Council Approves Rezoning by LINDSAY MCREYNOLDS Chored by a Grocery Store
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B1 Herald-CitizenFRIDAY,Herald-Citizen JANUARY 4, 2019 | COOKEVILLE, TENNESSEE 117TH YEAR | NO. 3 50 CENTS Council approves rezoning BY LINDSAY MCREYNOLDS chored by a grocery store. cost-sharing between the HERALD-CITIZEN But they did include developer and the city for numerous amendments that improvements to 10th Street, In spite of numerous objec- they say they hope will pro- dark sky lighting and the tions raised by residents, a vide more protection for the restriction of truck delivery controversial rezoning was adjacent residential neigh- times to prevent deliveries approved by the Cookev- borhoods. between the hours of 11 p.m. ille City Council Thursday Councilman Mark Miller and 7 a.m. night. proposed amendments to Councilman Chuck Wom- Council members agreed require fencing between the ack said he wanted to talk to rezone 15 acres of prop- Bilbrey Park subdivision to the developer about the erty at 1545 E. 10th St. from and the southern bound- possibility of using porous single-family residential to ary of the development as concrete in the development planned commercial de- well as fencing around the following a suggestion by velopment for a proposed proposed retention pond, Bilbrey Park Drive resident LINDSAY MCREYNOLDS | HERALD-CITIZEN 125,000-square-foot shopping a noise barrier with trees, Cookeville residents listen as council members discuss a center that would be an- monument-style signage, SEE COUNCIL, PAGE A2 proposed rezoning on 10th Street. CPD offi cer charged with domestic assault BY BEN WHEELER HERALD-CITIZEN Cookeville Police Department has placed Offi cer Kyle Farley on administrative leave following his arrest in White County on Thurs- day. Farley is charged with aggravated assault and domestic assault after being arrested by the White County Sheriff ’s Offi ce. According to the arrest war- rant, the incident took place Dec. 21, after an argument regarding an issue that took place before they were married. Farley report- edly struck his wife on the “left side, eye area.” Farley Farley reportedly struck his BEN WHEELER | HERALD-CITIZEN wife in the back with his city-is- One of Sunrise Dairy’s 90 cows that produce milk for its products. The Cumberland County Dairy has sued stun gun. The incident ended after his a number of options available in three Cookeville locations. wife reportedly begged Farley to stop. There were two juvenile boys in the home at the time of the incident. “The Cookeville Police Department acknowl- Happy cows a family business edges the arrest of Offi cer Kyle Farley,” said Captain Bobby Anderson, CPD. “This arrest was the result of an investigation conducted by the White County Sheriff ’s Department in con- Sunrise Dairy brings milk to the masses junction with the Offi ce of the District Attorney General for the 13th Judicial District.” BY BEN WHEELER are headed the right (direction), of their production. That produc- “Per departmental policy, Offi cer Farley has HERALD-CITIZEN and it’s extremely satisfying to tion creates about 660 gallons a been placed on administrative leave pending know that customers are satis- day, but they bottle about 1,500 the outcome of this investigation.” The Mast family has been fied with our product.” gallons a week. District Attorney General Bryant Dunaway milking cows since 1985, but in The family has a farm of about The milk produced at Sunrise said the investigation was related to a prior in- 2014 they decided to expand their 400 acres, many of them wooded, Dairy is different from what you cident that occurred with Farley and his wife. Sunrise Dairy in Cumberland but the Masts only grow enough get from a major dairy company, Initial appearance will be in White County County to provide milk to local forage and hay for what they and comes primarily in glass general sessions court before Judge Sam Ben- grocery stores. need to use. bottles. The dairy has begun ningfi eld. “It was actually New Years in Mast says their work force expanding into plastic bottles, “It’s heartbreaking that something like this 2016 before we got it up and go- consists of mainly family mem- which could allow them to ex- happens with one of our offi cers,” Dunaway ing,” said Tim Mast. “We’ve been bers, including his seven chil- pand to further stores. said. “Thankfully it’s a rare occurrence.” pleased with how well our prod- dren, and 90 cows, Jersey or Farley has been an offi cer with CPD for four uct has been received. Things Holstein, but only sell about half SEE DAIRY, PAGE A2 years. Putnam Board of Education approves new school policy updates BY JIM HERRIN before Jan. 1, 1998 “shall be to notify “the appropriate guidelines for testing security policy had covered just em- HERALD-CITIZEN tested for lead in drinking authorities” within 24 hours of is subject to dismissal and the ployees, board members and water every two years.” such a test result and to notify loss of their license. the director. The Putnam County School The policy requires that the parents within fi ve business Another new state law re- Other policy updates include Board Thursday gave fi nal Director of Schools “develop days. quires the board to adopt a pol- clarifi cation that the school approval to a number of policy appropriate administrative A policy update on testing icy on transcript alterations. district will provide three updates, some of which were procedures to facilitate this notes that TNReady and End The law says no alterations are hours of instruction per week required by new state laws. testing and address any neces- of Course test results shall allowed unless such a policy is to students who qualify for Public Chapter No. 977, sary corrective action.” make up 15 percent of the in place and also requires that homebound instruction “for which went into eff ect with the “If test results show that second semester grade for any alteration be accompanied a period of time to be deter- New Year, required all school lead levels equal or exceed students, although the school by documentation explaining mined on a case by case basis.” systems to develop a district twenty parts per billion, the board has the option to not the reason for the change. The system’s policies on water testing policy — some- school shall immediately include those scores if the state The board also approved a background checks, transfers, thing Putnam County had not remove the drinking water cannot provide them in a time- policy adding liability insur- attendance, zero tolerance previously had. source from service” the ly manner. A separate policy ance protection to “students off enses, corporal punishment Under the policy approved policy reads. The Director provides that any employee participating in work-based and medications were also by the board, all schools built of Schools is also required found to have not followed learning.” Previously, the updated. herald-citizen.com INDEX 2 sections | 18 pages OBITUARIES Page A5 DEAR ABBY A7 COMICS B7 OPINION A4 Tammy Richardson, Cookeville Rhonda Frazier, Cookeville Richard Wells, Algood CALENDAR A6 CROSSWORD B6 SPORTS B1 Janice Cullom, Algood Randy Clinton, Cookeville Bertis Dickerson, Celina CLASSIFIED B3 LIVING A7 SUDOKU B6 Mary Dunn, Knoxville Leona Bumgarner, Grimsley We Can Help... Call Tasha Today! A2 HERALD-CITIZEN FROM PAGE 1 FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 2019 herald-citizen.com 0LOTTERY0 Thursday Baxter’s Whistle Cash 3 Evening 2-7-1, Lucky Stop receives Sum: 10 Midday 1-7-8, Lucky Sum: 16 Morning 2-5-8, Lucky beer permit Sum: 15 Cash 4 BY PAIGE STANAGE Evening 6-1-9-9, Lucky HERALD-CITIZEN Sum: 25 Midday 7-6-3-7, Lucky The Whistle Stop restaurant in Baxter received Sum: 23 Morning 1-7-1-8, Lucky its permit to serve beer from the Baxter beer Sum: 17 board Thursday evening. Owner Theresa Romero said the restaurant Cash4Life wants to be able to serve beer, either in a bottle or 05-09-25-33-55, Cash on tap, but not both. Ball: 2 “We want to be able to serve either beer bot- tles or beer on draft,” Romero said. “We won’t do both, but we are still investigating which one LINDSAY MCREYNOLDS | HERALD-CITIZEN would be better.” Fireside Drive resident Jerry McDermott speaks about the flooding 0READER SERVICES0 Some beer board members presented concerns on his property during Thursday night’s city council meeting, where Address: about the restaurant developing into a bar over numerous residents raised concerns about rezoning property at 1300 Neal St. time. 10th Street and Old Kentucky Road from single-family residential to Cookeville, TN 38501 “We’re trying to prevent a bunch of them from planned commercial development. ganging up down there on Saturday night just Mailing Address: drinking. Or creating a bar,” said Baxter build- ing inspector Bob Lane. P.O. Box 2729 Lane added the restaurant would only be serv- COUNCIL: Second reading will be held at 5:30 Cookeville TN 38502 ing beer, not selling it to take home. “This is consumption only. The bottles would p.m. on Jan. 17 at the city council meeting Phone: 931-526-9715 stay inside the building,” Lane said. Fax: 931-526-1209 Mayor John Martin said, “I don’t know what FROM PAGE A1 your plans are. I’m just speaking for myself. News We’re here to protect Baxter...I think if you are Caroline Harris. [email protected] going to do this, the beer should only be sold with The council’s decision followed Sports food.” concerns raised by residents about [email protected] Romero agreed with the mayor’s recommen- everything from traffi c to fl ooding Advertising dation, and added that her intentions are not to to the erosion of the single-family [email protected] turn her restaurant into a bar, but to only serve neighborhood.