Few Have Qualified for August Election Tonight Tomorrow by Lindsay Mcreynolds His Current Seat in the Republican Pri- House, Held by Diane Black
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Thursday Herald-Citizen The Daily Newspaper of the Upper Cumberland 114th Year — No. 53 Cookeville, Tennessee, March 3, 2016 16 Pages — 2 Sections • 50¢ Weather Few have qualified for August election Tonight Tomorrow By lInDSAY McREYnolDS his current seat in the Republican Pri- House, held by Diane Black. two to have qualified so far in the election HERALD-CITIZEN Staff mary. Williams is already expected to In three seats to be elected on the Put- of two council seats. Incumbent Carolyn face a contest in that election from Put- nam County School Board, incumbents Norris and Bo Murphy have also picked PUTNAM COUNTY — Following nam Democratic Party Chairman Amos Dawn Fry and Kim Cravens have already up qualifying papers to become candi- Super Tuesday, a few candidates for local Powers, who picked up qualifying papers picked up qualifying papers in the 1st dates in that election. 34º 46º and state elected offices are already look- on Feb. 24, but has not yet returned those District and 3rd District, respectively. In Baxter, Mayor Jeff Wilhite faces a po- ing ahead to the county general and state to the Putnam Election Commission. Eric Brown, who currently represents the tential contest from John Martin. Both Complete forecast, Page 2 primary elections on Aug. 4. Other primaries on Aug. 4 are for the 5th District, has not picked up qualifying Martin and Wilhite picked up qualifying Among them are State Representative seat in the 25th District of the Tennessee papers. papers to be candidates for mayor on Jan. Ryan Williams of the 42nd District, who House, currently held by Cameron Sex- In Algood, incumbent Jennifer Robinson qualified on Feb. 1 to be a candidate for ton, and the 6th District seat of the U.S. Green and Ruby N. Hawkins are the only See ElEctIon, Page 2 Sports Justice Center Step Work Two tabbed for IDB One and done By lAURA MIlItAnA Tech men fall to Austin HERALD-CITIZEN Staff Peay in first round of OVC COOKEVILLE — Nearly four tournament /B1 months following the resignation of two members of the Industrial Devel- opment Board, two new members are gearing up for next week’s annual Living meeting, one being a familiar name in the area. Former Cookeville city manager Jim Shipley was ap- pointed to the board by the council a few months ago, along with First Na- Shipley tional Bank of Tennessee’s Cookies Cheryl Sandlin. “It’s exciting to Drucilla offers up a cou- see the business ple of cookie recipes /A8 Ty Kernea | Herald-Citizen park come along,” Shipley, who Rock Solid concrete employees work to replace the steps in front of the Putnam county Sheriff’s De- served as city ad- partment on tuesday. the project should be complete by end of next week, weather permitting. ministrator for 20 years, said. “We really took a lot of Nation chances on get- Sandlin ting that estab- lished, but it’s exciting to see activity Train to stop in Baxter this fall out there.” Sandlin, who has been in the bank- By MEGAn tRottER Photo tees president passengers a view of fall foliage as well ing industry for nearly 16 years, is HERALD-CITIZEN Staff Jeanie Lee said. as the stop at the Harvest Festival on honored to be asked to join. “We had to prove Saturday, Oct. 29. “It’s an honor to serve with such dis- BAXTER — Even though the Harvest Page A2 that we were capa- “We’re excited about this — possible tinguished people,” she said. “It’s an Festival is not until October, the Friends ble and that we had 500 passengers visiting Baxter and exciting time not only here in of the Baxter Depot and Baxter Beauti- something to offer.” spending money,” Lee said. “If it goes Cookeville, but across the state.” fication Committee are already hard at Members of both committees, as well really well, this could be a yearly event. She credits the recent success of work in preparation — especially since as the mayor and aldermen have been We have worked so hard to see our landing big industries Academy this year a passenger train will be stop- in meetings with Tennessee Central depot built, events take place, to grow Sports + Outdoors and Spanish auto- Hackers wanted ping in the city during the event. Train Excursion president Terry Be- our festival, to help clean up our com- motive supplier FICOSA to the hard Pentagon looking for “This is something we’ve worked on bout, who they said expressed excite- munity and much more. This is our day computer hackers to test for at least three or four years,” commit- ment about the trip that will give in the sun!” See IDB, Page 2 security /A6 Index Man cited for root Hwy. 111 — I-40 Crash Abby ..............................A8 Calendar ........................A6 Crossword......................A9 beer shoplifting Living.............................A8 Obituaries......................A5 By tRAcEY HAcKEtt deClaire, the product the man had Diane Gowen HERALD-CITIZEN Staff attempted to steal was an alcoholic Willene Clemons beverage called Damn Good Root June Gentry COOKEVILLE — A Jamestown Beer. Calvin Chastain man today may be questioning just “Store personnel detained Timo- Robert Eist how good the product was that he thy Matthews for passing all Earl Upchurch reportedly stole from a Cookeville points of sale and exiting the store grocery store on Tuesday morn- with ‘Damn Good Root Beer,’ Richmond Brown ing. which is an alcoholic beverage,” Maggie Steele Timothy Dustin Matthews, of Officer deClaire said. Opinion .........................A4 Lincoln Road in Jamestown, was The value of the beverage is Sports.............................B1 cited for shoplifting in an incident $8.49. Sudoku...........................A9 that happened at a South Jefferson Officer deClaire said he issued a Weather.........................A2 Avenue grocery store. citation to Matthews instead of The incident reportedly hap- taking him into custody. pened shortly after 8:15 a.m. on Matthews has been scheduled for Ty Kernea | Herald-Citizen Tuesday. an initial appearance in Putnam the cookeville Fire Department responded to an incident at Interstate 40 and And according to a report by County General Sessions Court Highway 111 yesterday around 3 p.m. two people were transported non-emer- Cookeville Police Officer Marc for April 4. gency to cookeville Regional Medical center. A-2 — HERALD-CITIZEN, Cookeville, Tenn. — www.herald-citizen.com — Thursday, March 3, 2016 LOCAL READER Man tries to turn self in, charged with PI IDB: SERVICES By TRACEY HACKETT “Officer Haworth told me he observed the When Officer Haworth attempted to place HERALD-CITIZEN Staff male finishing a bottle of gin,” Officer Minter handcuffs on the man, he said, “he fell to the Two fill reports. ground and attempted to dead weight me.” Contact us: COOKEVILLE — Have you ever been so “When asked about the drink, he told us he The two officers did manage to get Boggs Address: drunk you thought you were wanted by the finished the drink because he was on his way in handcuffs and placed in the rear of a patrol spots on authorities? to turn himself in to the jail. A records check car, where he was transported to the Putnam 1300 Neal St. That apparently happened to a Cookeville was conducted, and he showed to have no County Jail. Cookeville, Tenn. man here Tuesday night, according to a re- warrants,” the officer continued. There, he was again uncooperative, the of- board port by Cookeville Police Officer Jamar They attempted to call a cab for the man, ficers report. Mailing Address: Minter. but after he became belligerent and uncoop- “He fell on the floor of the Sally port. Cor- Officers Minter and Brian Haworth report- erative with the officers, they instead obliged rectional officers came out and assisted me From Page A1 P.O. Box 2729 edly encountered the man, later identified as his desire to be taken to jail. with carrying him into intake,” Officer Cookeville TN 38502 Tommy Dale Boggs, around 9:15 p.m. near As the officers were placing the man in cus- Minter reports. work of leadership, from the intersection of South Lowe Avenue and tody, he reportedly became more and more Boggs was charged with public intoxica- both the city and county lev- East Jackson Street. uncooperative. tion. els. Phone: 931-526-9715 “The key is that they have Fax: 931-526-1209 been promoting that planned growth,” she said. “Our Email: The Train’s Coming leaders are listening.” News She also noted how the dif- [email protected] ferent economic engines of Sports area, such as Tennessee Tech [email protected] and Cookeville Regional Advertising Medical Center, are working [email protected] with officials to get things Living rolling. [email protected] “There have been several Circulation opportunities that the bank [email protected] has been involved in, both Business News inside and outside of [email protected] Cookeville, that have been Church News great learning experiences,” [email protected] she said. “It’s exciting to see School News what is to come.” [email protected] When the IDB meets next Classified Ads week, members will review [email protected] proposed changes to the City of Cookeville resolution del- egating certain PILOT (Pay- Letter Guidelines ment In Lieu of Taxes) powers to the IDB, and con- All letters to the editor must sider acceptance of the pow- be signed and include the ers granted therein; to writer’s name, address and consider and authorize an phone number. Letters are application to the city coun- subject to editing and/or re- cil for permission to amend jection. A strict 400-word limit will be enforced.