Cleveland Utilities Says It'll Delay Internet Action
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T U E S D A Y 161st YEAR • NO. 237 FEBRUARY 2, 2016 ClEVElANd, tN 16 PAGES • 50¢ Cleveland Utilities says Board vote expanding it’ll delay Internet action CU Project Round-Up By LARRY C. BOWERS At the conclusion of Vineyard’s presen- its giving to several other nonprofits, a tation, the staff commented, “Delaying By LARRY C. BOWERS Banner Staff Writer Banner Staff Writer move the utility feels reflects the needs of the decision to enter the telecommunica- Bradley County residents. A PowerPoint presentation by Walt tions business does not have an apparent Cleveland Board of Public Utilities mem- Webb and United Way CEO Matt Vineyard of Cleveland Utilities’ IT downside, that we or our consultants can bers approved a motion Monday evening Ryerson have collaborated to expand the Department Monday detoured the need determine.” for Cleveland Utilities President and CEO charity list. for action by the Cleveland Board of Utility administrators also said, Ken Webb to sign a contract with United The majority of the funds (80 percent) Public Utilities on the ongoing issue of “Without knowing the outcome of the cur- Way of Bradley County expanding the util- will still go to The Caring Place and its fiber optics and broadband. rent broadband legislation, we would not ity’s charitable giving program called Neighbors in Need division, but the other An updated feasibility study by Uptown want to make any final recommendations Project Round-Up. 20 percent will be dispersed to Bradley Services led CU staff to determine it until we are able to evaluate all options In the past, all funds of the project went Cleveland Community Service Agency, should take a wait-and-see stance, until that may or may not be available to us in to The Caring Place. This year, Cleveland Family Promise, The Refuge, The Salvation the Tennessee General Assembly decides Utilities is broadening the program’s scope. what it is going to do. See INTERNET, Page 13 ken Webb Webb said Project Round-Up will expand See PROJECT ROUND-UP, Page 13 Inside Today County Ringstaff prepares reports for start two fake of budget Twitter reviews accounts Funding request But, director not deadline named to pursue charges By BRIAN GRAVES By ALLEN MINCEY Mustangs butt Banner Staff Writer Banner Staff Writer Rams at home Bradley County Commission’s Director of Cleveland City Finance Committee members are Schools Dr. Martin Ringstaff has The Walker Valley Lady preparing for the annual gauntlet Banner photo, CHRIStY ARMStRONG become the reported victim of Mustangs cruised to an easy win that is county government budget dUStING FOR FINGERPRINtS, students and families take part in the recent STEM Night event two false Twitter accounts bear- over the Lady Rams of Tyner while preparation. ing his name, and he reported the Mustangs earned a solid win in at Park View Elementary School. They took part in various activities to solve the mystery of a miss- Commissioners approved a cal- ing lizard. those to local law enforcement. the boys game. The Tennessee endar during their committee He has now answered claims Volunteers are below .500 for the meeting Monday which will that were reportedly in at least season and continue to struggle require all department heads to one of the two accounts. with second-half meltdowns. have their Ringstaff contacted the Denver Broncos GM John Elway requests turned Students on the case Cleveland Police Department said he is not pushing Peyton into the county Monday with Manning for a decision on his mayor’s office by complaints on future. See Sports, Pages 9-11. March 25. Park View Elementary dedicates the two Twitter The committee accounts. CPD will review the Officer Bobby Women’s finances requests during ‘STEM Night’ event to CSI theme Ruth’s report its regular meet- said that “... on critically important Scamper the bearded dragon lives in an ing at 1 p.m. on By CHRISTY ARMSTRONG Jan. 31, 2016, aquarium in one of the school’s main hall- In today’s world, it’s more impor- Alford April 18. Banner Staff Writer there were two ways. About a week prior to the STEM event, tant now than ever before that A public hear- different Twitter There was a mystery afoot. students discovered he was no longer in his women maintain a strict sense of ing at which department heads accounts creat- Ringstaff A beloved school pet — a bearded dragon usual home. are scheduled to explain their ed using his financial independence. See one lizard — had gone missing, and Park View Taped to the front of the aquarium were a requests will take place May 5 at name. On one of the accounts person’s perspective on why this is Elementary School students and their families ransom note from the “kidnapper,” an image 3 p.m. there is a screen shot of a cell- critical in the guest “Viewpoint” on were tasked with finding out who might have of a fingerprint and some yellow crime scene The timeline calls for the phone with Facebook messages Page 12 of today’s edition. abducted him. tape. County Commission to vote on between two people. This screen Students and families put their detective The school invited students and their fami- approval of the budget and tax shot was then ‘retweeted’ to sev- skills to work during a recent CSI Night, this lies to help solve the mystery of Scamper’s Forecast rate at its 7 p.m. session on July eral different other Twitter year’s installment of the school’s annual disappearance, and Grannan said this 5. account holders.” STEM Night event. sparked excitement for students and parents The Finance Committee will The officer’s initial report did STEM stands for science, technology, engi- alike. meet for a “retreat” to better pre- not say if Ringstaff was one of neering and math, and those subjects are Second-grade teacher Heather Hayes, who pare for the process on Feb. 22 at the two who were messaging areas of focus for the school. helped plan the event, said the school this 4 p.m., in the mayor’s conference each other. However, in a synop- “This allows the kids to explore them to year experienced “the biggest turnout ever” for room in the courthouse annex. sis of the case provided by the solve a mystery,” Principal Jodie Grannan a STEM event. Part of next year’s budget will said. “We want them to be excited to come to Cleveland Police Department late include debt service for bond school, and they have been.” See CASE, Page 5 this morning, Ringstaff does admit that one of the messages See BUDGET, Page 13 was from him. Today should see mostly cloudy In his synopsis, Detective Daniel Gibbs said that Ringstaff skies and a 30 percent chance of advised Monday night, “... for showers, with afternoon thunder- Huggins-Jones murder trial is underway the sake of his wife he wishes storms also possible, and a high not to pursue with the criminal near 68. Tonight calls for showers By ALLEN MINCEY Jonathan Broun, had sought to have parole to avoid the death penalty. the death penalty taken off the table, The three are accused in the May investigation at this time, and possible thunderstorms, with a Banner Staff Writer because the messages were from but Freeman said this attempt was 14, 2013, death of Huggins-Jones, low around 60. South winds of 15 Opening statements in the trial of unsuccessful. him but sent a year ago.” who had moved to Raleigh, N.C, that In his original report to CPD, mph could gust as high as 25 mph. Travion Devonte Smith, one of three She also said there is no plea year from Cleveland. Huggins-Jones Wednesday calls for a 90 percent accused in the May 2103 murder of agreement with a second defendant the school system director said had worked in banking in Cleveland that he did not create the Twitter chance of rain, with a high around former Clevelander Melissa Huggins- — Sarah Rene Redden — who earlier before the move, and had just start- 60. Wednesday night should be Jones, begin today in North Carolina reports had said had an agreement accounts nor did he know who ed a new job before being attacked in was responsible. But, he did tell Superior Court. to testify against Smith. partly cloudy, with a low around 34. her apartment. She had recently the police department late The death penalty will be sought Redden has not been tried for the divorced, and was living in the Monday that he did not wish the should Smith be convicted of the homicide yet, but a third defendant, Index Raleigh area with her 8-year-old investigation into the Twitter homicide, according to Wake County Ronald Lee Anthony, pleaded guilty daughter while her son stayed in Classified................................14-15 (N.C) District Attorney Lorrin to first-degree murder and accepted Comics...........................................6 Freeman. Smith’s attorney, a sentence of life in prison without See HUGGINS-JONES, Page 13 Huggins-Jones See RINGSTAFF, Page 13 Editorials......................................12 Horoscope......................................6 Obituaries.......................................2 Commission approves Sports........................................9-11 Stocks............................................4 new contract for SPCA TV Schedule..................................7 By BRIAN GRAVES Weather..........................................8 Banner Staff Writer “We will be able to Around Town The debate over a new con- get a little more staff tract between the county and and do some good Lisa Cranfield restocking the the SPCA of Bradley County things. I think pecan rolls ... Area resident ended with a volume barely everybody in Bradley Clyde Farmer expressing grati- reaching that of the whimper of County is going to be tude to Constable Dewayne a newborn puppy.