Stories from Friday, March 25, 2005

Funeral services for Aaron F. Buttner, 80, of Wartrace, who died this morning at Bedford County Nursing Home after an extended illness, will be 11 a.m. Monday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Jack Carney officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.

Townsend W.K. Smith of Thomasville, Ga., formerly of Shelbyville, died Saturday at Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Bright Temple Church of God in Christ with Herbert L. Stewart officiating. Burial will follow at Holden Cemetery...

MANCHESTER -- The Shelbyville Golden Eagle soccer team scored the week's second District 8-AAA shutout win, 4-0 over Coffee County Thursday night. Andrew Gordon scored a pair of goals while Ranferi Palacios netted the other two. The Eagles held a 1-0 advantage at intermission...

Shelbyville Central's trap shooting team posted a combined score of 443 to claim the top spot in a meet earlier this month at the Big Springs Clay Target Sports in Murfreesboro. Bobby Hallum was the Class D medalist and posted the top score -- 95-- in the event...

A third suspect was charged Thursday in connection with the robbery of three men at a Lipscomb Street home early that morning. James Oscar Mason, 45, Deery Street, is accused of joining William Anthony Hayworth, 29, and Charles Willis Childress, 25, both of a Wheeler Street address, in the home invasion shortly after 4 a.m., Shelbyville police say.

Bedford County Board of Education approved minor change orders to the Harris Middle School project during a special called meeting on Thursday. School Superintendent Mike Bone said that, given the size of the project, the changes are routine, and it is "really quite unusual" for a project of this size to have so few change orders. ...

In 1953 Navy medical corpsman Bo Melson was serving his country at a U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego, Calif., when he was diagnosed with essential hypertension. "Doctors at the hospital told me high blood pressure was normal for me," remembers Melson.

An unscientific poll on the new Times-Gazette web site indicates that a majority of participants would like to see Bedford County Medical Center sold to a not-for-profit organization. After that, voters were almost-evenly divided between selling the hospital to a for-profit chain and selling it to local investors and physicians...

Harris Abernathy was tough in goal yet again for Webb with 18 saves but he and the Feet fell 11-10 to Father Ryan on Thursday in Nashville. "We just didn't play well the whole game," Webb coach Jon Bloom said. "We had a lot of chances in the first half and their goalie just came up huge."...

Cascade softball lost for the first time this season as starting pitcher Nicole Curtis and Forrest blanked the Lady Champions 3-0 Thursday. Cascade (3-1, 3-1 in District 11-A) was held to two hits by Curtis. Lady Champion Katie Jackson toed the rubber all seven frames, striking out six while allowing eight hits and one walk...

Cascade's soccer squad broke into the win column with a 3-1 victory over Loretto in Wartrace on Thursday afternoon. "It's a very good win after coming off of a tough region loss (to Giles County)," Cascade coach Jeremy Austin said. "It's a great win for the kids. They were down last week...

Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Myrtle Sandlin King, 92, of Midland will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Woodfin Memorial Chapel in Murfreesboro with the Revs. Monty Kapavik and Vance King officiating. Burial will follow at Smotherman Cemetery in Midland. Mrs. King died Thursday at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro...