Civil Engineering

Newspaper brings 1862 back to life (01/03/12)
Where are the rebels in Tennessee and what are they doing? If you read the front page of the Dec. 7, 1862 edition of the New York Herald during the Civil War, you would have learned that thousands of Confederate troops were massing south of a small town called Shelbyville...

Retirement is new start for firefighter (08/25/11)
ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, Tenn. -- In 1961, Charlie Armstrong, along with his elementary school classmates, visited the Shelbyville Fire Department. That experience left a distinct impression on Armstrong, an AEDC Fire Department firefighter crew chief who is retiring from Arnold after nearly 38 years in the profession...

Civil War comes alive (02/02/11)
The Civil War, 150 years later, still raises strong opinions among Americans of various regions and races. How should it be remembered? For what cause were the individual soldiers on each side truly fighting? A Murfreesboro physician who helped found the U.S. Colored Troops Living History Association believes that it's important to remember history, and he doesn't mind doing it by donning a period uniform and participating in re-enactments...

Farrar files civil rights suit vs. city (01/27/11)
A promised federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed against Shelbyville Police Department, two officers and the mayor over an arrest that caused a man to serve over a year in jail for a crime he claims he did not commit. James Edward "Blue" Farrar Jr. alleges that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated when officers arrested him in April 2009 for public intoxication. Farrar was sentenced to serve 14 months for violating his probation...

City considers historic markers as Civil War's 150th approaches (12/03/10)
Shelbyville's city council will consider applying for a grant next week to place historic markers in town for the upcoming 150th anniversary of the Civil War. City manager Michael Dill told the council that there is going to be a lot of tourism in Tennessee over the next several years due to the sesquicentennial of the conflict, and Shelbyville needs to participate...

TUB connection could help pressure in Wartrace, Bell Buckle (04/29/08)
A frequent complaint heard from water customers living in the Wartrace and Bell Buckle area is the lack of pressure in the system. But if Wartrace decides to hook up to the city of Tullahoma's water system, that problem could become a thing of the past...

New EMS hall rises near new hospital (04/28/08)
Walls have risen at the new Bedford County Emergency Medical Services station in Airport Industrial Park. The station, built on land donated by Wal-Mart Distribution Center, will become the new headquarters and administrative offices of BCEMS, a short distance away from the new Heritage Medical Center which opens this summer. BCEMS's existing headquarters on Union Street will remain open as an ambulance station...

$21 million is possible cost of Normandy project (04/26/08)
With one eye on the current drought and the other eye on future flooding, the Tennessee Duck River Development Agency will soon be requesting feasibility studies for solutions -- one of which could be raising the pool level at Normandy Dam 5 feet -- which would mean construction work to raise the actual dam and replace the spillway gates...

Copper taken from underneath home (04/24/08)
An estimated $2,500 worth of copper wiring was stolen between April 16 and Monday from a home under construction in Valley View Estates subdivision on Red Hill Road in Normandy. Builder John Morton told the Bedford County Sheriff's Department the wiring was taken from underneath the home...

Seminar in Murfreesboro focuses on Somalis (03/24/08)
MURFREESBORO -- "There will always be change." Those were the words of Salaad Nur, a Somali immigrant who spoke Thursday evening at Middle Tennessee State University to a group of students about the refugees who have moved to this state after fleeing their war torn country...

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