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County mayor: Optimistic but cautious about COVID-19Just 16 months into his tenure as Bedford County Mayor, Chad Graham faced a challenge no one could have predicted: COVID-19. The coronavirus landed in the United States in January 2019 and was first... -
County jobless rate spikes during COVID-19Based on the latest statistics released from Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Bedford County’s unemployment rate for April was 18.7 percent — a 15.5 percent spike since...
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Stories reflect their times (5/30/20)B oth fiction and nonfiction often date themselves as belonging to certain eras, before or after world events have occurred that forever change the way we do things. I remember when you could visit...
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Proclaiming Jesus in every language (5/30/20)W e celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, and important dates and milestones in a variety of ways. Back in the 1970s, while I was in Bible College in California, I celebrated my spiritual birthday with...
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Just a little too far (5/23/20)I want to tell you an interesting story, a true story. According to news reports, Evelyn Mills Moore of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and Ina Garrett of Selmer, Tennessee were both arrested on...
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About those masks (5/23/20)Folks who read these articles often ask me how I pick my topics. Mostly, I wait for something in my daily life to jump out at me and give me ideas. This time, to make a seriously bad pun, it was...
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Keeping Memorial Day lunch simple (5/23/20)When it comes to planning the annual Memorial Day lunch, especially during a pandemic, the best thing to do from the kitchen is likely seal the lunch with a K.I.S.S., that is, keep it simple... -
Shelbyville Rainbow Group still going strong (5/23/20)Shelbyville Central High School student Trinity Vickers is a part of the Shelbyville Rainbow Hunt Group on Facebook. Here’s a poem the student has written to “spread the happiness” during COVID-19....
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Which songs make you cry? (5/30/20)“Late at night when it’s hard to rest/I hold your picture to my chest/ and I feel fine, I feel fine/But it’s a rainy night in Georgia…” – written by Tony Joe White and performed by Brook Benton I...
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GUEST COLUMN: Motlow celebrates a half century of community service (5/16/20)We always start with each of our communities in mind, but this spring of 2020 united us all in the Middle Tennessee region served by Motlow State Community College. We unite behind the success of...
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Bobby Joe Pope (6/1/20)Bobby J. Pope, 85, of Shelbyville died Sunday, May 31, 2020. Graveside service will be held 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Willow Mount Cemetery with Pastor Joe Thompson officiating. Visitation will be 11... -
Denise Scott (6/1/20)Denise Scott, 60, of Shelbyville died Friday, May 29, 2020 in Nashville. The family will have a memorial service Saturday, June 6 at Trinity Baptist Church in Shelbyville to celebrate her...
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Michael “Pot Gut” Gillespie (6/1/20)Michael “Pot Gut” Gillespie, 46, of Spring Hill, formerly of Chapel Hill, died Sunday, May 31, 2020 in Nashville. He was the son of Jimmy Joe (Sarah) Gillespie of Shelbyville. Funeral services will...
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IN THE MATTER OF: MALE CHILD DOB: 03/01/2017 Timothy Cody Wright Petitioner Vs Tiffany Michelle Martin (now Vincent) Respondent. In the Circuit Court of Bedford County Case No. CV-13614. In this cause, it appearing from the Complaint which is sworn to that the last known address of the Respondent, Tiffany Michelle Martin (now Vincent), was 728 El Bethel Road, Shelbyville, TN 37160 so that ordinary process cannot be served upon said Respondent, Tiffany Michelle Martin (now Vincent). You are...
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NOTICE OF MEETING & PUBLIC HEARING BEDFORD COUNTY 9-1-1 DISTRICT 9-1-1 BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Board of Directors of the Bedford County 9-1-1 Emergency Communications District will meet at 4:30 p.m., June 24, in the Bedford County Business Complex at 200 Dover Street, Suite 111, Shelbyville, or such other location as may be posted there. A public hearing of the proposed budget for the new fiscal year will be review. The fiscal year begins July 1. Members of the Board may...
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