Stories from Monday, June 20, 2005

Reserve third baseman Shaq Thompson sent everybody home early on Sunday night with a three-run walk-off home run for Shelbyville Blue's 12-year-old all-star team in their 12-1 victory over Moore County at H.V. Griffin Park. Thompson's fourth-inning blast was not the first home run of the frame. Colton Gunn also came off the bench to clear the fences in left-center field...

The Shelbyville Public Housing Authority has plans to spend more than $702,000 annually during five years for the maintenance and improvement of the units which are home to nearly 760 people. Suggestions on how that $3.51 million ought to be spent are to be received by the housing authority's board of directors during their monthly meeting at noon on Tuesday next week in the banquet room of Richard's Cafeteria on Lane Parkway...

With the big boom of a bass drum and the snappy rap-tap of the snares, the Nashville Pathfinders Drum Corp and dozens of advocates for right choices and good citizenship marched through public housing neighborhoods on Saturday to drum up members for a new club being formed here...

Grooming the Duck is a multi-county event set for Saturday with volunteers from Bedford, Coffee, Hickman, Maury and Marshall counties joining in an environmental effort to pick up litter and debris along one of this area's most important resources, Duck River...

Among the countries of the world, the United States has the most species of mammals and among the richest flora of any temperate country. It leads the rest of the world in diversity of salamanders, crayfishes, freshwater turtles, and freshwater mollusks, and the southeast is the global epicenter of this aquatic diversity...

Records were set all over Bell Buckle on Saturday morning as hundreds of runners and fans showed up for the 10th Annual RC Cola-Moon Pie 10 Mile Race. John Welsh set a course record by almost two minutes and took first place with a time of 52:35, which is a 5:16 per mile pace...