TITAN UP! Patriots fall in AFC wild card game. D1 Herald-CitizenSUNDAY,Herald-Citizen JANUARY 5, 2020 | COOKEVILLE, TENNESSEE 117TH YEAR | NO. 003 $1.50 H-C moves to morning delivery Beginning this week subscribers of the Her- ald-Citizen can expect to receive their printed newspaper by 6 a.m. Tuesday through Friday. Sunday delivery will remain the same. “Since announcing our plans last month to move to morning delivery, the response from our readers and advertisers has been over- whelmingly positive,” said Publisher Jack McNeely. McNeely also emphasized that the morning newspaper will off er the same local news, sports and features that subscribers have come to love in the afternoon paper. “But now you can consume it with your morn- ing coff ee,” he said. Digital subscribers will also have access to the weekday e-editions by 1 a.m. “While our expectation is that all deliveries of the newspaper will be completed by 6 a.m., I ask that folks wait until 7 a.m. to call regard- ing delivery issues. Our circulation staff will be available at that time to respond to delivery issues,” McNeely said. Please call the paper’s primary number at 931-526-9715. If staff is not available or helping another customer, a new answering service will direct you to the appropriate department. Also, the newspaper’s Monday Email Blast will move from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. to accommo- date adjusted work schedules and death notices that are submitted later Monday afternoon. McNeely praised his staff and independent carrier fl eet who have made necessary adjust- ments to work and personal schedules to make this conversion as seamless as possible. Shooting JACK MCNEELY | HERALD-CITIZEN Hometown proud suspect Thousands of people flocked to Tennessee Tech University’s Hooper Eblen Center Saturday afternoon to attend a free concert by Cookeville talent Jake Hoot, who recently won season arrested 17 of The Voice. “We want to see Hoot,” exclaimed sisters Sheila Lazy and Cynthia Wells, who BY PAIGE STANAGE drove nearly three hours from northeast Alabama to see The Voice sensation perform before his HERALD-CITIZEN hometown crowd. The event was a collaboration of local governmental agencies and businesses, led by Cookeville Mayor Ricky Shelton. Shelton, above, unveiled a “Jake Hoot Dr.” road sign that A Cookeville man was arrested Friday after- will be place at the Habitat for Humanity build site in Cookeville. The local Habitat for Humanity noon in connection with a shooting that hap- was one of three local charitable organizations to receive checks totaling more than $15,000. The pened early Friday morning. funds were generated from the sale of “Jake Hoot” merchandise as the singer progressed on The Erick Archibald, 44, was arrested and charged Voice. More photos are on A3, online at Herald-Citizen.com and on our Facebook page. with aggravated assault. His bond is $30,000, according to the Cookeville Police Department release. Archibald and the victim were arguing at an apartment on North School board receives Dixie Avenue when he shot her, according to the release. “An earlier report to police that Archibald an unknown person in a dark hood- security update ie shooting the victim was false,” the release states. “The shooting actually result- BY JIM HERRIN public can just see, so we want ed from a domestic violence incident.” HERALD-CITIZEN to remind them what we’re The victim was taken to Cookeville Regional doing with the funds that we’ve Medical Center where she was then transported “School safety is a constant been given by the state,” King to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. conversation in the schools,” said. She is in stable condition, according to the said Deputy Director Corby King said the system received release. King as he updated school $105,000 in recurring funds A juvenile was at the residence when the shoot- board members this month for the 2018-19 school year, and ing occurred and was uninjured in the incident. on the security measures that one-time funds in the amount of He was placed with family members, the re- have been taken over the past $265,000. lease states. couple of years. “We have now spent or en- More charges are expected following the inves- He said school offi cials and cumbered all of that money,” he tigation. SROs address security issues said. “The success of this investigation was the “daily,” and also meet month- King said funding was spent product of the diligent work by members of the- ly to review emergency plans on a new anonymous tip line Cookeville Police Department, the Department through the Local Emergency to report potential threats and of Children Services, and the Upper Cumber- Planning Committee (LEPC) bullying. landChild Advocacy Center,” according to the and individual School Emergen- “We have been pleased with JIM HERRIN | HERALD-CITIZEN release. cy Response Teams (SERT). it so far,” he said. “We’ve had Deputy Director of Schools Corby Anyone with more information about the “But a lot of the things we’ve King talks to the school board shooting can call the CPD Criminal Investiga- done .. are not things that the SEE UPDATE, PAGE A2 about security. tion Division at 520-5322. herald-citizen.com INDEX 5 sections | 36 pages OBITUARIES Page A7 DEAR ABBY B2 OPINION A4 Opal Johnson, Cookeville Catherine Glover, Smith Co. Royce Clinton, Cookeville Linda Bowers, Nashville CALENDAR A6 SPORTS D1 Robert Fowler, Cookeville Anna Reagan Cookeville Elizabeth Armstrong, Cookeville Michael Nash, Alabama CLASSIFIED C1 SUDOKU E5 Charles Hamlet Jr. Cookeville Larry Hix, Whitleyville Bobbie Ensley, Cookeville A2 HERALD-CITIZEN FROM PAGE 1 SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 2020 herald-citizen.com 0LOTTERY0 Friday African Children’s Choir returning to Cookeville Cash 3 BY BEN WHEELER and they all talk a lot Midday 9-9-0, Lucky HERALD-CITIZEN about the experience Sum: 18 Morning 3-2-0, Lucky it’s given them,” Sipp Sum: 5 “People can expect to said. “And fl uency and Cash 4 be inspired.” mastery of English is Midday 7-4-5-3, Lucky That’s what Choir critical for them. The Sum: 19 Manager Tina Sipp experience of being Morning 7-0-2-3, Lucky said attendees can exposed to the world is Sum: 12 expect when the Afri- immeasurable. Saturday can Children’s Choir “Not only do we want Cash 3 returns this month. to put on great perfor- Midday 7-2-0, Lucky While this isn’t the mances, but we want Sum: 9 Morning 2-0-1, Lucky fi rst time they have to also create really Sum: 3 come to town, it will be wonderful people.” Cash 4 an experience for the 17 The choir will be Midday 1-3-1-0, Lucky children from Uganda performing at 6 p.m. Sum: 5 as well as the audience. Jan. 19 at Cookeville Morning 9-2-2-6, Lucky “We’re not just put- Church of the Naza- Sum: 19 ting on shows. At the rene. Tickets are free, end of the day, we’re but donations are creating a way for them The African Children’s Choir will be returning to Cookeville Jan. 19 to encouraged. 0READERREADER SSERVICESERVICES0 to be profound,” Sipp perform at the Cookeville Church of the Nazarene. “We couldn’t have Address: said. “Coming from done this without plac- 1300 Neal St. extreme poverty, you iency of the children.” according to Sipp. Af- her how important it es like Cookeville and Cookeville, TN 38501 can’t just pull yourself The performers, ages ter being involved for has been for some. the host families and up by your bootstraps. eight to 11, will have the past 16 years, Sipp “I’ve been able to so many others,” Sipp Mailing Address: People are touched by their education paid said speaking to former speak to dozens of said. “The ripple eff ect the joy, hope and resil- for through college, performers has shown former choir kids, is huge.” P.O. Box 2729 Cookeville TN 38502 Phone: 931-526-9715 Boyd addresses complaints Fax: 931-526-1209 News [email protected] about winter break timing Sports [email protected] BY JIM HERRIN committee had to work within certain Advertising HERALD-CITIZEN parameters as they scheduled the [email protected] required 180 instructional days, while Living As Putnam County students headed accommodating the wish to start [email protected] back to class Friday, many of them schools as close to Aug. 1 as possible Circulation and perhaps their parents were appar- and dismissing for the year by Memo- [email protected] ently unhappy about the timing. rial Day. Business News “Board members, I know, have “The way the calendar worked out [email protected] gotten the question at least 10, 15, 20 or this particular year, it put us to where Church News 100 times, as well as I have, about why we either started earlier in July, or [email protected] we’re going to school (on a Friday),” we start when we did (July 30), and we School News Director of Schools Jerry Boyd said to go on a Friday and have a very short [email protected] a round of laughter at the beginning instructional week,” he said. “That Classified Ads of Thursday’s board meeting. may not be an adequate explanation [email protected] He said the school system’s calendar for people, but those are the details.” Letter Guidelines All letters to the editor must be signed and include the writer’s H-C FILE Tennessee GOP US Rep.