SPORTS: LOCAL NEWS: Local trio soar BLADE Project into action at laptops being state meet: Page 9 deployed: Page 8 163rd YEAR • No. 20 16 pAGES • 50¢ CLEVELAND, TN 37311 THE CITY WITH SPIRIT TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2017 Council directs Bachman Academy closes school board to further review AU purchase By LARRY C. BOWERS
[email protected] The Cleveland City Council continues to look at “the possibility” of providing support to the Bradley County Commission and Bradley County Board of Education in the purchase of the old American Uniform building for an innovative edu- cational training center. The county is planning to purchase the facilities, but does not plan to obtain a loan until July 2019. Under a longtime agreement, the city would receive a share of these funds at the time a loan is secured. A letter of agreement and res- olution was compiled by city staff, proclaiming the city understands it will not receive Robinson its share of money borrowed by Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS the county until 2019. This money is expected to be used to THE MAIN facilities of Bachman Academy are on its foundation’s 200-acre campus, south of Cleveland. BA’s board announced over the weekend that help offset the cost of the college preparatory school for students in grades 6-12 has closed. Headmaster Mark Frizzell, pictured below, sits in his office in the school’s south Cleveland’s new Candy’s Creek Cleveland campus. He explained the closing is due to a slow economy and lagging enrollment. Although the school has closed, the Bachman Home Cherokee Elementary School on Foundation, founded more than 100 years ago, will continue in some capacity.