Stories from Monday, February 12, 2007

Jo Anne Clanton Wilkes, 73, of Shelbyville died Sunday at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Dr. Drew Hayes officiating. Burial will follow at Coleman Cemetery. Visitation will begin 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Subdivision developers will have to assure adequate water pressure for fire hydrants in new neighborhoods built in Shelbyville where water service is to be from Bedford County Utility District. That's the consensus of the rural water board commissioners when reacting to new subdivision regulations in the city, rules that start as talks stalled on how the city might acquire some of BCUD's service area along U.S. 41A...

Do you have a big appetite? Then get ready because the Bell Buckle Volunteer Fire Department is holding its first ever Chili Cook-off. The event is set for Saturday, Feb. 24, at the new Bell Buckle Fire Station on Main Street. All cooks are encouraged to participate whether they live in Bell Buckle or elsewhere. ...

A false report charge has been dropped for a Bedford County woman who was accused last spring when she took a boy in state custody to his sister's graduation and different accounts emerged on what happened next. "The boy had lied from the beginning," Deborah Adele Westbrook, 46, of Pass Road, said Friday when asked about the district attorney's uncertainty that the state had sufficient evidence to overcome reasonable doubt...

With the completion of the regular season, everybody's record returns to 0-0. Everything leading up to this week was for memories, clippings and seedings. Seniors all over the Midstate are sweating bullets and hope that their basketball careers don't end within the next week...