Stories from Thursday, October 27, 2005

Mrs. Helen Oween Hix Smith, 91, of Shelbyville, died Wed., Oct. 26, at Bedford County Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Jimmy Gray and the Rev. Larry Roberts officiating. Burial will be at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens...

Even though their postseason destines appear very different, both Cascade and Jo Byrns have a lot on the line in the Region 5-1A and regular season finale in Cedar Hill on Friday night. The Champs (4-5, 3-3 in 5-1A) hope to finish with a .500 record and earn a trip to a bowl game should McEwen defeat Clarksville Academy and claim the fourth and final spot in the region for the state playoffs...

About 20 children, their mothers, aunts and grandmothers enjoyed story time at the Argie cooper public library where the children's librarian read books out loud and later told of some progress toward developing the Imagination Library inspired by Dolly Parton...

The Tennessee Small Business Development Center (TSBDC) will be holding meetings next month to help local Hispanic business people, both with existing businesses and for those wanting to start one. Two meetings are to be held: one for start up businesses on Tuesday, Nov. 8, and on Nov. 9 for existing businesses at noon until 2 p.m. at the Shelbyville Recreation Center. The meetings will be open to all, not just Hispanics wanting assistance...

The vacancy rate has virtually doubled at homes owned by the Shelbyville Public Housing Authority, according to reports and discussion at the authority's monthly board meeting this week. "Six percent is as high as I've seen," said Henry Feldhaus, one of the five members of the authority here...

Two men forced their way into a Boardwalk Way home at gunpoint and left with several thousand dollars Wednesday night. John Robert Smith, 23, lost $4,500 in the home invasion, Officer Jerry Lawrence of the Shelbyville Police Department said. "He was attempting to leave for work when two dark-skinned black males approached him with a shotgun and ordered him back into the house," Lawrence said. "They demanded money."...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under withering attack from conservatives, President Bush ended his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court Thursday and promised a quick replacement. Democrats accused him of bowing to the "radical right wing of the Republican Party."...

Community's junior varsity football team finished its inaugural season this week in Huntland with a closing record of 1-7-1. I realize that many reading this article may consider seven losses in nine outings to be a disappointing season, having become accustomed, maybe even spoiled by the past success of the Shelbyville and Cascade programs in recent years...