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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…