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CITY EDITOR brian justice When Tullahoma City Schools athletes hit the gridirons, gyms, tracks, tennis courts and diamonds next academic year, they will be seeing new faces on their teams due to a new state law that allows home-schooled athletes to participate in public school programs. Gov. Bill Haslam signed the legislation recently after the Senate approved the measure 32-0 with the House concurring in a 69-24 vote. Sen.
CITY EDITOR brian justice When Tullahoma City Schools athletes hit the gridirons, gyms, tracks, tennis courts and diamonds next academic year, they will be seeing new faces on their teams due to a new state law that allows home-schooled athletes to participate in public school programs. Gov. Bill Haslam signed the legislation recently after the Senate approved the measure 32-0 with the House concurring in a 69-24 vote. Sen.
By IAN SKOTTE Staff Writer According to statistics released last year by Neilson, more than 50 percent of all cell phones in the U.S. are now smartphones — up from 47.8 percent at the end of 2011. Since the introduction of the first smartphone in 2007, young people have been latching on to the devices as a new way to communicate in the 21st century. Smartphone applications, or
By MARIAN GALBRAITH Staff Writer On Wednesday, 56 fifth-grade pupils at Farrar Elementary School were interviewed by members of the community for jobs they will perform later this week at Junior Achievement’s “Biztown,” a simulated “mini-city” in Nashville run entirely by the students themselves. The purpose of the event is to help the pupils learn how to apply for a job, balance a checkbook, and perform all the tasks
By ZACH BIRDSONG Sports Editor The Middle Tennessee Softball Coaches Association (MTSCA) honored five Tullahoma High School softball players last week. Danielle Kirkpatrick, AnnaKristen Crouch, Megan Grenier, Joanna Lyle and Aliyah Bowen were all recipients of awards from the MTSCA as announced by head coach Gary Barfield on Thursday. Kirkpatrick made it onto the 2013 Tennessee All-Star team, compromised of senior softball players from the Middle Tennessee area. Forty-five players
By ZACH BIRDSONG Sports Editor The Wildcats wrap up the spring football workouts with the annual Red vs. White scrimmage game taking place at Wilkins Stadium on Monday night. Tullahoma is coming off a season where they went 7-5 and finished second in the District 8-AAA standings. The Wildcats made it to the second round of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA) playoffs be-fore falling to Columbia, 47-24. Tullahoma
By ZACH BIRDSONG Sports Editor With two outs in the top of the seventh inning and a runner on first base, Tullahoma’s Caleb Zidan came into to pinch hit against Riverdale High School on Wednesday. On the first pitch he saw, the THS batter grounded out to shortstop and the Wildcats fell to the Warriors, 2-1. Zidan’s at-bat was a metaphor for how Tullahoma’s night went at the plate as
Forget wondering who’s the fairest; when it comes to choosing home improvements that make your home look good – from the curb and to potential buyers – it may make more sense to ask, “Who’s the greenest of them all.” Sustainable home improvements not only help reduce utility costs and boost owner satisfaction with their homes, they also make a house more appealing to potential buyers. In fact, buyers are
By Kali Bolle, Lifestyles Editor After coming through a battle with uterine cancer, Normandy resident Karen Sappington wanted to do something good. “While going through chemotherapy I saw two of my fellow friends, who also were undergoing chemo, lose their battles with cancer. After coming through my battle, I felt compelled to give back in any way that I could,” she said. For a number of years before
LIFESTYLES EDITOR, Kali Bolle As the Tullahoma High School Band warms up for an afternoon of practice, THS senior and band member Marissa Power takes time out for an interview with The News about finishing her musical career, as well as how it feels to be awarded All-State honors and to receive a music scholarship from the Middle Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association. It all begin with
Let’s talk about cell phones By ANDREA AGARDY Staff Writer All right people. The time has come to talk about cell phones. Like so many of you, I love my phone. I feel naked when I realize I’ve left it sitting on the kitchen counter, I’ve spent way too much time selecting ringtones and notification sounds and I get nervous when my little battery icon turns red. I
By Kali Bolle As I sit here and think about Mother’s Day and what it means, I ponder on all the reasons I wanted to become a mom in the first place. I wanted to know what it would be like to feel a child growing in my belly. I wanted to share and teach my child all that I had learned throughout my life. I wanted to hear my
STAFF WRITER, Andrea Agardy Asked to describe Chuck Klosterman’s “Killing Yourself to Live, 85% of a True Story,” in a nutshell, it would be easy to say it’s a book about a writer who drives across the country visiting the locations where famous rock stars died. And while true, that description doesn’t begin to tell even half the story. Klosterman, who was working as a writer for Spin magazine when
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By IAN SKOTTE Staff Writer According to statistics released last
By ZACH BIRDSONG Sports Editor The Middle Tennessee Softball Coaches Association (MTSCA)
By ZACH BIRDSONG Sports Editor The Wildcats wrap up the spring football
Forget wondering who’s the fairest; when it comes to choosing home improvements
By Kali Bolle, Lifestyles Editor After coming through a battle