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SNOW DAZE: Winter storm misses county, leaves dusting of snow
Staff Photo by Christen Coulon
Jasette Flanigan and Nathan Lambert enjoy their snow day last Friday having a snowball fight in Bethel Springs after a major winter storm passed over the county. The worst of the storm which was predicted to leave up to 6 inches of show here missed McNairy County leaving northern parts of the county with up to one inch and southern parts getting little more than a dusting. -SEE PAGE 2A for more winter fun pictures.
3 stabbed, baby threatened in knife attack Noah Chamberlin search ends in tragedy By Jeff Whitten Head News Writer
Michael Lee King, 33, of Savannah, Tenn. was arrested for aggravated assault and attempted second degree murder last Friday, according to the Savannah Police Department. These charges are in connection with a tripple stabbing at 95 Bellwood St. Savannah police Ptl. Jeremy Bowen and Ptl. Robert Steward spoke with several subjects that stated Michael King had stabbed three victims, according to a preliminary investigative report by Ptl. Wesley A. Davis, provided by Savannah Police Chief Gary Will, Jr.
King is charged with stabbing Kristian Thacker, Anna Martin and Paula Jerrolds. Martin told Steward that King had stabbed the three. She said that King and Thacker entered the residence to clean up after a fight. She noticed cut wounds on Thacker, who told her King had stabbed her. Bowen observed a laceration on Martin’s forehead. Jerrolds had a severe laceration on her face and Thacker had a laceration on her forehead. Isiah Shubert told Bowen that when King was talking to Martin, he cut her and that King had tried to stab an infant, who was present. King then allegedly went to
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a short time, shifting her attention to her granddaughter, before looking back and noticing he was gone. They were walking in the woods behind her house. It has been speculated that Noah ran away and hid from his grandmother, as he liked to do. Thousands of volunteers and law enforcement officers spent days searching in treacherous terrain, in bad weather during freezing temperatures. Officers have said there is no reason to suspect foul
Hopes for finding two-year old Pinson, Tenn. toddler Noah Chamberlin alive were dashed last Thursday when his body was found about one and one half miles from where he went missing, according to media reports. Noah went missing Jan. 14 when he was on a nature hike with his grandmother and his four-year-old sister when he wandered off. His grandmother said she looked away from him for NOAH CHAMBERLIN
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Visiting artists hold February art show at the Latta in Selmer By Christen Coulon Managing Editor
Arts in McNairy will feature visiting artists Miranda Herrick and Nathan Parker at the Latta Building in Selmer beginning next Monday. The two artists will bring a mix of work touching on the present and the past with their materials and subject matter. Some of Herrick’s work will use recycled aluminum cans to create detailed mosaics. Parker’s work will feature local albeit pre-historic subjects from the Mesozoic Era who swam the seas of what is now the Coon Creek formation. “This exhibit has reliance locally because of our quilting tradition which shares similarities with Herrick’s work because it uses post consumer products and shows how creative spirit and ingenuity can turn locally available materials into complex artworks,” said Lanessa Miller, visual arts chair for Arts in McNairy. “Bringing in visiting artists generates discussion about arts locally. AiM wants to inspire local artists to see and be seen.” The Clarksville, Tenn. artists will hang a month-long show featuring their work. Herrick who was recently interviewed for
the television show Tennessee Crossroads said she is bringing some drawings as well as some of her mixed media mosaic artwork using aluminum cans. Herrick designed stained glass windows for the 1st Presbyterian Church in Clarksville and said that her interview for the show covered that recent work and the mosaic work she will be bringing here. Herrick will share the show with Parker who will bring oil paintings of pre-historic animals from Tennessee’s past including those found at Coon Creek. “They will be oil paintings, he may have a few other pieces, but that is mainly what he is focusing on for the show,” Herrick said. Herrick said that Parker’s paintings were made specifically for this show here in McNairy County. Their show begins next week at the Latta Building and will run throughout February. Herrick and Parker will host a closing reception on March 5 from 2-4 p.m at the Latta Building. Herrick said that the interview for Tennessee Crossroads will not air until March after her show closes here, but said her work can be viewed at mirandaherrick. com.
Aluminum can artwork by Miranda Herrick similar to the work the visiting artist plans to display at Latta in February.
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