Stories from Saturday, June 24, 2006

"The purpose is not only to clean the river but to bring awareness that we need to keep it clean ... this is our drinking water source," said Helen Garner referring to the seventh Duck River Clean-up project taking place Saturday. The river clean-up project began in 1998 and has been held each year since, with the exception of 2004 when flooding conditions forced its cancellation...

CHAPEL HILL -- From GI Joe to Sgt. Bilko, they're all here in flesh and blood, spirit and memory. These are the men of the 483rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery unit during World War II who gather annually to renew friendships born in war and to remember those who died in combat...

Headquarters Air Force has announced that Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Commander Brig. Gen. David L. Stringer will retire Jan. 1, 2007. Stringer has commanded AEDC since February 2004. AEDC, located in Coffee and Franklin counties, is the largest collection of ground-based aerospace test facilities in the world...

A Florida couple will not seek a rehearing from a circuit court judge who denied their adoption request last week involving a boy who is back with his family in Bell Buckle, but an appeal is possible, according to their attorney. The boy Christian has been placed back with his maternal cousin and her husband, Tiffany and Jeff Delk of Bell Buckle, after a judge denied an adoption petition from foster parents Denise and Ivar Baklid of Orange City, Fla., who had kept the boy for the past three months.. ...

An alert drug store employee helped police capture a woman Thursday who allegedly forged a prescription to triple the number of allotted tablets. Detective Lori Mallard and Officer Bill Logue were waiting at Eckerd Drugs, Madison Street, when Margie Grace Drennan, 19, Anthony Lane, arrived to pick up what she allegedly hoped would be 60 tablets...

Graveside services for James R. Peeler, 49, of Shelbyville, who died Monday, will be 3 p.m. Sunday at Peeler Cemetery. Woodfin Memorial Chapel of Murfreesboro is in charge of arrangements.

Elsie Pilkington, 76, of Shelbyville died Thursday at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Monday at Gowen-Smith Chapel with Charles Gwinn and James Gragg officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery.