6—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, January 4, 2016
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with 105 new jobs.
- SPCA requested a $40,000
increase in its annual revenue
from Bradley County.
- Sarah Coleman began her
term as the new clerk and master.
- Another proposal to raise
county property taxes, this time
by 10 cents, fell one vote short
in the County Commission.
- Bill Ledford, the longestserving commissioner in Bradley
County history, died at the age
of 79.
- The Rotary Club of Cleveland
relocated its meetings back to
the downtown area for the first
time in 35 years. Members now
meet weekly at the Museum
Center at Five Points.
- The County Clerk’s Office
issued the county’s first samesex marriage certificate hours
after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling saying those couple have the
constitutional right to be married.
July
- Bill George was honored as
Rotarian of the Year by the
Rotary Club of Cleveland.
- The first proposal for a county budget was described as
“lean” at $35.1 million.
- The County Commission
approved a budget with no tax
The governor popped
into town for a collegial
visit and the subject of
dogs, which had been
silent for awhile, began
barking once again.
hike.
- Katie Breland was named
the 2016 Distinguished Woman
of the Year.
- Emergency responders
mourned the death of veteran
BCFR Capt. Wallace Varnell,
who was killed in a traffic accident in his personal vehicle.
- State Speaker of the House
Beth Harwell named Lou Patten,
chairman of the Cleveland
Municipal Airport Authority
which governs the regional
Jetport, and Gary Farlow, president and CEO of the
Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of
Commerce to a task force studying the funding mechanisms of
airport facilities.
- Six Cleveland Daily Banner
writers and editors earned seven
awards, including two first-place
honors during the recent awards
banquet of the 2015 Tennessee
Press Association newspaper
contest.
August
- Troy Scot Carter was sentenced to 34 months in a federal
prison after pleading guilty to
fraudulent billing the Church of
God in a scheme which officials
said totalled $900,000.
- Debra Norton Jenkins lost
both of her legs after an
unmanned 2004 Ford F350
Crew Cab with a dump truck bed
rolled backward from the garage
area of the county road department into a raised-bed garden in
which she and another employee, Ted Dobbs, were working.
- County Trustee Mike Smith
reported the county’s finances
are “in excellent shape.”
- A debate continued on the
city and county’s role concerning
animal pickup.
- Commissioner Milan Blake
began the discussion on finding
more efficient ways through
tec