Stories from Monday, August 21, 2006

Warning: Too many people want to control your news. Consider these examples: Think of them as ramped-up infomercials. They show personalities describing a product as if a news story was being reported. Newspapers aren't immune to those efforts. Occasionally we see businesses, usually dealers advertising used car sales, attempting to make display advertisements resemble news stories...

Graveside services for Elsie Catherine Busch, 84, of Cumberland Furnace, who died Sunday at Life Care Center in Centerville, will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Hazel Cemetery in Bell Buckle.

Funeral services for Melissa Ruth Limbaugh Kight, 55, of Shelbyville, who died Saturday at her son's home in Shelbyville were Sunday at Lynchburg Funeral Home with Steven Leathers officiating. Burial followed at Beech Hill Cemetery.

Palmer Foodservice, a company that had its beginning shortly after World War II, held a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday for a new plant on Stanley Boulevard. Still family-owned, Palmer Foodservice will relocate from its familiar Lane Parkway site to the new building when construction is complete...

A Chapel Hill-area man is continuing his appeal of a jury verdict that he threatened a father and son with a gun and he's doing so after changing attorneys following a dispute raised by a court reporter over payment for a transcript. "There was no gun," according to Grady Lee Flippo, 41, of Old Columbia Road, who was convicted on Jan. 31 on a charge of attempted aggravated assault against David Karroll and his son on Hickory Hill Road during a confrontation in June last year...

Construction contractors who want to build the 10-classroom addition at Cascade Elementary School are to submit bids for the project by 2 p.m. Sept. 12. "The main goal is to make sure the addition is open and ready by the next school year," according to Jason Spence, the architect's project coordinator who provided some details about the addition on Friday...

A Wilson County woman was sentenced on Friday to 48 hours of unsupervised probation as a result of a dispute at Calsonic Arena during last year's Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration. Bedford County Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell's sentencing order becomes final in 30 days if Alecia Diane Cooper of Mt. Juliet does not appeal her conviction on charges of attempted assault and disorderly conduct...

Some young people today may not realize that there actually was life before TV. I can barely recall those days of listening to the radio for entertainment, or reading a good book. Life sure changed when television invaded our lives. I remember back in the early 1950s living on the very edge of town in Grand Forks, N.D, when the Dezotell family became the first people on Sunset Drive to own a television...

One of Shelbyville's own returned home as Saturday was proclaimed Ashleigh Newman Day. Newman, a member of the NCAA women's national champions Maryland Terrapins, was honored by friends at a gathering Saturday afternoon at Shelbyville Central High. She was presented an award by Shelbyville mayor Geneva Smith and Bedford County commissioner and mayor-elect Eugene Ray...