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AT COOKEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER. A baby girl was born on the sidewalk just outside the Monterey Family Dollar Store, delivered by her grandfather. Pictured several days after they arrived at Cookeville Medical Center, grandfather Claude Maxwell, mom, Jolynn Vaughn and new daughter, Jade Coral Maxwell, all of Cliff Springs. Photo: Dale Welch/Hilltop Express

BABY GIRL BORN ON DOWNTOWN SIDEWALK

 Grandpa helps to deliver baby on sidewalk in front of Family Dollar.

  Its been awhile since a baby has been born in downtown Monterey. The hospital closed in  the early-1970s. It wasn't in Jolynn Vaughn’s plans to deliver her new daughter in downtown Monterey, and surely not on a sidewalk. It wasn’t grandfather Claude Maxwell’s  plan to help deliver the baby either,but that’s what happened.

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GROOVER'S RAT ROD FEATURED IN MAGAZINES

...AND COUNTRY MUSIC VIDEO

By Dale Welch
Hilltop Express
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   Matthew Groover's rat rod has recently been featured in a couple of magazines, including Grease Money and on the cover of the nationally distributed RatRod magazine. It was also in a breaking new County music group video.
  Matt bought the old 1945 Chevrolet pickup truck from James Smith, who used it mostly to haul rock. The Cadillac motor and drive train was purchased from George Bright; and the truck bed, from Benny Buckner and put it all together.
  A rat rod is a style of hot rod or custom car that, in most cases, imitates (or exaggerates) the early hot rods of the 40s, 50s, and 60s. It is not to be confused with the somewhat closely related "traditional" hot rod, which is an accurate re-creation or period-correct restoration of a hot rod from the same era.
  Grover put his rat rod together a couple of years ago. At his first showing at the Standing Stone Day celebration a year or so ago, he had worked on it for eight months.
  The old truck had set on a eastern-Putnam County farm for several years. Groover started to straighten the cab room, but it was rusted so bad it all fell apart. So, he made it into a sun roof.
  It doesn’t look like it would get much mileage, but on the open road, the rat rod get around 30 mpg, Groover said.
  At some of the other shows that Groover participated in, he met with different photographers and magazine editors who  were interested in the old army truck. Next thing you know, images of Groover’s rat rod spread across the country.
  While he thinks he will keep the truck, Groover says he’s ready to start on something else.

Aldermen get update on new city manager position

By Dale Welch
Hilltop Express
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   Monterey aldermen voted late last year to start the process to create a city manager form of government for the town. It was tried several years ago and came down to the actual hiring process, but was eventually dropped when the board could not come to a decision.

  This time, the Municipal Technical Assistance Service (MTAS) has been working on getting everything needed to start the process. A sample job description was given for information to aldermen in their January meeting.

  Sample qualifications include that the person must have a degree from a four-year college in public administration, political science, business management or a closely related field and seven years of experience as municipal administrator.

  A Master’s degree in Public or Business Administration may be substituted in lieu of two of the required years of experience.

  Warren Nevad, of MTAS , prepared the town manager position draft.He stated in an email that MTAS has started a compensation study. After that, he said, they would put together amended language for a char ter change that would be introduced in February.

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NEW MONTEREY DEPOT ORNAMENT GOES ON SALE 

The latest Monterey Depot Historical Society Christimas ornament is now avaliblefor a $20 donation. The scene is taken from an early postcard of hte Monterey Depot. They are availabe  at the Cup & Saucer and BenAnns. Last years ornament was a quick sell-out.

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LOVEJOY TRAIN WRECK OCT. 30, 1919

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HIT AND RUN.
  A hit-and-run driver ran through the front of Triple B Feeds early Monday moring around 8 a.m. Witnesses described to police that it was a small red car that crashed into the store window. A blue blazer with previous damage to the back passenger side door was also in the vicinity at the time of the crash wittnesses told police and Triple B Feed store owners.. City workers cleaned up glass on the roadway from the alley, North Holly St. and W. Cleveland Ave. toward the nursing home. Pictured, owner Debbie Bowman tries to clean up the mess inside and outside of her store. Photo: Dale Welch/Hilltop Express

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The new edition at Burks Middle School will be called the “Uffelman Wing. It is scheduled to be complete sometime between October and December, officials say. Photo: Dale Welch/Hilltop Express

SCHOOL NAMING COMMITTEE CHANGES MIND...

NEW SCHOOL NAME TO BE 'BURKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL'

The school naming committee, made up of several school and community people in Monterey, had voted to change the name of “Burks Middle School” to “Monterey Elementary School” last December. They met last week, again, to reconsider those actions because a few of the members could not be at the December meeting.

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WRITE A LETTTER TO YOURSELF...

TO BE READ 20 YEARS FROM NOW AT DEPOT MUSEUM

Write a letter to yourself.  Its a project of the new Monterey Central Transportation Museum (Monterey Depot).
 You are invited to write a letter to yourself, or leave a message for your children or grandchildren. Tell them abut yourself and what you expect of them; or remind yourself of what you want to be.

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BIG STEPS.

Concrete and asphalt were two of the biggest ingredients on the Monterey Central Transportation Museum list last week. Painting inside walls and ceiling were also done last week. Depending on weather, pavers for the Rails with Trails will be in place on the Depot property, starting this week. Thanks to Monterey Fire Chief Kevin Peters for allowing me on the ladder truck for this arial photo. Photo: Dale Welch/Hilltop Express

METHADONE CLINIC APPLICATION EXPECTED TO BE WITHDRAWN FOR SECOND TIME

By Dale Welch
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  An application for a proposed methadone clinic to be located just outside Monterey town limits has been put on hold for a second time because of a technicality. A pubic hearing that had been scheduled for Sept. 16 at Monterey High School and a hearing in Nashville, that had been set for late October has also been put on hold.
 “The public hearing has been delayed,”Melanie Hill, Executive Director, of Health Services and Development Agency, said, “because it is expected that Private Clinic Monterey will withdraw its application.  It will be rescheduled if the application is re-filed.”
  But, that is not keeping the Putnam and Cumberland County Commissions and other governments from voicing strong opposition to the proposed clinic. A resolution on the agendas of both county commissions says that methadone is “a synthetic opioid which produces many of the same effects in drug addicts as morphine and heroin” and is “increasingly being abused by drug users for recreation an is causing an alarming increase in overdoses and deaths”; and “contrary to popular belief, methadone is a highly addictive drug, which could easily end up on the streets of Putnam County and other ares in the Upper Cumberland”; and “the probability of any positive affects to the health care system, economy or recovering drug users in our area is unlikely”; and “there are already several drug treatment facilities available for the citizens of Putnam County and the Upper Cumberland area which include Bradford Heath, Cumberland Plateau Recovery, Recovery Living, Med Solutions and Volunteer Behavioral Health,”; and “because these facilities are already established and available to the citizens of Putnam County and the Upper Cumberland Area, there is not a need for a methadone clinic.”
  Owners of the methadone clinic, called Private Clinic Monterey, plan to build the approximate $970,000 facility at 16168 Crossville Highway. The address is near Walker Farms Rd. The purpose of the clinic is to “assist opioid addicted patients to abstain from the use of illicit drugs through detoxification, treatment and substance abuse/psychiatric counseling services. It is a private for profit outpatient clinic without state, federal or local funding.” It will serve the adult population in Putnam County and surrounding counties.
  J. Paul Connell, CEO of the proposed clinic, told the Hilltop Express in a story that ran in the May 15, 2008 edition, that his clinic Private Clinic North, in Rossville, GA., already treats around 228 patients from Putnam and surrounding counties. “We treat everyone from minimum wage earners to doctors and lawyers,” he said. The majority of Private Clinic  patients have gotten addicted to prescription drugs such as:  Codeine, Dilaudid, Heroin, Hydrocodone, Lortab, Lorcet, Percocet, Percodan, Morphine, Oxycodone, and Oxycotin.
  Connell said, “Its a treatment, not a cure. Its much like insulin is a treatment for diabetes; or eyeglasses for bad eyes. They don’t cure, but they help.”
 “With the cost of gasoline going up,” Connell said, “its getting to where the cost of transportation for those patients are more than the cost of the treatment. If we can get up there into the Monterey community, it would be easier for our patients.”
  Connell said that he has already bought a home in the area for his family.
 Property records show that Connell Properties bought the 7.83 acres  where the Methadone clinic is planned over a year ago, in May, 2007.
  Connell told the Hilltop Express, “I thought about it and prayed about it. Now, its time to build it.” He said that while doctors and nurses will mostly come from the present clinics, others could be hired locally. He said the payroll for the clinic would be from $1.3 to $1.6 million. More information about what the clinic offers can be found on the Internet at:
www.privateclinicnorth.com

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  Monterey founders Union General John T. Wilder and wife, Dora Lee, along with Major Robert Moscrip and wife, Emma will return to Monterey on Friday, Oct 10, just about a month away to talk about the old days. You’re invited out to the Garden Inn (with ticket in hand) for dinner and to hear their tales.
  Dining with the Moscrips and The Wilders is a special dinner theatre helping kick off  the big celebration planned for Standing Stone Day, Sat. Oct. 11. The Moscrips will be played by Monterey natives Opless and Kay Walker. The Wilders will be played by John and Judy Wassum, of Rockwood, who live in one of General Wilders home. Gen. Wilder also had a home in Monterey that still stands. Ruth Ann Woolbright and husband, Bill Longmire, live there. Woolbright will be directing the play.
  The play will relive defining moments of their lives, which resulted in a railroad, a town on the plateau, coal mines and a lumber industry that would touch the lives of thousands of people across America.
  Moscrip was involved in one of the most historical events in the history of railroading in America, as one of the civil engineers responsible for the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. Moscrip had friendships with the likes of Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok. Moscrip will reveal in the play how he became a captive of the Cheyenne Indians and how he escaped with the help of his Pawnee Indian Scout. Besides all these adventures, he was the winner of a contest that gave Monterey its name in 1893.
 John T. Wilder, known as the "Friendly Carpetbagger" was the leader of the Lightning Brigade of Indiana and hero of the Battle of Chickamauga in Sept. 1863 where he and his men armed with 7-shot Spencers  gave Thomas time to form a defense line.
 He was one of the 20,000 Union veterans who immigrated to the South by 1866, attracted by the possibilities of places that they had seen during their military campaigns. For a time, he was Mayor of Chattanooga and later, had federal appointments.
 In September, 1865, he and his friend, Capt. Hiram S. Chamberlain of Knox County, purchased 728 acres of land in Roane County along the Tennessee River and founded the town of Rockwood with its Roane Iron Company, one of the first post-war industrial establishments in the South. Wilder would continue to hold interests in mining and cement and banking around Knoxville, Tennessee, and built the 300-room Cloudland Hotel on Roane Mt. summit in 1885 as a retreat for hay fever sufferers.
  An industrialist, he had numerous business interests in coal, timber, iron, railroads and more. He built a hotel in Monterey, called the Imperial Hotel in the early 1900s and also a residence. The mining town of Wilder was founded by him.
  Tickets will be on sale soon for the dinner theatre at a cost of $35 for one person , $60 per couple and $150 per table of six, that includes a dinner of a grilled pork chop, sweet potato casserole , corn souffle, dessert,  and coffee or tea. For more information, contact Ruth Ann Woolbright at, 839-2467.


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