Stories from Wednesday, July 20, 2005

A Marshall County man was killed instantly in a head-on crash just east of "Dead Man's Curve" on State Highway 64 west of Shelbyville this morning. Will Martin, 21, swerved into the path of a large soft drink truck about 6:30 a.m., State Trooper Patrick Turner said. James Michael Reed, 35, of Huntland was driving the truck for Five-Star Food Service of Tullahoma.

Wartrace passed its 2005-06 budget, accepted bids for the long awaited Fairfield Water Project and welcomed a new police chief during Monday's meeting. The tax rate will remain the same, $1 per $100 of assessed property value, and the town's utility rates will also be unchanged. The town has $3,544,423.23 budgeted as total income and expenditures. Of that amount, $2,979,944 is from Wartrace's waterworks and sewer services...

County attorney John T. Bobo has recommended that Bedford County Nursing Home have a five-member board which would meet quarterly instead of monthly, according to discussion at Tuesday's meeting of Bedford County Board of Commissioners' rules and legislative committee...

Since 1972, the athletes of the hardcourts have had a tennis tournament here in Shelbyville in which to flex their muscles thanks to the Shelbyville Tennis Association. The 2005 version of the Shelbyville City Open has been widely praised thus far and local athletes are enjoying the action...