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Music, maestro, please! (05/16/12)
The Nashville Symphony made its annual visit to Shelbyville on Tuesday night, accompanied by the Shelbyville Central High School Wind Symphony. "Symphony At The Celebration" was the orchestra's first public performance since its well-reviewed return to Carnegie Hall on Saturday night...

Tales of loss lead annual top story list (01/01/12)
Two stories that touched the hearts of local readers top this year's list of the top 10 local stories as determined by a poll of the Times-Gazette staff. The top story of the year was the plight of the three people collectively known as The Shelbyville Missing: Shelley Mook, Bobby Smelcer and Antonio Taylor. That story was followed by the story of a young sixth grader whose illness brought the community together and whose death broke its heart...

30 years of caring: SCHS canned food drive continues (12/25/11)
When local educator Bill Pietkiewicz took a group of Shelbyvile Central High School students to a student council workshop in 1981, all he really hoped for was the students returning home feeling inspired. The motivational speech they heard that day, given by well-known speaker Mark Scharenbroich, planted a seed in the students' minds to start a canned food drive. That first year, 1,000 cans were collected...

Central students prove dreams 'can' come true (12/06/11)
Students at Shelbyville Central High School proved on Friday that dreams 'can' come true -- displaying 28,166 canned food items in a Disney-themed Great Canned Food Drive. Drawings and posters of Disney characters were hung throughout the school during November to remind students to bring in canned and non-perishable items to help those in need during the holiday season...

Students donate more than 1,200 shoes (10/11/11)
During homecoming week the Shelbyville Central High School student council coordinated a successful Soles4Souls shoe drive, collecting 1,258 pairs of new shoes. Non-profit organization Soles4Souls was born from the sofa of founder Wayne Elsey while he watched the devastation of the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. The image of "a single shoe, stranded on a decimated beach," sparked the seed of the idea...

Haven of help: St Jude Children's Hospital gets help from SCHS (01/09/11)
Imagine if your child was diagnosed with cancer. Where should we go for treatment? How long will the cancer last? Will it be fatal? How are we going to pay for everything? These are just a few questions that would weigh down your mind. At St. Jude Children's Hospital you could cross out the last question. No family is ever turned away because they are unable to pay for their child's treatments...

Rock bands, real and imagined, to play Friday in fundraiser for Central High's boys soccer squad (03/09/10)
Rock fans young and old will be entertained Friday night as Shelbyville Central High's Golden Eagle soccer team sponsors Eaglepalooza 2010, a spin-off of the video game "Rock Band." Eaglepalooza 2010 begins at 6:00 at Shelbyville Central High School's theater with the doors opening at 5. Proceeds will go to the Golden Eagle boys soccer program...

Local helpers celebrate a granted wish (10/20/09)
When folks at Atmos Energy heard about Payton Templeton-White, 3, they knew she was special. So special, they wanted to make her dream of going to Disney World a reality through the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee. What the people at Atmos didn't know at the time was they'd have a chance to celebrate with the special young lady again, months after her wish was granted...

Drug dogs find little of substance at Central (09/09/09)
With the keen noses of five K-9 officers at work, Shelbyville and Bedford County authorities, along with help from Rutherford County and the city of La Vergne, conducted a drug sweep of Shelbyville Central High School Tuesday morning. "We're going to run several dogs through here and see if we can't find any drugs this morning," Bedford County Sheriff Randall Boyce said...

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