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Should the Old Timers Day be?
	Cancelled
	Moved back to square
	Stay the same
	Scaled back
	Made bigger
	Different type of celebration
	A tourism event with more advertising spent to draw-in a broader audiance to showcase our city

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The Saturday Independent is a newspaper in Coffee County, Tennessee that is independently owned and operated by Beth and Chip Ramsey. We currently circulate to 4,000 homes and businesses [more]

Welcome home 1175th

Cars pass by the 1175th Transportation company Headquarters in Tullahoma as signs point to the return of the squad Sunday from their second tour of Iraq. TSI Photo/Chip Ramsey

From TSI Staff Reports

After a year on the job in Iraq, the Tullahoma-based 1175th Transportation Company of the Tennessee National Guard is scheduled to be home early Sunday afternoon. [more]

Gas prices killing confidence

By Byron Hensley
Staff Writer

Within the past week, gas prices have jumped 14 cents at the pump. And, they�re about to get even higher, with prices for crude oil reaching $126 a barrel for the first time ever on Friday.
If you�re buying your gas in Manchester, count yourself lucky; local prices of around $3.55 a gallon are still less than the national average of $3.67.
Unless you�re the CEO of an oil company, high gas prices probably aren�t helping your bottom line. In fact, the high gas prices will probably have the result of lowering economic growth by one percent, said David Penn, director of the Business & Economic Research Center at MTSU. [more]

County schools to move on bus garage in July
By Byron Hensley
Staff Writer

Sometime around July 15, Coffee County school buses should be able to move into their new home, in the former Chevy dealership on the McMinnville Highway, and the alternative school should be able to move in soon after the school year begins, Coffee County Schools Director Kenny Casteel said.
"The board selected, at a work session on Monday, to go with C&H Construction, the low bidder, as the contractor," Casteel said. "Work has begun on all sections of the building. Our concentration now is on the transportation area, so we can get moved in before school starts."
Coffee County purchased the former auto sales site last year as a location for a school bus garage, alternative school and maintenance facility last year for $1.4 million. [more]

Shooting in Tullahoma just training for officers
Federal, state and local police in Tullahoma are conducting training today.
Some residents with scanners may have heard the police radio calls about a shooting, but it is only training.

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Vehicle hits child on Oakdale St. in Manchester
By Chip Ramsey
Publisher

A 12-year-old girl was struck by a vehicle on trecherous Oakdale Street in Manchester Thursday evening. The incident comes less than one week after TSI ran story about the lack of sidewalks along the busy road that is a passage for many children heading to and from nearby Westwood Elementary School. [more]

Are you a hero? Red Cross Heroes Campaign
By Chip Ramsey
Publisher

It�s as cliche` as any commercial, but the Red Cross is looking for a few good men and women to help out the people who have helped out America since 1888. A local �Heros Campaign� has begun for the Treis County Chapter of the American Red Cross. The worthwhile effort will raise funds for the local organization. [more]

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