Stories from Friday, August 11, 2006

Claity Crowell, 94, of Shelbyville died Thursday at University Medical Center in Lebanon. Graveside services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Willow Mount Cemetery. Gowen-Smith Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

The youths of today are often criticized for having no sense of history. It will be hard for the high school athletes that were in attendance at Thursday night's Shelbyville Quarterback Club Barbecue to forget the past as it was foretold to them by several members of the 1943-50 Bedford County Training School football teams...

Bedford County Utility District Commissioners on Thursday accepted a suggestion from two Shelbyville utility emissaries who said their panels ought to get together to deal with differences in their abilities to serve customers where their service areas meet...

It's now official. Shelbyville's city council voted Thursday to establish the fiscal year 2006-07 budget and set a new property tax rate: $1.41, which exceeds the certified rate of $1.26 by 15 cents. The tax is going down six cents from the current rate of $1.47...

She didn't feel a knot, she saw the indention. And she knew. Cancer. "My stomach sunk; I knew exactly what it was," Becky Nichols recalls of that first recognition of breast cancer. Her fears were confirmed a few days later by a mammogram and doctor's exam...

Funeral services of Mabel Beatrice Johnson of Trinity, Ala., mother of Carl Johnson of Bell Buckle, will be held 2 p.m. Saturday at Manchester Funeral Home. The Rev. Mike Thomas will officiate with burial following in Prairie Plains Cemetery near Hillsboro.

Tennessee staged a rebound of sorts during Thursday's football workout at Lindsey Nelson Stadium, bouncing back from a sub-par outing the day before. Head coach Phillip Fulmer practiced the team for better than two hours and thought his squad took the challenge...