Stories from Saturday, April 21, 2007

Over the next few months, decisions are going to have to be made concerning the future of the Walking Horse industry. Some sort of an agreement between representatives of the horse business and the United State Department of Agriculture must go forward...

I had never met the big, gruff man who greeted me when I walked into his office. After nine years as a full-time homemaker, I was seeking a job for which I was both inexperienced and undereducated. Trying desperately not to let him know he scared me to death, I admitted to Franklin Yates that I knew nothing about his business, about doing the job he was seeking to fill. Yet, for reasons I never determined, he hired me as "women's editor" of the Times-Gazette...

Funeral services for William Claude "Tudy" West, 68, of Shelbyville, who died Thursday at Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Ray Armstrong and the Rev. James Griggs officiating. Burial will follow at Wheel Cemetery. Visitation will be 5-9 p.m. Saturday.

Melissa Evelyn Mangrum Hawkins, 88, of South Carolina died Friday. A graveside service will be held 10 a.m. Monday at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Hillcrest Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements.

Janice Brantley Adcock, 68, of Shelbyville died Saturday at Bedford County Nursing Home. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Monday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Sam Jack Brantley officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Sunday.

The Tennessee Office of Homeland Security, in cooperation with the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, local Emergency Management Agencies, public safety, health department and hospital officials in Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Lincoln, Marshall, Moore, and Rutherford counties, will conduct an emergency preparedness exercise from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday. ...

A Honda generator was stolen from outside the White Street home of Lawrence Bradley Presley overnight Thursday, Shelbyville police report. The series EM5000 unit's value is listed as approximately $2,000. Jail intake The following persons were arrested since Thursday by the Shelbyville Police Department, Bedford County Sheriff's Department, Tennessee Highway Patrol or 17th Judicial District Drug Task Force and processed through Bedford County Jail. ...

Editor's note: Last in a series reviewing the Walking Horse industry and its significance in the community. This series has reviewed the industry's impact in Bedford County and all of Middle Tennessee and the steps leaders are taking in seeking solutions to problems within the industry...

The shuttered, but not forgotten, Quail Hollow Landfill in Bedford County might be used again by Waste Management Inc. if Marshall County commissioners vote on Monday to deny the company's request to expand use of Cedar Ridge Landfill. That's according to Robert Cheney, business development manager for Waste Management. ...

Times-Gazette Publisher Hugh Jones has announced the appointment of Rene' A. Capley to the position of managing editor, an opening created with the retirement of Kay Rose on April 27. Capley has been a freelance writer for the paper in addition to having worked for the lifestyles division in the mid-1990s. She recently undertook the task of coordinating the Bicentennial Book project for the T-G....

Just like the road leading to the Wizard of Oz, the pathway leading to the Shelbyville Central High School soccer field will soon be paved with bricks. SCHS soccer coach Neal Gordon wants to sell at least 2,000 bricks with names and sentiments engraved on them that will lead the way from the parking lot into the school's soccer field. ...

The sticks arrived just in time for Cascade as a four-run third-inning rally catapulted the Champions to a 15-5 win over Moore County in Lynchburg on Friday afternoon. MoMo Stewart and Stefin Reed belted homers to highlight the surge while Corey Mullins doubled and Justin Bryant singled...

The Community Viqueens ventured into uncharted ground Thursday by visiting Nashville Christian for a doubleheader. Community's Amanda Joslyn threw a four-hitter in the opener but Nashville Christian hurler Cassie Hutchinson did the same for a 5-2 win...