Stories from Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Bids will be taken in two weeks to replace a couple of bridges in Bedford County, paving work is to begin and a member of the county road board is stepping down. The bridges are on Amos Gammill Road in Flat Creek and Bedford Lake Road near Normandy. Both concrete bridges are crumbling, according to highway supervisor Stanley Smotherman...

State championships are hard to come by, but that's not the case for Shelbyville's 15-Year-Old Babe Ruth All-Stars who have now won four state titles, including two back-to-back. Shelbyville downed Crockett County 5-2 Monday night to claim their second straight Babe Ruth State Championship...

The Shelbyville Sharks swimmers finished second out of nine teams at the RACE League Championship Saturday on Sewanee. Sewanee scored 2,022 points to Shelbyville's 1,659. Athens, Ala., scored 1,534 for third place, followed by Lawrenceburg, McMinnville, Winchester, Lewisburg, Fayetteville, and Manchester...

Two participants were double winners in Monday night's Shelbyville City Open tennis tournament play at H.V. Griffin Park. Becky Carkuff was a winner in the Women's C Singles event and teamed with Sarah Dickerson for a Women's B Doubles win. Jonathan Brown took victories in the Men's A Singles and in the Men's B Doubles division with Gerald Stafford...

Elaborate costumes for ponies and riders were displayed after midnight this morning at Calsonic Arena where Ponies of America Club officials had random blood testing of an undetermined number of ponies. "This is an international show and this to keep an even playing field," explained Dr. John Tabor, a veterinarian who works at Dr. Robert West's clinic near Bell Buckle. "We go at random. There are more than 100 classes of ponies competing."...

Everyone needs to mark Saturday, Aug. 13, on their calendars. That's when Hollywood will descend on Shelbyville for an event many have been waiting for. "Our Very Own," a film shot here last year, will have its Tennessee premiere at the Capri Theater on that date. Additional screenings will be held Sunday, Aug. 14...

The public defender's office has asked Circuit Court here to let the publicly-paid defense attorneys withdraw from two murder cases because of a conflict of interest, although it's not known that the conflict is between these cases. The conflict was revealed through confidential attorney-client communications, according to records in the two murder cases -- one of which has been the subject of the state prosecutor's announcement that he might seek the death penalty...

Nearly $5,000 of sheet metal worker Larry York's work tools were taken from his truck outside Breaux Sheet Metal Services, located at his Moulder Road home, between 11 p.m.-midnight Wednesday. York told Sgt. Billy Prince he heard a noise like "metal clanking together," looked out and noticed the truck was gone. The truck was found by York a few minutes later on nearby Lower Halls Mill Road with the tools and battery missing...

Robert Henry "Buck" Arnold, 69, of Shelbyville died Thursday at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Nashville after an extended illness. A private memorial service was held. He was cremated. Feldhaus Memorial Chapel was in charge of arrangements...