Stories from Tuesday, August 9, 2005

Mrs. Anner Vera Leathers Lamb, 75, of Shelbyville died Monday at Skyline Medical Center in Nashville. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with Ronnie Leathers and Lawson Howard officiating. Burial will follow at Smotherman Cemetery.

Confusion has arisen over the invitation-only premiere of "Our Very Own" Saturday night and a public, pre-screening reception scheduled earlier in the afternoon. "The reception Our Town is hosting on Saturday evening is not by invitation only," Betty Harrison, director of the sponsoring organization, said Monday. "It is for anyone in Shelbyville who wants to meet the people from Hollywood, including Cameron Watson and several actors and actresses from the movie."...

They are all gone. Folks who lined up for tickets to the free Sunday screenings of "Our Very Own" scooped them up in just 90 minutes Saturday. With 364 seats in the Capri Theater and four screenings, that's 1,456 lucky moviegoers who will see the film that was shot in Shelbyville last summer...

Several antique guns were taken within the past two weeks from a home near Normandy. An Ithaca .12 gauge double barrel shotgun, approximately 100 years old, a 75-year-old Ivan Johnson Champion .410 single shot shotgun, a 50-year-old Winchester .22 caliber pump rifle and Winchester 30-30 Centennial rifle were gone when Joe B. Barton, Red Hill Road, returned Sunday...

The Shelbyville Planning Commission will consider rescinding their approval of a final plat for a subdivision that brought protesting residents out in force last week. The commission will hold a special meeting Tuesday, Aug. 16 at 6 p.m. at the Shelbyville City Hall annex...

A couple of ideas surfaced during last weekend's Wartrace Horse Show on what to do about the ongoing dispute over enforcement of the Horse Protection Act. "The horse industry needs to have vets to check behind the VMOs," Show Manager Roy Ferguson said of Veterinary Medical Officers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

When the typical football fan has concerns about their favorite team's personnel, their attention gravitates towards the quarterback position and rightly so as it is the most important spot on the gridiron. Most Cascade faithful are stressing this preseason about their signal-caller...

The Wartrace Horse Show may be lucky to break even this year, officials now say. Show Manager Roy Ferguson says he was too optimistic about the financial impact of owners' and trainers' withdrawal of their horses from the show, apparently because federal horse inspectors were present...

Tennessee strapped on the helmets and pulled up the shorts for another practice session at Lindsey Nelson Stadium on Monday afternoon. It was the fourth of a NCAA mandated five-day acclimation period whereby players are not allowed to suit up on full pads...