Stories from Friday, October 20, 2006

If Shelbyville Central intends to win their first game of the season tonight, they will have to find a way to stop one of the best offenses in Region 5-4A or, perhaps, the state. It will be Senior Night as the Eagles (0-8, 0-5 5-4A) play in their final home game of the year against eighth-ranked Maplewood (7-1, 4-1) at 7...

MURFREESBORO -- Cascade nearly made the seemingly impossible possible in their District 11-A/AA semifinal match with Spring Hill on Thursday night. Trailing 3-0 to the top-seeded Lady Raiders looked like a respectable loss after the Class AA foes trounced the No. 4 seed Lady Champions 7-0 just over two weeks ago...

Ralph McKinley Hasty, 57, of Lynchburg died Wednesday at his residence. Funeral services were this morning at Lynchburg Funeral Home with Chuck Baker and Jimmy Kesey officiating. Burial followed at Lynchburg Cemetery.

Funeral services for Maggie Melton Cathey, 82, of Shelbyville, who died Thursday at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, will be 3 p.m. Sunday at Gowen-Smith Chapel. Perry Whitaker will officiate and burial will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation with the family will be 4-9 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. until service time on Sunday...

Local customers of AmSouth Bank who thought they'd be absorbed into Regions Bank as part of a huge merger will be transferred to some other bank instead. The parent companies of AmSouth and Regions, both of which have operations in Shelbyville, are merging. ...

Bedford County Board of Education is moving ahead with preparations for the expansion of Shelbyville Central High School and will hold a special called meeting 5 p.m. Oct. 26 to consider what construction method to use. The school system already has a proposed contract in hand from American Constructors, which built the new Harris Middle School, for a construction management program similar to the one used for HMS. ...

A recommendation on where to invest $10.4 million might be heard next week by the directors of a state-chartered agency created to maintain and develop water quality and supply in a five-county area. That's according to Duck River Agency Executive Director Doug Murphy and DRA Finance Director Jill Garrett, whose offices are on East Depot Street where they explain that for the recommendation to occur a couple of things must happen...

The look of Bell Buckle Town Hall is changing bit by bit -- and it's the small town's new first lady who's leading the way. Soon after Carla Webb's husband Dennis was elected mayor, she walked into the building and thought "this is not a very welcoming place."...

A new weight record may have been set in Bedford County's ongoing wave of central air system thefts. An American Standard weighing three tons was taken between Oct. 11 and Monday from a Warners Bridge Road home, according to the Bedford County Sheriff's Department...

The Bedford County Sheriff's Department's investigation into cattle rustling has resulted in the recovery of a couple more cows. "Two of John Teague's cows have been recovered," Sheriff Randall Boyce said early Friday afternoon. Teague, the University of Tennessee Extension agent in Bedford County, reported half a dozen cows stolen overnight on Jan. 3-4 this year from his property on Fairfield Pike...