Stories from Saturday, July 22, 2006

John B. "J.B." Anderson, 75, of Alpharetta, Ga., died Thursday at North Fulton Hospital in Roswell, Ga. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Thursday, July 27 at Total Grace Christian Center in Covington, Ga. Roswell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Funeral services for Lillian Aleene Darden, 89, of Normandy, who died Friday at Harton Regional Medical Center in Tullahoma after a brief illness, will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Tullahoma Funeral Home with Jack Hice officiating. Burial will follow at Rose Hill Memorial Gardens.

A memorial service for Darrell L. Klamt, 85, of Wartrace will be 7 p.m. Monday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Kevin Minchey officiating. Mr. Klamt died Friday after an extended illness.

In only two more years, Cascade's class of 1988 (to which I belong) will have been gone from the orange locker halls and black horse decorated walls for 20 years. I can't believe it. I still go there once in awhile to take a picture for the paper and the memories always slap me in the face...

NASHVILLE -- In a ceremony that emphasized the significance of the new law, Gov. Phil Bredesen on Friday signed legislation authorizing the Duck River Agency to invest its $10 million fund from TVA and water customers to earn greater interest income...

The Duck River Agency's new financial director is the woman who's been auditing its books for several years. She's Jill Garrett of Culleoka, originally from Lewisburg, who started her new job in Shelbyville on June 19. She succeeds Margaret Lane. The financial director of the five-county river agency is an equal partner in the administration of the agency which was created in conjunction with the construction of Normandy Dam...

It may not look like it now, but progress is moving forward to correct traffic problems on North Main Street and Madison Street that have been plaguing drivers traveling in Shelbyville. The bad news is that it may be a couple of years before all the work will be completed...

Knowing firsthand the suffering that accompanies chemotherapy, Dwight Stubblefield started an organization in memory of his late wife who succumbed to the disease. He wanted to do something to help make the life of cancer patients a little easier. "We started the project in the spring of 2005," Stubblefield said. "I asked a great nurse by the name of Donna Anderson what we could do to help sick cancer patients."...

NASHVILLE (AP) -- Federal immigration officials here say they simply do not have enough agents to process every person assumed to be in the country illegally. At the request of Gov. Phil Bredesen, representatives of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, met Friday with state and local law enforcement officials to improve communication among all agencies in handling illegal immigration...