Stories from Thursday, August 9, 2007

All the talk lately has been about the heat. Guess I'll chip in my two cents as well. After working through over 20 years of summer baseball, the heat bothered me the least last year by a long stretch. It may sound weird, but spending 8-15 minutes in the sauna after lifting weights prepared me. Sitting through temperatures well past 100 degrees in the steam made 95 seem like nothin'...

Funeral services for Mildred Neal Williams, 68, of Panama City, Fla., formerly of Beech Grove and Shelbyville, will be held 5 p.m. Saturday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Douglas Moore officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. Friday.

While most of the attention this summer has centered on the rising temperatures and popping of pads, one group of ladies in Unionville is working on passing, setting and hitting a volleyball. The Community Viqueens enter the program's tenth season with a load of optimism under second-year coach Allison Layne...

Cascade High School is the ideal fit for new principal Sharon Edwards. She has been the principal next door at Cascade Elementary School for the last 10 years. The sophomores at the high school were kindergarten students under Edwards, and the juniors and seniors, she had as first and second graders. She has watched so many of the students at the high school grow up...

The final planning stages are underway for the Moore County Band Boosters-sponsored Concert in the Park to be held on Aug. 25 at the Wiseman Park in Lynchburg. Diane Crowell, booster club vice president, has played a fundamental role in organizing and routing the vendors and bands that will perform on the day...

Moving to clear up confusion about a recent tax law change, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reassured teachers and other school employees that new deferred-compensation rules will not affect the way their pay is taxed during the upcoming school year...

"Bedford County is moving." That was the message County Mayor Eugene Ray gave the Exchange Club of Bedford County Wednesday. "We're the fifth fastest growing county in the state," Ray said, which is why the city of Shelbyville and the county are working together with a long term growth plan. He invited the public to participate in the process, which will determine the course taken over the next 15 to 20 years...

Drug dogs were active in Shelbyville Tuesday night, finding marijuana in two vehicles, authorities said. Two bags containing approximately 6.06 grams of marijuana were discovered along with six rolled marijuana cigarettes in the ashtray, police said...