Bedford County Utility District

Habitat group plans true 'home'coming for veteran (05/24/12)
Bedford Builds Habitat For Humanity has announced plans to build its next home for a veteran. The local chapter of Georgia-based non-profit Habitat For Humanity hopes to hold a groundbreaking on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, with a foundation to be laid this fall and most of the construction to take place next year, according to executive director Pam Birtcil...

Schools face budget crunch (05/15/12)
There's a gap of nearly $800,000 between where next year's school budget is and where it needs to be. That's what Bedford County Board of Education learned at a budget study session Monday night. For the past two fiscal years, 2010-11 and 2011-12, the school system has been spending more than it has taken in. The difference came out of the school system's fund balance...

Giant steps...one at a time (05/13/12)
It's an unfortunate, but true realization. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who hasn't been affected by cancer in some way. It's the great equalizer that can bring anyone to their knees. But, it also can show how strong a person is, and how great the community around them can rally when called upon...

Vannatta seat stays unfilled (05/09/12)
Bedford County Board of Commissioners failed Tuesday night to fill recently retired commissioner Bobby Vannatta's request that his son-in-law fill his vacant District 2 commission seat. Vannatta, who retired from the commission last month after 19 years of service due to illness, had recommended Ralph Edwards fill his seat until the countywide general election is held in August...

Text of Vannatta proclamation (05/09/12)
A PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING THE EXEMPLARY SERVICE OF COMMISSIONER BOBBY VANNATTA, SECOND DISTRICT OF BEDFORD COUNTY, TENNESSEE, TO THE CITIZENS OF BEDFORD COUNTY, TENNESSEE 2011-2012 Be it proclaimed by the Board of Commissioners of Bedford County, Tennessee, that:...

Gregory joins race for commission seat (05/03/12)
Michael Gregory has announced his candidacy for a District 2 seat on Bedford County Board of Commissioners in the Aug. 2 general election. Gregory is a lifelong resident of Bedford County and a graduate of Cascade High School. He attended Middle Tennessee State University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in animal science. ...

Sobriety checkpoints planned (05/03/12)
Sobriety roadside safety checkpoints are planned in three locations over the next two weeks, according to the Bedford County Sheriff's Department. One is planned during the week of May 6 at Huffman Road and Red Hill Road in Normandy (the intersection east of the town toward Normandy Lake). During the week of May 15 checkpoints are planned at the intersections of State Route 437 (the Shelbyville bypass) at Railroad Road and U.S. 41A South at Mullins Mill Road...

County's response to lawsuit requested (05/01/12)
Attorneys representing four deputies suing over unpaid overtime claim that Bedford County has not responded to a number of discovery requests. Sheriff Randall Boyce and the county were sued last August by David Sakich, Kevin Holton, Scott Jones, Todd Hammond "and others similarly situated" under the Fair Labor Standards Act, claiming they were denied overtime and straight time compensation and were worked "off the clock," also alleging they were retaliated against for exposing the issue...

E-911 sues for return of $76,000 (04/26/12)
The Bedford County Emergency Communication District filed a federal lawsuit against BellSouth (now known as AT&T) last week, demanding the recovery of $76,000 in service charges. The suit claims the phone company has billed the ECD "far in excess" of the number of phone lines for which BellSouth reported and remitted 911 charges...

Democrats hear encouragement (04/25/12)
Bedford County Democrats heard a message of encouragement Tuesday night, even in a time when Republicans have dominated statewide and federal races across Tennessee. "I do think there's a lot of positives to the Democratic Party right now, and there's a lot we can be proud of," said local party member Mark Farrar, who emceed the party's annual banquet Tuesday night at the American Legion center on Kingree Road...

Schools decision draws criticism (04/25/12)
Two members of Bedford County Board of Education criticized School Superintendent Ray Butrum and school board chairman Barry Cooper on Thursday night for committing to an educational software package prior to final approval by the board. The board was asked on Thursday night to approve a three-year agreement with Curriculum Advantage Inc. ...

Investigators take aim at drug dealers (04/25/12)
Investigators aren't identifying the source of 15 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $18,000 yet -- saying arrests are anticipated -- but they have a message for drug dealers. "If you're dealing drugs in Bedford County we're gonna get you," Sheriff Randall Boyce said...

Com Center interim chief to continue (04/19/12)
Jim Miller will continue as interim director of Bedford County Communications Center for the time being, according to action by Bedford County Emergency Communications District (E-911) board on Wednesday night, and the center will contract with County Finance Director Robert Daniel to handle its purchasing and other finances. The county had already been doing payroll for com center employees...

County closer to ISWA membership (04/17/12)
Another step has been taken in getting Bedford County into the Interlocal Solid Waste Authority, but it will be a few more months until the deal is final. Highway Superintendent Stanley Smotherman told the county's solid waste authority that the ISWA met in Fayetteville Wednesday night and that "loose ends" were beginning to be dealt with in the process of getting Bedford and Moore counties into the organization...

Former area resident murdered (04/10/12)
A former Bedford County resident was found dead at her Lewisburg home Sunday, and her husband has been charged with murder. Kay Redd Colvett, 56, grew up in the Wartrace area and attended Cascade High School. Kenneth Colvett, 56, is charged with one count of criminal homicide...

Com Center draws close look (04/05/12)
Bedford County Emergency Communications District (E-911) board voted Wednesday night to name administrative assistant Jim Miller as interim director of Bedford County Communications Center, and also to secure the center's financial records during the transition period...

New approach to nepotism (04/04/12)
Bedford County School System's policy on nepotism is getting a complete rewrite, according to discussion at a Board of Education study session on Tuesday night of last week The former policy was two paragraphs long and only addressed the initial hire of the most immediate family members of sitting members of the school board...

Suspect, sheriff debate legality of home search (04/03/12)
A man recently arrested on drug charges has filed a federal lawsuit against the county mayor, sheriff and officers claiming his home was searched without a warrant and that he was assaulted. But an arrest report by a detective involved in the litigation tells a much different story than the plaintiff does once several details are added to the tale...

Community Outreach reaches out from new home (04/01/12)
Community Outreach Partnership of Bedford County has moved and is now occupying space on Depot Street in the former Clifford's Furniture building. They had been on Madison Street since opening two years ago. The two-year-old faith-based non-profit represents a group of local churches of varying denominations who work together to assist families in need. ...

E-911 director resigns (03/29/12)
Bedford County Communications Center director Cathey Mathis has announced her resignation and that she has terminated her daughter, com center employee Lisa Cook. According to Bedford County Emergency Communications District (E-911) board chair Mark Thomas, Mathis announced the resignation and termination by way of e-mail...

Gift cards violated IRS policy (03/22/12)
Bedford County Emergency Communications District (E-911) board will self-report to the Internal Revenue Service that on two or three occasions, it used pre-paid gift cards to award employee bonuses or service awards, without deducting any tax payments or reporting that income...

Shelbyville man hurt in Coffee Co. accident (03/16/12)
A Shelbyville man was injured in a three-vehicle crash Wednesday morning in Coffee County that killed the driver of the vehicle in which he was riding. Marcus Brawdy, 24, of Shelbyville, was a passenger in a truck driven by victim Theodore Visnicky, 41, of Hillsboro...

Suspect in woman's death identified (03/15/12)
A "person of interest" has been identified in the murder of a Shelbyville woman in west Tennessee. A news release from the Madison County Sheriff's Office stated that an unnamed person has been identified through DNA analysis to be connected with the killing of Nora Ann Crawley, 39, of Shelbyville, according to the Jackson Sun newspaper...

TWHNC gets $1.5K county donation (03/14/12)
Bedford County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday night to give $1,500 to the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration for promoting an upcoming quarter horse show, even though a letter from the Celebration to the City of Shelbyville indicates that the money is no longer needed...

Courtroom to classroom (03/06/12)
District Attorney Chuck Crawford, the top prosecutor in Bedford, Marshall, Lincoln and Moore counties' criminal courts, has been hired by the Fayetteville City School System to teach American history and government. Dr. Janine Wilson, director of the city school system, announced to the Board of Education on Monday night that Crawford, who's also served as Lincoln County's session and juvenile court judge, would be teaching at the city's new high school next fall...

Synthetic drugs' impact discussed (02/26/12)
Drug investigators and Shelbyville citizens expressed frustration -- and hope -- while discussing the wave of synthetic drugs which has struck Middle Tennessee within the past two years at a Thursday meeting. "It's amazing to me that they can track one cow with mad cow disease but can't track down the source of these drugs," Shelbyville mayor Wallace Cartwright said in a question-and-answer session following Deputy Steven Daugherty's presentation to the Bedford Against Drugs Community Coalition...

Suspect comes 'home' to confess murder (02/23/12)
A suspect in a White County murder said he felt more comfortable surrendering to his former Bedford County neighbors -- so he drove to Shelbyville and turned himself in early today. Sheriff Randall Boyce said the suspect's name is Jim Lackey. The suspect was met upon arrival by an acquaintance, Deputy Steven Daugherty, Sheriff Randall Boyce said. By mid-morning Lackey was talking to TBI officers, Sheriff Randall Boyce said...

Moore commissioner bound to grand jury (02/22/12)
A Moore County commissioner accused of selling drugs near a Bedford County school has been bound over to the next session of the grand jury, also resigning his position Monday night. William Karl Pyrdom Sr., 44, waived his right to a preliminary hearing on Feb. 10. His case will be presented to the Bedford County grand jury on March 19...

School board chair says it's time to go (02/17/12)
Bedford County Board of Education Chairman Barry Cooper announced at the end of Thursday night's meeting that he will not seek re-election to his 5th District seat during this year's election cycle. Cooper will continue to serve until a new school board member is elected to his seat in August, and then in September the board will need to elect a new chairman. Five of the nine school board seats are up for election this year...

Most of E-911 board skips regular meet (02/16/12)
Bedford County Emergency Communications District (E-911) board, which has been involved in a dispute over personnel issues, failed to hold its regular meeting Wednesday night, with six of the nine board members absent. Five of the six absent members called Bedford County Communications Center director Cathey Mathis earlier in the day to say they would not be attending, and someone -- it's not clear who -- posted a notice on the door of the meeting room saying that the meeting had been cancelled...

Trial date set in OT lawsuit (02/16/12)
A trial date in a lawsuit against the sheriff and county over unpaid overtime has been set for November. On Tuesday, members of the Bedford County Commission revised the minutes of their January meeting to reflect that a suit filed by four detectives against Sheriff Randall Boyce and the county had not been settled...

Groovin' and givin' at Habitat Ball (02/14/12)
More than 230 people gathered Saturday night for a celebratory evening in support of a good cause. The 14th annual Habitat for Humanity Ball was held Feb. 11 at the Blue Ribbon Circle. Each year, proceeds from the benefit are used to build one local Habitat home...

E911 board committee humbled (02/14/12)
Members of the Bedford County Emergency Communications District (E-911) personnel committee heard an earful of complaints Monday over an unsuccessful attempt to have a communications center dispatcher fired without going before the full board. The board does not have the power to directly hire or fire personnel...

Pyrdom drug case remains on hold (02/08/12)
It's not clear when a Moore County commissioner accused of selling drugs near a Bedford County school will have his case heard. William Karl Pyrdom Sr., 44, had been scheduled to make a fifth appearance in General Sessions Court on Jan. 31 for charges of sale of a schedule II drug...

Leadership group redoes Chamber (01/19/12)
It's amazing what a difference a paint job and a new floor can make with a room. But the public seemed pleased with the results of the hard work done by the 2012 class of Leadership Bedford in the remodeling of the Chamber of Commerce meeting room and lobby...

New House for Bedford (01/17/12)
State lawmakers on Friday approved redistricting plans for congressional and state legislative districts, and Gov. Bill Haslam is expected to sign the proposal. The biggest change for Bedford County is that the county moves from the 6th Congressional District, currently represented by Rep. Diane Black (R-Gallatin), to the 4th, currently represented by Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-South Pittsburg)...

Hord case set; sheriff files denial to claims (01/12/12)
While one lawsuit against the sheriff and county has been settled, a trial date has been set for next year in the litigation filed by the department's former child abuse investigator. Meanwhile, the county filed documents Wednesday denying many of the allegations made against the sheriff...

Deputies to be paid OT (01/11/12)
Bedford County Board of Commissioners, after a closed attorney-client meeting, voted Tuesday night to settle overtime lawsuits brought against the county by sheriff's department employees, and to pay back wages owed to sheriff's department dispatchers...

CodeRED system to be tested Friday (01/11/12)
Expect a call Friday afternoon. Bedford County 911 Communications Center will use the CodeRED Emergency Notification System on Friday to call more than 15,000 land-line telephones in Bedford County. The calls, which will be made during the afternoon on Friday, are meant as a test of the CodeRED system, but will also serve to promote the system to local residents, whom officials say can benefit by registering themselves at the CodeRED website. ...

Drug fight tops DAs' concerns (12/28/11)
Tennessee's district attorneys say that synthetic and prescription drug abuse will be the biggest challenges they face going into the new year. District Attorney General Charles Crawford and 30 others recently met for the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference to identify what they termed "serious areas of concern" which must be addressed at the state level in 2012...

Judge to hear 2 suits vs.county (12/16/11)
A federal magistrate has determined that two suits filed against the sheriff and county are related and will not need to be assigned to a different judge. U.S. Magistrate William B. Mitchell Carter issued an order this week stating that litigation filed in August by four detectives and the lawsuit by the county's former child abuse investigator, Rebecca Hord, "is related" and that there is no need for reassignment since both cases are currently assigned to the same district judge, Harry S. ...

Sheriff's staff will receive holiday pay (12/14/11)
Bedford County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday night to approve a proposal to give holiday pay to sheriff's department and juvenile detention center employees for the remainder of this fiscal year, but hopes in the next fiscal year to review and develop a standardized county-wide policy...

Detective sues over dismissal (12/09/11)
The county's former child abuse investigator has filed a federal lawsuit against Sheriff Randall Boyce and Bedford County, claiming she was fired for supporting other officers suing over unpaid overtime, and also for her race and gender. Rebecca Hord filed a complaint Wednesday in U.S. District Court under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Tennessee Human Rights Act (THRA) for failure to pay overtime, racial and gender discrimination, as well as retaliatory discharge...

'Dangerous overcrowding' at county courthouse (12/02/11)
"Dangerous overcrowding" occurred in Bedford County General Sessions Court Wednesday, and Shelbyville's fire marshal is requesting a meeting with county officials to develop a plan to reduce the risk to the public. In a letter to Circuit Court Clerk Thomas Smith, which also went to the county mayor, sheriff, court officers, judges and magistrates, Assistant Fire Chief Brian Nicholson stated that he responded to a citizen's complaint about the overcrowding...

Microchips: A pet's best friend (12/02/11)
Bedford County Animal Control and the Middle Tennessee Spay and Neuter Clinic are teaming up in hopes to give your pet the ultimate Christmas present -- a sure way back hope in the event they stray too far. "Identification Station," as they're calling it, will be held Saturday, Dec. 17. From noon until 2 p.m. MTSNC will offer microchips for $25 and from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. BCAC will have identification tags for your pets for $3...

Moore commissioner's drug case continued (12/01/11)
A Moore County commissioner who is accused of selling drugs near a school has had his case continued until next year. William Karl Pyrdom Sr., 44, had a continuance set for Jan. 31 after making his fourth appearance in General Sessions Court on Tuesday. He is charged with sale of a schedule II drug and is free on $10,000 bond...

Code Red ready to go if disaster strikes Bedford Co. (11/30/11)
A new notification system gives local emergency departments a variety of new options for notifying the public in case of a disaster, and members of the public can opt in to receive notices related to severe weather. Bedford County Emergency Communications District (E-911) has signed up for the Code Red program, which gives departments options for making automated calls or sending cell phone text messages, according to Bedford County Communications Center director Cathey Mathis...

Arsenic...for laughs (11/30/11)
The comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace," by Joseph Kesselring, will be presented by the Bedford Players as a dinner theater Friday, Saturday, and Dec. 9 and 10 at the Fly Arts Center on South Main Street. Dinner is at 6 p.m. with the play beginning at 7. Many people are familiar with the play from the movie adaptation, which starred Cary Grant...

County to sell nursing home (11/09/11)
Bedford County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday night to sell the county-owned nursing home on Union Street, along with the vacant adjoining building that once housed Bedford County Medical Center, to Care Centers Management Consulting, the Johnson City-based firm that currently leases and operates the nursing home...

Child Safety Fun Fair set for Saturday (10/27/11)
United Way of Bedford County will hold its annual Child Safety Fun Fair Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at H.V. Griffin Park. The free event offers fun and educational activities for the kids, but also offers the chance for parents to have their children fingerprinted by a trained law enforcement officer...

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