Financial Markets

Fire Academy to hold graduation Friday (05/05/08)
Recruits from Shelbyville Fire Department will be standing tall Friday as they officially complete their training at the Tennessee Fire Service and Codes Enforcement Academy on Unionville-Deason Road. State Fire Marshal and Commerce and Insurance Commissioner Leslie A. Newman will deliver the commencement address to the recruit firefighter class at the Academy at 9 a.m....

County wants austerity budgets (04/24/08)
Bedford County Financial Management Committee is asking each county agency to submit two budgets for the 2008-09 fiscal year -- one based on what the agency's management thinks it needs, and another based on a 5 percent reduction from what the agency received in 2007-08...

Large tree must go, city says (04/23/08)
Concern about the fate of a tree on East Depot Street led to a small public hearing Tuesday between some downtown business people and city officials. Jennifer Templeton of Templeton Insurance started a petition to save the large tree in front of the business that is slated to be replaced by a pair of single stem crepe myrtles...

Shelbyville bank robbed; suspect escapes (04/23/08)
The thief who robbed First Community Bank's Madison Street branch at mid-afternoon today (Tuesday) may have gotten away red-handed -- literally. A red dye bomb within a money bag taken in the robbery exploded less than 100 yards away behind the bank, police said...

Tyson defends hiring practices, works with refugees (03/28/08)
Tyson Foods officials have been working with the imam of Shelbyville's Islamic mosque to bridge the cultural gap that exists between the Somali community and the rest of the public. Representatives of the company also dismissed lingering charges of Tyson hiring illegal immigrants as "myths and misconceptions."...

Banker, civic leader McGrew remembered (03/24/08)
Sydney C. "Bud" McGrew, 75, is being mourned as a leader in the financial community but also the community at large. McGrew died Sunday at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center. "Bedford County is going to sadly miss Bud," said County Mayor Eugene Ray this morning. "He has contributed a great deal to our community."...

Cost control emphasized to county officials (03/21/08)
Cost control and record-keeping were stressed during a meeting Thursday of the county's department heads. The quarterly luncheon meeting was held Thursday at the Bedford County Emergency Management Agency building on Railroad Avenue. It included the presentation of bonus checks to the staff of Bedford County Zoning Office for their cost-saving measures...

Online scam hits two different ways (03/19/08)
Steve Mallard of Tennessee Technology Center at Shelbyville reports that two different acquaintances of his have been touched in different ways by the same type of online scam. The scam, which has been popular for many months, involves classified ads placed in newspapers offering puppies -- often Yorkies. This isn't a case of someone local offering puppies for sale or to be given away. Those ads -- like the one placed recently by T-G staff writer Sadie Fowler -- are usually legitimate...