Stories from Wednesday, August 1, 2007

You've really got to like the features we now have on our new and improved Website, starting today. The addition of comments to stories is a great idea. Several of the larger papers in our state have this ability and it's a good way to sample public opinion on a given issue. There's also features like photo sharing, videos and slide shows...

August has arrived! The thermometer announces the date if the calendar doesn't. I greet the new month with an array of feelings and mixed emotions. Having turned a year older yesterday, I don't think I can credit any of the thoughts to wisdom suddenly found...

At the ripe old age of ten I had already set seemingly unrealistic career goals. I wanted to be an actress. Maybe I was idealistic, but this is the little girl who got to pick her own clothes off the rack when she couldn't even read the price tags. I suppose some people do end up following in the footsteps of their father or mother and make this decision as soon as they learn to walk. ...

We hope you enjoy our new web site, which includes more interactive features than ever before, with additional features to be added in the coming months. "We think our new content will give people more reason to visit the Times-Gazette web site," said editor René A. Capley, "and it also gives them more ways to respond to what's going on in the news."...

Mark Anthony Buntley was found guilty of bribery last night in Bedford County Courthouse; the defendant returns in two months to hear his sentence, which could be up to 10 years. Buntley, 20, was charged, along with James Edward "Blue" Farrar Jr., 34, of bribing a woman so she wouldn't testify against Buntley in a theft trial on Jan. 9. Judge Lee Russell declared a mistrial last winter and police investigated...

Bell Buckle Board of Aldermen and Mayor approved borrowing $1 million to pay for state mandated improvements to their ailing sewer system on Tuesday during a special called meeting. Also approved were bids for the main part of the project: a 1 million-gallon equalization tank for the town's sewer plant...

Bedford County Financial Management Committee recommended passage of the county school budget and the Bedford County Nursing Home budget Tuesday night, meaning that all of the county's budgets and tax rates are ready for final approval Aug. 14 by Bedford County Board of Commissioners...

With school opening soon, parents are going to be headed to the stores for this year's clothes and supplies. But the best time to do your shopping will be this weekend, when Tennesseans will have their second annual Sales Tax Holiday. It begins Friday at 12:01 a.m. and ends Sunday at 11:59 p.m...

Graveside services for Glenda Fay Swiggart, 60, of Shelbyville, who died Tuesday, will be held 10 a.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation with the family will be 3-7 p.m. Friday at Hillcrest Funeral Home.