Stories from Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Homer Calvin Smith Sr. of Petersburg, Ky., formerly of Shelbyville, died Saturday at the St. Elizabeth Hospice, Covington, Ky. Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday at the Middendorf-Bullock Funeral Home, Hebron, Ky. Burial, with full military honors, will follow at Petersburg (Ky.) Cemetery...

Woody Bomar, Wartrace native and part-time resident, has established Green Hills Music Group, LLC, a new independent music publishing firm in the heart of Nashville's famed Music Row. Most recently Bomar was senior vice president of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, a worldwide operation that owns most of the hit songs of The Beatles, Hank Williams Sr., Rascal Flatts, Dierks Bentley, Merle Haggard, Brooks & Dunn and hundreds of other stars...

Summer Waggoner netted six of her 12 points in the fourth quarter to help defending state champion Forrest hold off Middle Tennessee Christian 53-45 for the District 9-A tournament title on Monday night at Cascade High. Gaby Bussell scored a game-high 15 points for the ninth-ranked Lady Rockets (22-8) while Blair Foster added 12...

Round three of Cascade-Forrest commences tonight -- only this time the District 9-A tournament title is on the line. The second-seeded Champions (19-11) and top-seeded Rockets (18-9) wage battle at 8 tonight in Wartrace. A banner, bragging rights and a No. 1 seed in the Region 5-A tournament are on the line...

It is often said "Beware the Ides of March" or that "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb." Wink Groover, president of the Walking Horse Trainers' Association (WHTA) plans to do the first and hope for the second. Following the "ides" of March on the 15th, and rallying for the lamb-like status at the end, the National Trainers' Show nestles its way into the month, securing the dates of March 21-24...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Every coach hopes their team peaks just in time for the postseason. If seventh-ranked Shelbyville Central's 62-33 blowout over Lawrence County in the District 8-AAA tournament championship game Monday night is any indication, the Eaglettes (28-5) seem to be primed and ready for postseason action...

The Duck River Agency, which has more than $10 million collected from water utilities in this and four other counties, has three openings on its board of directors that hasn't been able to hold its quarterly meeting because there was no quorum. A Columbia banker sought advice on what to do about a discrepancy between documents on how the $10 million can be invested to generate more money for water projects. ...

The body of a Shelbyville man was found on the shoreline of the Mississippi Sound in Biloxi Sunday and authorities were still attempting to contact family as of late Monday. According to the Sun-Herald, the remains of 47-year-old Michael Anthony Arnold of Shelbyville was discovered floating by out-of-town visitors shortly before 3 p.m. Sunday...