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A single-vehicle crash claimed the life of a Cookeville woman Monday afternoon. The Tennessee Highway Patrol identified the deceased as 20-year-old Hope Long. The accident happened at 4:20 p.m. in the westbound Lanes of Pippin Road. A crash report said Long’s 2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer traveled off the right side of the roadway, rolled to a final rest, and landed upright. ... Read More »

Cookeville High School athletic fields will be getting a new irrigation system in the near future. Superintendent of Schools Jerry Boyd said maintenance crews installed a temporary fix after the current hydraulic system experienced issues. “With as dry as it’s been, they haven’t been able to get water to their fields,” Boyd said. “We had to do an above ground. ... Read More »

A single-vehicle crash claimed the life of a Smith County woman. The incident happened Monday morning on Old Lancaster Road. The Tennessee Highway Patrol identified the deceased as 74-year-old Margie Cole. A crash report said Cole was traveling South when her 2002 Honda Accord left the roadway and struck a small tree. The report said Cole was wearing a seat ... Read More »

A State Trooper suffered injuries while investigating a crash in Putnam County Monday morning. The incident happened on Interstate 40 eastbound at the 270 mile marker. Officials said Trooper Michael Robertson had stopped to investigate a single-vehicle non-injury crash involving 26-year-old Kaci Scudder of Carthage. A crash report said a Hyundai Elantra rear-ended Robertson’s patrol vehicle as he sat inside. ... Read More »

The Fentress County U.T. Extension Office will use a $150,000 state grant to build a new agriculture pavilion. John Gunter is the Director of the Fentress County U.T. Extension Office. He said the project will be one of the largest ever for the office. “There’s never been anything like this on this scale. I guess a few years back we ... Read More »

Cookeville Police have arrested a man for allegedly soliciting a teenage girl. 61-year-old Jimmy Lee Leonard faces two counts of solicitation of a minor by electronic means and a single count of soliciting a minor. A press release accuses Leonard of using various social media sites to solicit a 14-year-old girl living in Texas. Officers arrested Leonard on Friday after ... Read More »

A Cumberland County man recently lost a lot of money after sending $20,000 to a scammer. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said the man received a call from a woman posing as a DEA agent. She told the victim that agents found his social security card inside a burned car containing large amounts of drugs. A press release said the ... Read More »

A street light conversion project may be in store for the City of Baxter. Mayor John Martin said he’ll be meeting with Upper Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation (UCEMC) to discuss LED bulbs. “They’re going to make a proposal for us to do a pilot [project],” Martin said. “Maybe put LED’s on one street and let us look at them and ... Read More »

The City of Cookeville will soon have a new fee for reviewing final plans of certain developments. The fee would cover the planned residential development, planned commercial development, and redevelopment area overlay districts. John Ward is the Director of the Cookeville Planning Department. “We currently don’t have any fees for the PRD, PCD, and RAO developments for the final plan ... Read More »

Property purchased for a new school in Cookeville can easily house a 114,00 square foot K-4 facility. Building separate K-4 and grade 5-8 schools would be more expensive and not as easy. Upland Design Group’s Kim Chamberlin said that’s because the property’s topography poses some challenges. “The worry is we open up the potential for sinkholes to come. That was ... Read More »