Stories from Saturday, October 22, 2005

Cascade coach Kenny Parker spent the week leading to Friday's home contest with Clarksville Academy challenging his seniors to step up their game in hopes of a bowl invitation. The fourth-year Champions heeded the call, taking control of the game from the opening kickoff and scoring early and often in a 35-0 victory on Senior Night...

A Shelbyville man was killed Saturday afternoon when the motorcycle he was riding went out of control on a long, sweeping curve near Wartrace. Jeremy Pope, 24, of Cloverdale Road was identified as the victim by State Trooper Patrick Turner. Pope was riding toward Wartrace on Wartrace-Bell Buckle Road about 2:15-2:20 p.m. when the accident occurred near Tenpenny Hill just past Horse Mountain Road intersection north of the town....

NASHVILLE -- Shelbyville Central's Golden Eagles entered the Maplewood game looking for their first win of the season, but the host Panthers had a little something to say about that in a 27-0 Region 5-4A victory Friday night. The Eagles (0-9, 0-5) will have one last chance to avoid a winless season when they host Lawrence County in a region matchup next Friday at Eagle Stadium...

Graveside services for Beverly Pelonero, 69, of Chapel Hill, who died Friday in Columbia after an extended illness, will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Swanson Cemetery in Chapel Hill. The Rev. Glenn Forsee will officiate. Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill is in charge of arrangements...

A story in Thursday's T-G about a serious accident Wednesday on Railroad Road referred to "initial uncertainty" by dispatchers as to whether its location was inside or outside Shelbyville. Bedford County Communications Center personnel were told specifically, but incorrectly, by a caller to 9-1-1 that the accident was on Railroad Avenue, director Cathey Mathis said Friday...

The small community of Bell Buckle will have to find a way to come up with a half a million dollars or more to pay for a state mandated sewer system upgrade after the town was denied a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). Mayor Linda Key was informed earlier this month by Philip Trauernicht, director of Tennessee's Department of Economic and Community Development, that Bell Buckle's project "did not rank high enough to be funded."...

The cool breeze that blew in late last week caused concern for a Bedford County farmer even though it promised rain. Having rolled out the bright green mesh used to keep fescue together at harvest time, Tyler Farrar faced frustration as the wind started to rearrange the mesh...

Just believing in something and having seen it always seemed to be two different things because seeing is believing. Then came word that the Capri Theater here is haunted and so is the Oldham Theater in Winchester, both co-owned by a city manager and a former lawman who worked here and other police jobs...