Stories from Thursday, June 22, 2006

The Middle Tennessee Mudcats continue to swim through their summer baseball schedule successfully after a pair of one-run victories at Drake's Creek Park in Hendersonville on Wednesday night. In the first game of the doubleheader, Grant Doughman's two-run home run gave the Mudcats a 2-1 advantage in the top of the seventh. Tyler Bowman walked and scored on a wild pitch to push the upper hand to 3-1...

Funeral services for Elizabeth Davidson Finney, 90, who died Thursday at Bedford County Nursing Home, will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in Willow Mount Cemetery. (Doak-Howell Funeral Home)

Shelbyville's city council acted on three finance-related matters in a special called meeting Wednesday. The council voted to select Health Spring as the city's health insurance plan provider for the next fiscal year, covering 195 employees. City Manager Ed Craig provided council members a spreadsheet that analyzed the proposals for the health insurance. ...

One of the largest youth horse shows east of the Mississippi River is taking place this week in the only home it's known in its 23-year history: Shelbyville. The Tennessee State 4-H Horse Championships gives youth from fourth through 12th grades the chance to show off their skills in a variety of equine competition, according to Dr. Doyle Meadows, a University of Tennessee animal science professor who serves as the show's general manager...

Bedford County Board of Education voted Tuesday night to increase the size of the planned expansion of Cascade Elementary School from eight classrooms to 10 after hearing from its architect that the project will still fall within the budget approved by the county commission...

Former Shelbyville Central standouts Dequan Twilley and Barry Stewart and Eagle coach Kevin Thomas will be together one final time in the Tennessee Athletic Coaches Association's East-West Basketball All-Star doubleheader Saturday at Centennial High in Franklin...

Funeral services for Essie Mills, 78, of Petersburg, who died Wednesday, will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Higgins Funeral Home in Fayetteville with Bishop Lamar Dotson and Donnie Jones officiating. Burial will follow in Old Orchard Cemetery.

Lela May Hudson Reed, 85, of Unionville died Wednesday in Shelbyville after an extended illness. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill with William Chester, Patrick Denton, Dudley Stovall and Allen Broughton officiating. Buria will follow at Simpson Cemetery in Rover.

Tennessee's non-conference football schedule adds another traditional powerhouse to the ledger next decade with Friday's announcement that the Vols are meeting Nebraska in a home-and-home series. UT is slated to visit Memorial Stadium in Lincoln Sept. 10, 2016, with a return engagement set Sept. 9, 2017, at Neyland Stadium...