The Shipley gang
Former Cookeville City Councilperson Bettye Vaden, center with enhanced lashes, waving, hams it up in the lobby of the Broad Street post office with City Manager Jim Shipley, left, City Attorney Mike O'mara (holding poster), Shipley's assistant, Gail Fowler, back to camera, and John Duffy, right, on Oct. 12, 2001, after a federal jury found the city did not violate the First Amendment by refusing an Internet link from the city's web site to The Putnam Pit.