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The Daily Newspaper of the Upper Cumberland Herald-Citizen www.herald-citizen.com Chased With A Saw Tennessee Tech men beat at E ight oNight Cookeville woman charged Austin Peay in basketball D N t with unusual assault Event for fathers, daughters A win: Page B1 Page A3 Page A2 116th Year | No. 40 | Fr iDay, February 16, 2018 | Cookeville, Tennessee 50¢ TTU board supports investigation on study BY KATE COOK closed, Board of Trustees Chairman Tom Jones [email protected] said he had spoken with TTU President Phil Editor’s Note: Oldham regarding the investigation at length Members of Tennessee Tech’s governing and said he “demanded” that a thorough inves- The New York Times published a story on this topic board support a pending internal investigation tigation be performed. Thursday. The story, titled “How $225,000 can help se- into the university’s study funded by Fitzgerald Jones also said board member Barbara Flem- cure a pollution loophole at Trump’s E.P.A.” The Herald- Glider Kits. ing had spoken with Oldham and encouraged Citizen requested permission to run the story in its The executive committee of TTU’s Board of entirety, but the story has been embargoed for 30 days. Trustees met Thursday. Before the meeting See TTU, Page A3 The story is available online at nytimes.com. More than 50 qualify for commission races in May BY JIM HERRIN [email protected] More than 50 candidates have now filed papers to run for one of the 24 seats on the Putnam County commis- sion, including 25 who will be run- ning in the May primary. The deadline to turn in qualifying papers was noon Thursday for both the Republican and Democratic pri- mary candidates and for those who want to run as Independents. In the primary, the majority of can- didates will be seeking the nomina- tion of the Republican party, although two are running as Democ- rats. Two persons from each party Joan Bentley crosses a swinging bridge over a rippling stream during a waterfall tour sponsored by the can be chosen as nominees, and all of Friends of Edgar Evins State Park. the nominees will then face Inde- pendent challengers in the August election. Edgar Evins waterfall tour March 17 The candidates include the follow- ing: Reservations are now open for chance to eat in the inn because west of Cookeville. District 1: Jonathan A.D. Williams, The 17th Annual Waterfall Tour by the facility is scheduled for demoli- “From I-40, take exit 268 at State Republican; Kevin Christopher and Friends of Edgar Evins State Park, tion in April to make way for a new Hwy. 96 and Center Hill Lake,” Fred Vondra, Independent; scheduled for Saturday, March 17, building.” Bertram said. “The entrance is District 2: Sam Sandlin, Republi- from 8 a.m. to about 3:30 p.m. Bertram said transportation will across from the Big Rock Market can; J. Darryl Huddleston and Jim “The waterfall tour will include once again be on a school bus from and Caney Fork Outdoors.” Martin, Independent; short walks to at least three falls, Edgar Evins to Fall Creek Falls. The cost of the tour is $15 per District 3: David Gentry and Jordan breathtaking overlooks and lunch Edgar Evins State Park is at 1630 person, which includes lunch. M. Iwanyszyn, Republican; Jerry in the park inn’s cafeteria,” said Edgar Evins Park Road, Silver Reservations may be made on- Ford, Independent; friends group member Anna Point. The entrance is in DeKalb Bertram. “This will be a last County, approximately 20 miles See TOUR, Page A3 See QUALIFY, Page A2 Cookeville a step closer to having noise ordinance BY KATE COOK make sounds in excess of 65dB(C) [email protected] a citable offense between mid- night and 7 a.m. Those are deci- Cookeville’s city council is one bels, or measurements of sound, step closer to having a noise ordi- with sound pressure readings. nance that includes bass sounds. To make the determination, a The change to the city’s current Cookeville police officer would go noise ordinance passed unani- to the property line where the mously at council’s regular meet- source of the sound is and take a ing Thursday. reading. If the sound is higher City manager Mike Davidson than 65dB(C), the officer would New faces at CPD said the city has gotten several first request compliance, but after Thomas Smith and Blair Arrington are the new patrol officers at the complaints about bass music that, issue a citation and the Cookeville Police Department. Smith, left, and Arrington, right, are being sounds late at night. sworn in by CPD Chief Randy Evans. At far left is Whitney Allen. Sydney The ordinance change would See NOISE, Page A3 Arrington is second from right. Index Obituaries, A7 ENior al ENt iNES 2 Sections — 20 Pages S V Donald Cleghorn Baxter seniors Abby A8 Living A8 Homer Jones celebrate Calendar A6 Opinion A4 Lida Cannella special day Classified B4 Sports B1 Douglas Chaffin Page A8 Comics A13 Sudoku A12 Crossword A12 Weather A2 A2 — HERALD-CITIZEN, Cookeville, Tenn. — www.herald-citizen.com — Friday, February 16, 2018 LOCAL READER SERVICES Woman arrested after bow saw chase BY PAIGE STANAGE rant, Shellie Kirby, 36, of thought an adult male was Kirby admitted to chas- [email protected] Whitson Chapel, was attacking a child in the ing the victim down the angry at another woman street. road and arguing with her, Contact us: A Cookeville woman is for sleeping with her part- “She’s a thief!” “That’ll the warrant states. Address: suspected of chasing an- ner and chased the other teach her!” and “I ran her Officers retrieved the 1300 Neal St. other individual down the woman in the street with a plumb out of her shoes!” bow saw from Kirby. street with a bow saw bow saw. were among the things Kirby is charged with Cookeville, Tenn. Thursday. The warrant states wit- Kirby said, according to aggravated assault. Her Kirby According to the war- nesses to the incident the warrant. bond is $5,000. Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2729 Cookeville TN 38502 Phone: 931-526-9715 More Fax: 931-526-1209 QUALIFY: Email: News than 50 in county [email protected] Sports [email protected] Advertising commission races [email protected] Living From Page A1 District 11: A. Camille [email protected] Fliss-Mayberry, Democrat; Circulation District 4: Larry D. Ben- Dewayne Harness, Tony [email protected] nett and Theresa Tayes, Re- Honeycutt and Darren Wil- Business News publican; Zachary Wayne son, Republican; Marsha K. [email protected] Buckner and Jerry Rober- Bowman, Donny L. Buttram Church News son, Independent; and Kathy Dunn, Independ- [email protected] District 5: Cindy Adams, ent; School News Terry C. Randolph and District: 12: Tammy Ad- [email protected] Bobby Williams, Republi- kins Hoover and Kent Classified Ads can; Vinnie Faccinto, Jack Koger, Republican; Mike At- [email protected] Phillips and Donnie L. Vin- wood and Cathy Qualls son, Independent; Reel, Independent. District 6: Adam Johnson Of the 51 candidates Letter Guidelines and Michael D. Reep, Repub- vying for a seat, 21 are in- lican; Chris Cassetty and cumbents. Incumbents not All letters to the editor must Chris Savage, Independent; seeking re-election include be signed and include the District 7: Grover N. Ben- Scott Ebersole and Tom writer’s name, address and nett Jr., Andrew “AJ” Dona- Short in District 1 and Bob phone number. Letters are dio and Larry Redwine, Duncan in District 2. subject to editing and/or re- Republican; Becky Hull, Candidates have one week jection. A strict 400-word limit will be enforced. Send letters Mike Medley and Damon from the qualifying dead- to the mailing address listed “Dee” Prince, Independent; line to withdraw from the above, or email to TTU District 8: Danny Holmes, race. Otherwise, their [email protected]. Democrat; Jack Duncan, Re- names will appear on the Briana Eilert is the winner of the annual Derryberry Memo- publican; and Ben Rodgers, ballot. rial Concerto Competition. She will perform with the Bryan Independent; The last day to register to Order a Photo Symphony Orchestra Sunday. District 9: Jimmy Neal vote in the May primary is Every photograph taken by a Her- and Chad Redmon, Republi- April 2. ald-Citizen photographer and can; Ted McWilliams, Dale Early voting will take published in the paper is available Moss and Benton Young, In- place April 11-26. for purchase. Go to www.herald- Student saxophone dependent; The qualifying deadline citizen.com and click on “Photo District 10: Joe for the August election, Gallery.” Also, many photos in- cluded in online stories are avail- Iwanyszyn, Republican; which will have races for able for purchase. player to perform Kim Bradford and Danny school board and municipal Morphew; Independent; offices, is April 5 at noon. Subscriptions To subscribe, call 931-526- with orchestra 9715. Visa, MasterCard and Discover accepted. When Briana Eilert trans- ert performed among peers in Three countywide Rates: ferred to Tennessee Tech, she the saxophone studio for the 3 mo 6 mo 1yr knew she wanted to study opportunity to compete in the Carrier or under Philip Barham in the competition. Mail: 385 university’s School of Music “As a music performance offices to be contested Zip Code $28 $54 $95 saxophone studio. What she major, I am very accustomed Print & did not realize at that time to having master class set- cumbent Randy Jones and E-Edition $29 $56 $98 BY JIM HERRIN Anywhere Only was that her quality work at tings where you are playing [email protected] challenger Larry “Buck” E-Edition $21 $42 $84 Tech would bring her a amongst one another, but it Huddleston have both filed Mail: Outside unique opportunity for music was sort of a different setting Three of the seven coun- papers for the Republican 385 Zip $49 $85 $143 students, especially saxo- to audition amongst your tywide offices up for elec- primary.