The Daily Newspaper of the Upper Cumberland Herald-Citizen www.herald-citizen.com Editorial Golden Eagles set franchise CrasH Voting begins Wednesday, win streak with walk-off cast your ballot. Hockey players killed Record: Page E1 Page A12 Page A4 116th Year | No. 83 | sunday, april 8, 2018 | Cookeville, Tennessee $1.50 Jefferson Adult ed widening changes lives project in for the better TDOT plan BY JIM HERRIN [email protected] BY LAURA MILITANA [email protected] John Watkins has a story to tell. The Cookeville resident learned un- Tennessee Department of Trans- expectedly that he hadn’t actually portation’s 2019-2021 improvement earned the high school diploma he plan includes widening Jefferson Av- thought he had received 40 years ago. enue. “I was supposed to have graduated in The three year plan, which was re- 1978,” said Watkins, who went to high leased Thursday, lists widening 2.23 school in Nashville. miles of South Jefferson Avenue from He served three years in the military I-40 to Highway 111 in the construction and spent several years building log phase in 2020. homes on the assumption that he was a The project, which has been dis- high school graduate. cussed since 2003, is estimated to be in The discrepancy came up when he the $20 million range. That cost in- applied for a program at Vol State. cludes right-of-way acquisition and “They said we need a copy of your utilities, not construction. diploma, and I told them I didn’t have “We are very early in the right-of- it, but I’m sure I can get it,” he said. “I way process as we just received right- called my high school and (it turns of-way funding approval in late out) I didn’t have a diploma.” December 2017,” Jennifer Flynn, So Watkins decided to correct that, TDOT community relations officer for in part as an example to his three-year- Region 2, said. “The hiring of apprais- old son. He contacted the Putnam ers will take place this summer and County adult education program to they will be ready to begin appraisals Jim Herrin | Herald-Citizen begin work on passing what’s now in late summer or early fall. Acquisi- Jay Frankenfield works on a bowl in the clay studio at the Ap- called the HiSet exam. tions should begin in the fall of 2019.” palachian Center for Craft during the 20th Annual Celebration of Craft Saturday.The bowl Frankenfield is working on will be donated for See CHANGES, Page A2 See TDOT, Page A2 Habitat for Humanity’s Cooking on the Square event in the fall. Planning commission releases Honoring service updated parking study BY LAURA MILITANA level of concern (exceed- [email protected] ing 75 percent occupancy during the study window) An updated study of while a few other areas downtown parking usage are reaching levels of shows there is no short- concern. Those other age of available public areas are not quite at 75 parking. percent capacity. The study, conducted The corridor of Cedar by the Cookeville Plan- Avenue from W. Broad to ning Department, looked Spring is the area at a at the corridor along level of concern. There Spring Street to Broad are 120 public parking Laura Militana | Herald-Citizen Street extending approxi- spaces in that area. Dur- mately from Maple Av- ing the study periods, Baxter Fire Department volunteer Daniel Harris, left, was honored enue to Whitney Avenue. there were six instances as the 2018 Volunteer of the Year. “We used a conserva- of occupation over 75 per- tive occupancy rate of 75 The area of Cedar Av- cent. percent,” Jon Ward, as- enue sees a high demand The main lot is located sistant planner with the for public parking. behind Charter and City of Cookeville, said. Seven Senses and can be Baxter Fire Lt. Zach Wom- That occupancy rate cation that available accessed from Cedar Av- ack, left, was honored by threshold was deter- parking may not meet de- enue. Baxter Fire Chief Matt White mined from looking at mand. The peaks in this area as 2018 Firefighter of the other parking utilization The planning depart- were recorded at noon Year. Both presentations studies from other cities, ment has done studies, and 6 p.m. The highest oc- took place during Thurs- Cookeville Planning Di- but those were inventory cupancy rate was 95 per- day’s Baxter board of mayor rector James Mills ex- studies while this study cent — 114 of 120 spaces and aldermen meeting. plained. Those rates shows how the public utilized — at noon on ranged from 75 percent to parking areas are used. Wednesday, June 29, 90 percent and were used Occupation of public 2016. to determine whether a parking spaces were de- Other areas reaching parking shortage existed. termined at four different levels of concern include Mills said if a parking times during the day. the Justice Center, court- area was used more than During those times, one 75 percent, that’s an indi- area was found to be at a See PARKING, Page A2 Index Obituaries, A10 6 Sections — 46 Pages Camera exHibit Abby C2 Opinion A4 Mary Ellen Allen Glenda Sue Garrett Cookeville club’s Calendar A0 Schools B1 Inez Bremer Emma Sue Whittaker annual exhibit Classified D1 Sports E1 David Wayne Kerley Bobby Max Dennis Sr. opens Friday James Walker Evelyn Howard Comics F1 Sudoku B5 Page C1 Frances Matthews Virginia Nell Vanwinkle Community C1 Weather A2 Moline Stafford Crossword B5 A2 — HERALD-CITIZEN, Cookeville, Tenn. — www.herald-citizen.com — Sunday, April 8, 2018 LOCAL/STATE READER Power outage likely caused by storm SERVICES BY JIM HERRIN likely was damaged by kind of panicking, but [email protected] lightning during the everybody was really storm on Tuesday night. patient,” she said. A power outage Our crews found the Brown said locating Contact us: briefly affected a por- problem and isolated the source of an outage Address: tion of southwest the damaged component can sometimes be a 1300 Neal St. Cookeville Friday and restored power.” challenge. evening, but the elec- Brown said the outage “Once the outage oc- Cookeville, Tenn. tricity was restored less was first reported at 7:56 curs, we don’t have a than an hour later. p.m., affecting portions system that tells us ex- Mailing Address: “We had a piece of of South Willow Avenue, actly where it’s at, so we P.O. Box 2729 electrical equipment fail Buffalo Valley Road and have to ride the circuit at the entrance to 911 on Jackson Street, includ- to find where the prob- Cookeville TN 38502 Willow Avenue,” said ing the Jackson Plaza lem is,” she said. “Then Karen Brown of the shopping center. once we find it, we have Phone: 931-526-9715 Student research and creative work will be on Cookeville Electric De- “It was a Friday night to get a crew there to fix display in Tennessee Tech’s Hooper Eblen partement. “It most and the businesses were it.” Fax: 931-526-1209 Center 9-11 a.m. Tuesday, April 10 for the uni- versity’s annual Research and Creative Inquiry Email: Day. News [email protected] Missing child’s disappearance ruled Sports TTU Research and [email protected] homicide; father charged, arrested Advertising [email protected] Creative Inquiry Day NASHVILLE – A issued an course of the investiga- Living joint investigation by Endan- tion, and after a three- [email protected] Tuesday at Hoop the Tennessee Bureau gered day search, it was Circulation of Investigation and the Child determined that the [email protected] The creative minds Volpe Library, instruc- Dickson County Sher- Alert, and child’s father intention- Business News and critical thinking tion room 248. iff’s Office has resulted law en- ally killed his son [email protected] skills of Tennessee This year’s event in the arrest of Joseph forcement sometime during the Church News Technological Univer- will feature more than Ray Daniels, 28, the fa- Daniels agencies, night of April 3-4, in [email protected] sity students will be 200 student projects. ther of Joe Clyde search and their residence and School News on display Tuesday, The event captures Daniels, the 5-year-old rescue organizations, then hid his son’s body. [email protected] April 10 for the uni- the spirit of a 2010 res- who has been the sub- and citizen volunteers On the morning of Classified Ads versity’s 13th annual olution by the U.S. ject of an Endangered began an exhaustive April 7, TBI Agents ar- [email protected] Research and Creative House of Representa- Child Alert this week. search in the area of rested the father and Inquiry Day. tives designating Un- Joe Clyde Daniels his residence. On April charged him with one Featuring students dergraduate Research was reported missing 6, at the request of 23rd count of criminal homi- Letter Guidelines from disciplines Week and a proclama- by his parents the District Attorney Gen- cide. Daniels was across the university tion by Tennessee morning of Wednesday, eral Ray Crouch, TBI booked into the Dick- All letters to the editor must campus, the event is Governor Bill Haslam April 4. At the request Agents opened an in- son County Jail on a be signed and include the designed as a diverse, designating Graduate of the Dickson County vestigation into crimi- one million dollar writer’s name, address and interdisciplinary rep- Education Week. Sheriff’s Office, the TBI nal conduct.