Stories from Thursday, January 19, 2006

Funeral services for Nell Bernice Crosslin, 89, of Shelbyville, who died Tuesday at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro, will be 2 p.m. today at Gowen-Smith Chapel with the Rev. Ron Chilton officiating.

Nearly 100 Bedford County children have been registered for the Imagination Library, according to officials at the kick-off conducted Wednesday in the Argie Cooper Public Library. And the youngest person registered was the unborn son of Jennifer McGee, 29, an X-ray technician at Bedford County Medical Center who says she's already reading to her son, Tucker, who's due April 3...

Bedford County Emergency Communications District (E-911) board of directors, meeting Wednesday night, heard a report on a system which would improve radio coverage for emergency departments by using four different smaller towers instead of relying on the current tower site on Horse Mountain...

A $22,702 Federal Emergency Management Agency grant will help agencies in Bedford County to better feed and shelter the county's hungry and homeless, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon said in a news release. "For 23 years, Congress has funded FEMA's Emergency Food and Shelter Program to help social service agencies in more than 2,500 cities and counties nationwide," Gordon said. ...

Bedford County's Election Commission is scheduled to meet Friday evening to consider a request from the Republican Party of Bedford County to hold a GOP primary in May. Election Commission Chairman Allen Pitner called the 5 p.m. meeting to be held in the basement conference room of the Bedford County Courthouse on a request from Barbara Blanton, chairman of the Republican Party of Bedford County, according to Summer Leverette, deputy administrator of elections...

Funeral services for Claude Alexander Sons, 89, of Normandy, who died Wednesday at his home, will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home in Tullahoma. Joe Hill and John Walding will officiate and burial will follow in Maplewood Cemetery...