The Daily Newspaper of the Upper Cumberland Herald-Citizen www.herald-citizen.com ‘Felt Good’ All three Putnam teams etteRs NYC attacker talks about prepare for 2017 postseason l killings debuts Page B1 Readers speak out Page A5 Playoffs: Page A4 115th Year | No. 260 | thuRsday, november 2, 2017 | Cookeville, Tennessee 50¢ Food Corridor pantry analysis donations lists collected priorities BY LINDSAY MCREYNOLDS [email protected] BY LAURA MILITANA As the holiday season begins, [email protected] many are thinking about donat- ing to those who need help. The recent transportation Helping Hands food pantry is study indicates 21 proposed always accepting donations, but improvements to Cooke - now through Nov. 18, a special ville’s major corridors. collection for non-perishable A number of those are on items is set up at Andy’s Phar- South Willow and Jefferson macy at Willow Avenue and avenues. Spring Street. Engineering firm WSP A container for Helping Hands presented a list of those pro- is set up in the lobby of the phar- posed improvements to the macy collecting items such as council and planning com- toothpaste, toilet paper, diapers, mission members Monday peanut butter, deodorant and night, along with estimated laundry soap. costs, topping $68 million. “People think people who use The most expensive proj- the food shelf are lazy and have ect is improving North Wil- huge families, but 60 percent of low Avenue from West the families we see are families Broad Street to West 12th of one or two people,” Helping Street, including eastbound Hands Executive Director Debbie and westbound right turn Handlson said. “We serve about lanes at West 3rd, 4th and 200 families per month. We’re 9th Street intersections. The very grateful they’re doing this.” price? $36,982,000. Those who seek food from It’s one of six projects Helping Hands must live in Put- listed in the near-term pri- nam County, provide a photo ority list. identification and Social Security The second most costly card, mail to verify proof of resi- proposed project is improv- dence and answer intake ques- ing East 10th Street from tions including the number of North Washington Avenue Jim Herrin | Herald-Citizen people in the family, monthly to Chocolate Drive at a price rent and education background. A fall decoration adorns the lawn at Algood Elementary School. See CORRIDOR, Page A3 See PANTRY, Page A2 School board changes Monterey bid options for mowing Opening Friday BY JIM HERRIN planning for [email protected] The Putnam County school board Christmas is changing the way it bids out the mowing contract for the county BY JIM HERRIN schools. [email protected] “The intent is to break up the bids so that smaller entities would have a Another Halloween is in the chance to bid on the projects,” said books, and officials in Monterey Director of Schools Jerry Boyd. are now turning their thoughts to The action comes at the request of Christmas. board member David McCormick. Jim Herrin | Herald-Citizen An Angel Tree has been set up “I just feel like that when we do at the Monterey Branch Library, the system as a whole, there’s not a Sun shines on the grass in front of and donations are being accepted. lot of people that have the manpower Monterey High School Tuesday. The library receives the angel to bid on that, so we’re not getting requests from the local schools, the best price we can get,” he said. to five years,” Boyd said. “ We are and they encourage those who “If we break it up into smaller sec- currently at the end of year five with can to buy a gift for a needy child. tions, there will be more people, I services ending Nov. 15, 2017.” Cash donations or gift cards are think, bid on it because they’ve got Boyd said the cost for the mowing also accepted. (the) manpower to do (a smaller services this year was $181,300 and Don Foy | Herald-Citizen All gifts are due back to the li- job).” includes scheduled mowing services brary by Dec. 8. The current mowing contract is for a total of 22 properties. Griffin Hawkins is Sebastian Meanwhile, the Monterey with Turf Master Landscape Man- The new bid specs will change in the Cookeville Children's Christmas Parade, sponsored by agement. that. Theatre production of Dis- the Monterey Civitan Club, Mon- “The original term of the contract “The bid specifications for future ney's "The Little Mermaid," terey Lions Club, Monterey Gar- began on July 1, 2012 (and went) lawn care services will include pro- opening Friday at CPAC. For through Nov. 12, 2013, with an option ticket info, call the CPAC See MONTEREY, Page A2 for annual renewal by the Board up See MOWING, Page A2 ticket office at 528-1313. Index Obituaries, A7 PumPkin ROll 2 Sections — 16 Pages Arthur Hall Emogene Dietz That pumpkin Abby A8 Living A7 Sue Kelly Frances Moran roll recipe you’ve Calendar A6 Opinion A4 Kevin Hawkins Henrietta Lollar been looking for Waymond Smith Wiladean Hall Classified B4 Sports B1 — Here it is Comics A9 Sudoku A8 Page A8 Crossword A9 Weather A2 A2 — HERALD-CITIZEN, Cookeville, Tenn. — www.herald-citizen.com — Thursday, November 2, 2017 LOCAL READER SERVICES New home for General Assembly BY KATE COOK spread across three buildings are complete and ready for oc- The Cordell Hull building is [email protected] in Legislative Plaza. This cupation. right next to Legislative Contact us: week, they’ll move to the “We’re moving in later this Plaza. Address: If you go to Nashville to see newly refurbished Cordell week,” Kufner said. Sen. Paul Bailey posted on 1300 Neal St. your legislator, you’ll need to Hull building. Kufner said the goal is to social media that his office go to a different building. Two years ago, the General get all offices moved, up and would be difficult to call this Cookeville, Tenn. State House of Representa- Assembly started a $44 mil- running as quickly as possi- week because of the move. tives spokesman Doug Kufner lion renovation on the Cordell ble. He recommended con- Mailing Address: said all legislative offices are Hull building. “We want to make the tran- stituents contact his office P.O. Box 2729 moving. Right now, they’re Kufner said the renovations sition seamless,” Kufner said. through email. Cookeville TN 38502 Phone: 931-526-9715 Fax: 931-526-1209 MOWING: Email: News [email protected] Sports Board changes [email protected] Advertising [email protected] bid options Living [email protected] Circulation From Page A1 [email protected] Business News visions that will allow multiple providers to [email protected] competitively bid for regional clusters of Church News properties,” Boyd said. “Contracts will be [email protected] awarded to the lowest and best bidders that School News meet the necessary qualifications for each of [email protected] the regional clusters of properties. Depend- Classified Ads ing of the outcome of the bids, a single service [email protected] provider could be awarded a contract for more than one regional cluster of properties. On the contrary, contracts could also be awarded Letter Guidelines to different service providers based on the re- sults of the bids for each cluster.” All letters to the editor must Boyd said the regional clusters will be be signed and include the specifically identified in the bid documents by writer’s name, address and schools and properties in each of the four phone number. Letters are areas of Putnam County: Algood, Baxter, subject to editing and/or re- Cookeville and Monterey. In addition to the jection. A strict 400-word limit will be enforced. Send letters geographical location, the cluster of schools to the mailing address listed may also reflect the PreK-8 feeder patterns. above, or email to But Boyd cautioned that not every lawn [email protected]. mowing service will qualify for the job. “Those kinds of services have to be licensed and bonded. It couldn’t just be some commu- Order a Photo Lindsay McReynolds | Herald-Citizen nity member that did not have all of those Every photograph taken by a Her- Lisa Allen Phillips of Andy’s Pharmacy with Debbie Handlson of Helping credentials,” he said. ald-Citizen photographer and Hands hold some jars of peanut butter outside the pharmacy at Willow Board member Celeste Gammon said there published in the paper is available Avenue and Spring Street, where non-perishable items are being col- were advantages to splitting up the work. for purchase. Go to www.herald- lected for Helping Hands. “I think each community takes a lot of pride citizen.com and click on “Photo in their schools, so if we had somebody, Gallery.” Also, many photos in- cluded in online stories are avail- maybe in Monterey, that gave a good bid, then able for purchase. they would take more pride in the property,” she said. “Same thing for Baxter and PANTRY: Donations accepted Cookeville.” Subscriptions McCormick also expressed dissatisfaction To subscribe, call 931-526- From Page A1 Phillips, sales and marketing for with the current contractor. 9715. Visa, MasterCard and Andy’s Pharmacy. I’ll be honest with you. I wasn’t happy with Discover accepted. “I had a mom in my office today Helping Hands is open Monday the mowing that went on in Monterey this last Rates: with five kids,” Handlson said. “Her through Friday, from 9 a.m.