Stories from Saturday, March 25, 2006

Dr. Jorge M. Balaguer, one of the physicians credited with saving Nadine Hopkins' life, will be the guest speaker at this year's Professional Women's Luncheon. Hopkins, who with her husband Paul owns WLIJ-AM and WZNG-AM, which sponsor the annual luncheon, was discovered last November to have 90 percent blockages in two arteries on top of heart. She and her family were told that without bypass surgery, she likely would not have survived through the Christmas season...

Funeral services for John David Rodgers, 87, of Shelbyville, who died Friday at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, will be 11 a.m. Monday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel. Geoff Giesemann will officiate and burial will be 1 p.m. Monday at Mount Hope Cemetery in Franklin...

Community's Viqueens kept it close for awhile Friday against Moore County, but things turned sour in the fifth inning. The Viqueens committed four errors, allowing four runs to score on one hit, and Moore County (1-3) went on to win 15-2 despite finishing with only six hits...

Copper sheets have been stolen for the second time within two weeks in Shelbyville. Twelve pieces of 3x10 copper sheets were taken overnight Wednesday from Shelbyville Lumber Co., North Main Street, police said. Two fences were cut to reach the copper...

The wind was a bit brisk last Saturday but with the sun shining, the mood was just as bright as the flowers that were all over Bell Buckle for the annual Daffodil Day. The event was sponsored by the Bell Buckle Chamber of Commerce and the Tree Board and kicked off with the Daffodil Show at the Town Hall...

Residents along Fairfield Pike are fed up with the traffic situation in front of their homes and a spokesperson for the group claims that Shelbyville's city manager is not doing his job. But City Manager Ed Craig said that the council is already considering its options regarding the matter...

A Shelbyville man has been cleared of alleged wrongdoing after a Navy investigation into his detention and that of 15 other military contractors in Iraq last spring when a U.S. Marine general barred them from Fallujah for allegedly speeding and indiscriminately firing shots that hit Marine positions...

Shelbyville Municipal Planning Commission approved a definition for stone quarrying Thursday, a left-over issue from a controversy surrounding a local paving company and the city. According to the definition, stone quarrying is "the excavation or extraction from the earth of a parcel of property of rock and stone by cutting, digging, blasting, or other means, except where such excavation is necessary or required for construction on that parcel pursuant to a properly issued grading permit, and in compliance with all state and federal laws and regulations.". ...

Shelbyville City Council will hold a special called meeting Tuesday to consider its position and any possible action on a sales tax agreement made with the county in 1974, which was apparently approved in violation of Tennessee's Sunshine Law. The council will also consider their position and any action regarding Bedford County's compliance with a 1996 court injunction for the funding of Volunteer Fire Services Inc...

Eleanor Wiggs Bearden, 82, of Shelbyville, died Friday at White County Medical Center in Sparta. Graveside services wil be Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at Rosebank Cemetery in Flat Creek. The Rev. Alfred Royer will officiate. Feldhaus Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Funeral services for William L. Jackson, 63, of Shelbyville, who died Thursday at Bedford County Medical Center, will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Rev. William Thompson officiating. Burial will be 11 a.m. March 29 at Halliburton Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery in Nesbit, Miss...