Stories from Tuesday, November 6, 2007

I've often told second-year Shelbyville Central coach Jason Hardy that getting the Golden Eagle football program back to the glory days of the past is going to be a marathon, not a sprint. It's fair to say that Hardy and the Eagles have at least completed the first leg of the race...

Webb Middle invaded Cascade Middle on Monday night with hopes of avenging a 22-point loss in the same setting last season. Teams made up of seventh and eighth graders typically have an overhaul of sorts from one season to the next, but this matchup contained a few of the key players from that January showdown and the smell of redemption was in the air...

As part of a plan announced prior to this year's Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration, 16 key officials with the show -- management, judges and industry stewards -- agreed to submit themselves for polygraph testing in September. The show has announced that 15 of those people passed with flying colors; one had questionable reactions, which the unnamed subject -- a judge -- is blaming on stress because a threatening message was left in his driveway...

A ceremonial groundbreaking was held Monday for Bedford Physicians Plaza, a medical office building on the campus of the new Bedford County Medical Center. Henry Trost of Franklin-based First Colony Healthcare, which is developing the project, noted during the ceremonies that ground has already been broken. But the company, as well as BCMC, took the opportunity to celebrate anyway, sticking their shovels into a pile of dirt at the corner of the already-prepared pad...

Courthouse security grants announced Monday by Tennessee's Administrative Office of the Courts renew the debate in Bedford County over whether the judicial system should be relocated away from the county courthouse. Marshall County is to receive up to $26,000, and Bedford County is to get up to $6,000 as their parts of a $2 million appropriation from the Tennessee General Assembly to the state court system's budget for this fiscal year, according to Elizabeth Sykes, administrative director of the courts.. ...

A special Veterans Day ceremony is set for 10 a.m. Saturday at Hollywood Cemetery in Wartrace to honor local veterans from today and the past. Over the past few months, an effort has been made to identify every serviceman and woman buried in Hollywood Cemetery from the Civil War to the present day...

Thieves kept Shelbyville and Bedford County officers active over the weekend. •An XBox video game, 12 XBox games, tool box, DVD player and double-edged battle axe were taken during the day Saturday from the home of Richard D. Slover II, U.S. 41-A South...

Shirley Kay Armstrong, 55, of Shelbyville died Sunday at Bedford County Medical Center. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Ray Armstrong officiating. Burial will follow in Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will be 3-8 p.m. today...