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The City of Cookeville will receive at least $25,000 in state grant money to complete due diligence studies at the Lemon-Farris Industrial Site off Highway 111. The city is one of 12 recipients of state grant monies that total more than $8 million for site development. Economic Development Coordinator Melinda Keifer said that while it’s not the full amount the ... Read More »

Putnam County Schools will donate a bus to the Cookeville Fire Department for training. Lieutenant Charles McFalls is also a bus driver for the county school system. He said that the department has a lot of training with regular vehicles, but not much with school buses. “You know we may have to cut into the side of the bus where ... Read More »

Pacesetters Inc. celebrated 50 years of service to individuals with disabilities and their families Friday. County Services Director Bill Toye said in 1971, a group of families got together and wanted to change how people with special needs are involved in the community. “They got together, got into a church with a basement to put it up and it got ... Read More »

Cookeville City Council appointed of Special Judge Joy Buck Gothard to serve as Cookeville City Judge Thursday night. Gothard will finish out the term of David Ledbetter. He announced his retirement earlier this week. The Council officially accepted the resignation Thursday. “David Ledbetter’s been my mentor in a lot of ways,” Gothard said. “We’ve had 18 years of a great ... Read More »

Moe’s Southwest Grill will be opening a new location in Cookeville next spring. The restaurant will be in the former Long John Silver’s building on South Jefferson Avenue. Read More »

The desire to manufacture in Cookeville has reached new levels. Economic Development Coordinator Melinda Keifer said her team has answered more requests from prospective manufacturers in the past 12 weeks than all of 2020 and possibly all of 2019. “The realization we are all coming to is that manufacturing is becoming more prevalent,” Keifer said. “Whether it’s they are not ... Read More »

One Cookeville investment advisor says the volatility of the stock market due to the new COVID strain should not worry long-term investors. Jason Murphy of Diamond Financial Investment Group said while the market experienced the greatest deep ever due to the pandemic, it also saw the greatest rally history later that year. “People are going to make some snap judgement ... Read More »

First weekend in 12 years high school football championships will not be played in Cookeville. The BlueCross Bowl will be played in Chattanooga instead this weekend and local businesses are missing the influx of people. Cookeville’s Hampton Inn General Manager Ricky Cherry said for his employees, the weekend meant guaranteed hours in what is usually a slow month. “Heads in ... Read More »

Captain Benton Young was announced as the successful candidate for the Cookeville Fire Department Chief position on Thursday. Young has served as the interim chief since Daryl Blair’s retirement in July. He is a Cookeville native with more than 32 years of experience in the fire service. When he was just 18, he volunteered with the Putnam County Fire Department ... Read More »

The city of Cookeville has announced Amber Greenwood will take over as the new Gas Department director. City Manager James Mills said that she will assume the position following the retirement of long-time director Jeff Mills. James Mills said that Jeff Mills recently informed him that it was his intention to serve his last day on March 31st, 2022. In ... Read More »