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RBS City Council meeting minutes
The Red Boiling Springs City Council met in regular session on Thursday, May 9. The following business was conducted: • Minutes of April 11 and April 25 meetings were approved. • Willie Brown was re-appointed Vice-Mayor; it is customary to re-appoint this way after an election is held. Also, the council voted to authorize the mayor, city clerk, and deputy clerk be allowed to sign checks at Macon Bank & Trust and Citizens Bank. This is als...
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May Lafayette City Meeting minutes
The Lafayette City Council held its monthly meeting on May 7. A Beer Board Meeting was held beforehand, and beer permits were issued to business owners Luis D Caratachea, Jose Perez, Fernando Caratachea and Ricardo Vazquez for El Mereadit Market at 1214 Scottsville Road. A public hearing was held to solicit public comments on the zoning of a tract of property on Hwy 52 Bypass West. Then the following business was attended to: Old Busines...
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Tilly Dillehay | Times City Carrier Tim Canter with the first batch of donated food items.
Watch your mailbox: Postal food drive Saturday
The US Postal Service is holding their Stamp Out Hunger food drive on Saturday, May 11. This is a national event, but our Macon County post offices will be participating, and all food donated will be organized and distributed by Macon Helps. Everyone in the county will receive announcements and an empty sack during the week of May 11. On that Saturday, they are asked to fill the sack with nonperishable food items and hang it on their mailbo...
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Tilly Dillehay | The Times
Man killed instantly in van crash
A man was killed instantly after his van crossed the center line and crashed into another vehicle on Hwy 52 Tuesday afternoon. William Ray Archer Jr., a 57-year-old resident of Red Boiling Springs, was driving a Ford Winstar van east towards Lafayette when the accident occurred. He crossed the center line some two miles east of the Macon/Sumner line, near Westside Elementary School. Brent Hall, age 29, was driving a Chevy Avalanche west o...
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Lafayette man thrown, killed in truck accident
A Lafayette man was thrown from his vehicle and killed in a one vehicle accident on Union Camp Road Monday. Joey Russell, age 45, was driving west in a 2001 white Dodge pickup. He traveled off the right side of the road and struck a driveway at about 1461 Union Camp Road. THP Trooper Terry Seay, who took the accident report, said that the vehicle flipped at least twice, “maybe more.” Russell was evicted from the vehicle, landing in a dr...
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Board of Directors, L-R: Tom P. Thompson, Jr. (District H - Hartsville); Jeff Downing (District F - Fountain Run); Veachel Harlan (District T – Tompkinsville); Ronald Bailey (District C – Celina); Ray Goad (District L – Lafayette); Paul Thompson (Executive V.P. and General Manager); Bret Carver (District B – Burkesville); George Cowan (District E – Edmonton); Tony Bentle (District W – Westmoreland); Ken Witcher (Board Attorney); Mike Miller (District S – Scottsville); Jack Osgatharp (District R – Red Boiling Springs)
Tri-County meeting draws over 700
Over 700 people participated in Tri-County Electric’s Annual Members Meeting on Thursday, May 2, 2013 at Cumberland County Middle School in Burkesville, Kentucky. Bret Carver, Director of District B, welcomed everyone to the meeting. Paul Thompson, Executive Vice-President and General Manager of Tri-County Electric, introduced business and political leaders as well as other Tri-County Electric partners, including TVA. During the business me...
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Benjamin Allen Bolte
Traffic stop, home visit leads to drug arrests
The Lafayette and Red Boiling Springs Police Departments each made drug arrests this week, one following a routine traffic stop and the other during a home visit from the Department of Children’s Services. The first arrest, on Wednesday of last week, occurred on Chestnut Street. Arresting officer Sgt. J.J. Ruiz with LPD said that he stopped the vehicle on patrol for having a brake light out. Driver Zachary Knight’s license showed up in th...
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Casey Looper
Arrest made after stolen trailer turns up online
A man was arrested in Macon County this week for a trailer theft that occurred back in February. Casey Wayne Looper, 29, of 8559 Old Hwy 52 Westmoreland, was charged by Lafayette Police with one count of theft over $1,000 and by the Macon Sheriff Department with three counts of unlawful possession of stolen property and one count of theft over $1,000. The first charges relate to the 18-ft trailer that was stolen from Lafayette resident Do...
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Gabe's truck was used to convey him to the burial site.
Gabe Johns honored with truck memorial
A memorial celebration was held on Lafayette square Friday night in honor of Gabriel James “Gabe” Johns, the son of Tim and Tina Johns, who passed away suddenly early Monday morning. Gabe was 19 years old. A large group of friends and family came together on the square in the lockdown event, which was organized by Ryan Thompson, a school friend of Johns’. Johns, who enjoyed driving trucks with friends, and had recently purchased tires for h...
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Tiffany at age 13, when she disappeared in 2007.
Missing girl reunited with family after six years
The Macon County Sheriff Department didn’t know that when they began a routine investigation of a stolen motorcycle last month, they would end up helping to solve a cold missing person case in Sparta, TN. Tiffany Oliver, age 19, has been missing for six years. My Sparta News reports that 13-year-old Tiffany disappeared from her bedroom in 2007. Her mother Trish Oliver went into the room to wake her up for school and found her window open, t...
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This new Ford F-150 pickup truck will be given away at 2013 Tri-County Electric meeting.
Ford F-150 giveaway at annual Tri-County meeting
Somebody is going home with a truck again. For the second year in a row, the Grand Prize Giveaway at the Tri-County Electric annual meeting is a Ford F-150. But in case your luck doesn’t stretch quite so far, there are dozens of other prizes that will be given away at the meeting, and every member who shows up will at least get a registration gift and free dinner. The meeting is Thursday, May 2 at Cumberland County Middle School in Burkes...
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9th annual “Jackhammer” on its way
The weekend of May 10-11, the Lafayette Fire Department is hosting its 9th annual Terry Jackhammer Driver Truck & Tractor Pull. This event is to benefit the Terry Jackhammer Driver Scholarship Fund, and features KTPA Sanctioned and Non-Sanctioned Classes. These include 5800 Pro-Stock 2 WD, 62 Pro-Stock 4 WD, 6000 Lt. Super Tractors, 8000 2.6 Diesel, Lite Super Stock Tractors, and 9500 Super Farm. NAPA Gold Challenge Series features double p...
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TVA reschedules April 27th outage
Weather conditions forced TVA to postpone their outage at the Hartsville Substation that was originally scheduled for Saturday night April 27th. TVA has rescheduled the first outage for Saturday night, May 4th beginning at 11:59 p.m. This outage is to remove the damaged switch on their transmission line. Power is expected to be restored to all areas by 4:00 a.m. Sunday morning. At this time TVA has not rescheduled a second outage to repai...
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“Banking For a Cure” postponed to May 4
The 1 st Annual “Banking For a Cure” Antique Car & Bike Show and Family Fun Day will now be held Saturday, May 4 , at Macon Bank & Trust’s main branch, 2-5 pm. This postponement is due to the weather forecast; other event details should remain the same. The event is a Relay For Life fundraiser, and all proceeds will go to the work of the American Cancer Society. Registration for the car show is from 12:30 pm until 2:oo pm. Everyone wh...
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With shovels, L-R: Nancy Doss, Frankie Anderson (for Rep. Kelly Keisling), Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver, Sen. Mae Beavers, Judge John Wooten, Mayor Shelvy Linville, State Librarian and Archivist Charles A. Sherrill. Also present were several members of the Building Committee, project architect Roger A. Matchett, and project contractor Larry Clark.
Ground broken for library expansion
Community leaders gathered at the library in Lafayette on Monday to break ground on the expansion project that has been years in the making. The project includes expanded square footage, new roof, and added parking lot space. It was funded by several sizable donations, including those from Macon County and the TN Secretary of State Library and Archives Department.
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School bus catches fire, children evacuated
A school bus caught fire on Tuesday morning while arriving, full of children, at Central Elementary school. The incident occurred at about 7:35 AM. Supervisor of Transportation Larry Holland said that the fire originated in the hydraulic hoses underneath the front of the bus. “When I pulled up to the bus stop, a lady there had a funny look on her face, and she said I had a spark under the bus,” said driver Jean Brooks. “At that time I was...
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Macon County man charged with statutory rape
A Lafayette man was arrested on statutory rape charges this week. Thomas Calvin Phillips III, age 23, is accused of having relations with a minor on or about the date of April 2 and April 14, 2013. “It is an under-age statutory rape situation,” said Lt. Jason Roberts of the Lafayette Police Department, who took the report. “The mother and juvenile daughter came into the Lafayette Police Department to report their side. Then later on that ev...
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Local woman killed in 4-wheeler accident
A Lafayette woman passed away Tuesday after being thrown from a four-wheeler on Sunday night. Christy Hiland, age 22, was out for a pleasure drive with three other friends on Tanyard Road when the accident occurred at about 8 PM. Hiland’s ATV clipped the wheel of another ATV, which was driven by John Coulter, also of Lafayette. They were both traveling south on Tanyard, just at the intersection of Tanyard and Woodard Road. Hiland’s vehicl...
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Take back your drugs this Saturday at Walgreens
Walgreens stores are partnering with the Drug Enforcement Administration to host a drug Take-Back Day. This Saturday at the Lafayette Walgreens, Macon County residents have an opportunity to empty their medicine cabinets of unwanted drugs. On April 27 between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm, Walgreens will be a safe place to dispose of both prescription and over the counter drugs. All medications will be accepted, no questions asked. There will be a L...
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Jorge E. Sanchez, 22, was charged with three counts of sexual battery in Lafayette
Man charged with sexual battery of three minors
A man was charged with three counts of sexual battery Wednesday, for incidents which are alleged to have taken place in Lafayette. Jorge E. Sanchez, 22, is accused of multiple incidents of sexual battery involving three girls, aged 13, 13, and 14. The incidents allegedly took place between February 1 and April 12 of this year, all at the same Lafayette address. Sanchez’s address is listed as 4944 Hwy 87, Fountain Run, KY. The Affidavit ...
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Memory Lane
Down Memory Lane
April 17, 1975 37 Years Ago *The Macon County Court voted overwhelmingly in favor of renovating the old jail, at an estimated cost of $75,000. This was in favor of a proposed plan to build an enti...
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Down Memory Lane
March 25, 1993 19 Years Ago *Citizens Bank of Lafayette signed an agreement with Third National Bank of Nashville to purchase the assets and liabilities of the Third National Bank branch located in...
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Down Memory Lane
April 8, 1954 58 years ago *The North Central Telephone Cooperative, a new organization, switched over their Green Grove and Hillsdale telephone exchanges to dial service. With the completion of t...
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Down Memory Lane
June 11, 1968 44 Years Ago *In the wake of Martin Luther King’s assassination, columnist Charlie Gregory complains about the “overboard” mourning the country was engaged in. “You don’t see the flag...
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Down Memory Lane
A look back at things past
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People
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Lafayette Elementary’s annual Field Day
Photos by Tilly Cryar
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Brown-Miller to exchange vows
Wayland Brown and Venus Mancera of Lebanon and Wayne and Teresa Miller of Lafayette are proud to announce the upcoming marriage of their children, Tanya and Alan. Tanya is the granddaughter of Robe...
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Birth: Daisy Daneal White
Phillip and Hollie White are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Daisy Daneal White. Daisy was born Feb. 13 at 8:49 p.m. at Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin. She weighed 7 pound...
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Rose at day 90 of his weight loss program.
Rose says education, mindset behind 250-pound weight loss
Eric Rose says he has been struggling with his weight his entire life. "I'd been trying to lose the weight since I was about 12, and I'd done it all really. I was almost 250-300 pounds in junior h...
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