor Despite vastly improved tests scores in Tullahoma, less than half of the city’s third graders were found proficient in language arts and now face the specter of being held back a year in school under the state’s recently…

R Lily Storey won the Tennessee State 800 meter dash for all AA schools for the second straight year with a time of 2 minutes 20.30 seconds. “A lot of training, a lot of conditioning. I played soccer too at…

Z Tullahoma High School hit a strike recently as Derek Swiger has been named the new bowling coach for the upcoming season. Swiger takes over for Lamont Snipes, who retired at the end of this past season. Snipes coached both…

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) encourages businesses of all sizes, private nonprofit organizations, homeowners and renters in Tennessee to apply for a physical disaster loan by the June 6 deadline for losses due to severe storms, straight-line winds and…

B She stands proudly in the field Dignified, tall and green Waiting for the harvest For the fruit of her labors to be seen. This stalk of corn began as a tiny seed Slowly absorbing the rain and the sun…

Go high when they go low. Think quick and don’t think slow. Rise above the panic and fear. Speak with convictions you hold dear. Be wise as a serpent and as gentle as a dove, But whatever you speak, speak…