Friday Herald-Citizen The Daily Newspaper of the Upper Cumberland 114th Year — No. 60 Cookeville, Tennessee, March 11, 2016 20 Pages — 2 Sections • 50¢ Weather Tonight Tomorrow Lakeside Resort closing date delayed By LAURA MILITANA Collins, UCHRA executive director, said committee of the U.S. Army Corps of En- paid back in four years. HERALD-CITIZEN Staff that both UCHRA and Timothy Hill have gineers for the finalization of the sale. Lakeside Resort consists of 139 acres decided to extend the final closing date The agency will be paying USDA Rural off of Center Hill Lake in DeKalb County COOKEVILLE — The final transfer of from March 15 to March 31. Development a total of $1,285,555. and has been under UCHRA’s ownership Lakeside Resort is going to take a little “The final sales agreement will not be Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch pro- since the late ‘90s, offering classes in re- 59º 76º longer than originally anticipated, accord- signed until the 31st,” he stated. posed $600,000 for the property and once sort management and serving as a pre- ing to the executive director of the Upper As previously reported in the Herald- that’s applied toward the purchase, mier recreation area. Complete forecast, Page 2 Cumberland Human Resource Agency. Citizen, UCHRA has received the assign- UCHRA will be borrowing $685,550.25 In a memo dated March 10, Luke ment of lease from the real estate from the Bank of Putnam County to be See SALE, Page 2 Sports Woman Trail progress caught ‘huffing’ in store By TRACEY HACKETT Rally HERALD-CITIZEN Staff Levy leads Upperman rally to beat COOKEVILLE — A 51-year- Haywood /B1 old White County woman re- cently discovered it isn’t exactly a breath of fresh air to be cited for shoplifting. Living Janice L. Johnson, of Franks Ferry Road in Sparta, was issued the citation after Cookeville po- lice officers discovered that the woman had been ‘huffing’ canned air at Walmart. The incident happened around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday. “Officer [Glen] Ramsey and I responded to Walmart ... in refer- ence to a white female wearing a See HUFFING, Page 3 Shine Group collects tales of Ty Kernea | Herald-Citizen moonshiners /A7 Logan Walker, Johnny Dodson and Mark Russell with Rogers Group work on the Tennessee Central Heritage Rail Don’t forget Trail on 8th Street. This is one segment of the first phase of the trail, which consists of 4.23 miles beginning at the Cookeville Depot and ending at the Algood ball fields. Construction on the entire segment is anticipated to be complete by early fall. Nation Man sleeping in car by busy intersection charged with PI By TRACEY HACKETT Giezentanner, he responded to a report of the car out of the occupant’s reach,” Sgt. HERALD-CITIZEN Staff a man passed out in a red Dodge Neon Giezentanner continued. Change clocks, parked on the side of the road around 7:40 He said he could tell that the man in the COOKEVILLE — A man sleeping in his p.m. vehicle was breathing, and he could see check smoke alarms vehicle at the eastbound off ramp of Inter- “Upon arrival, I found a white male scattered inside the vehicle numerous NASHVILLE — State Fire state 40 at Highway 111 was arrested this curled up sideways in the front passenger small, travel-size bottles of liquor, some of Marshal Julie Mix McPeak re- week for public intoxication. seat with his feet on the dashboard,” he which were opened and others unopened. minds Tennesseans to check Police charged Joseph Walter Watson, of said. “I could smell a stong odor of alcohol their smoke alarms and carbon Wall Street in Cookeville, with the offense “The windows to the vehicle were rolled coming from the vehicle and from the area monoxide detectors this week- on Tuesday night. down, and the car keys were laying in the Who’s Irish? According to Cookeville Police Sgt. Jon driver’s seat. I placed the keys on top of See SLEEP, Page 2 See TIME, Page 3 Goldmine of Irish records posted online /A6 UCRA to Willow and Jackson Index Abby............................A7 complete fuel Calendar......................A6 Crossword .................A13 Living ..........................A7 tank repairs Obituaries ...................A5 Gerrie Neal By LINDSAY governments of Cookeville and Howard Gunter McREYNOLDS Sparta, Putnam and White coun- HERALD-CITIZEN Staff ties. Cora Broccolli UCRA Manager Jason Baker Donna Roberts WHITE COUNTY — The re- told board members Tuesday Priscilla Williams sults of a routine inspection of evening, “In the underground underground fuel storage tanks tank storage inspection, the steel Lena Booher at the Upper Cumberland Re- pipe is not corrosion protected.” Opinion.......................A4 gional Airport revealed a viola- The UCRA received a letter tion last fall, and UCRA from the Tennessee Department Sports ..........................B1 officials are now planning to of Environment and Conserva- Sudoku ......................A14 correct it. tion on Nov. 30 notifying them Weather ......................A2 On Tuesday night, the UCRA of the violation that was discov- board accepted a bid of $6,250 ered during a routine inspection from ProTech Services in of the tanks which are required Ty Kernea | Herald-Citizen Cookeville to install “galvanic every three years. Cookeville Police Officer Justin Long takes statements at the scene of a wreck around protection at pump islands” at “We ask for your help to pro- 1:30 p.m. yesterday at the intersection of Willow and Jackson. The crash involved a the regional airport in White vehicle and a motorcycle, and authorities said it did involve injuries, but no further County, which is owned by the See AIRPORT, Page 2 details were available this morning. (931)528-0474 Insurance at the lowest possible cost! • Why not make us prove it? 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Email: News [email protected] Sports SALE: [email protected] Advertising Old school photos [email protected] Lakeside Living [email protected] closing is Circulation [email protected] Business News delayed [email protected] Church News From Page 1 [email protected] School News The resort has not been self- [email protected] supporting for a number of years Classified Ads and with a $1.6 million note on [email protected] the lodge, agency officials de- cided it was too big of a financial burden. Letter Guidelines All 10 Lakeside employees — full and part-time — were laid All letters to the editor must off in late 2011, saving approxi- be signed and include the mately $165,000 for the next fis- writer’s name, address and cal year. phone number. Letters are Questionable financial transac- subject to editing and/or re- tions related to the resort and ed- jection. A strict 400-word limit will be enforced.