Stories from Thursday, November 15, 2007

Glyndon Hoover Delk, 89, of Shelbyville died Wednesday at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Friday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with Mark Pierce officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 5-9 p.m. today...

Last year, Lindsey Sudberry and Kecia Johnson came up with an idea to provide Christmas gifts to residents of Bedford County's nursing homes. It went far better than they ever imagined, with over 1,900 gifts donated, far beyond the 237 that had been requested...

Rehearsals are now underway for "Exit The Body," which will be presented as a dinner theater production Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 7 and 8 at the Fly Arts Center on South Main Street. Tickets are now on sale; call 703-7613 for reservations. The mystery-comedy by Fred Carmichael takes place in New England in the 1960s. ...

Bedford County Board of Commissioners approved a number of minor housekeeping issues during their meeting on Tuesday night: The state requires that a county spend at least as much on schools each year as it spent the year before, in order to prevent counties from using increases in state funding as an excuse to drop their local funding. ...

NASHVILLE -- Audrey Geisel almost didn't make the trip. The 86-year-old businesswoman and philanthropist could easily have approved a tribute to her late husband's work without making the trip from La Jolla, Calif., to see it in person. But somehow, someone talked her into it, and she's awfully glad they did...

A pair of teams with a legitimate shot at making it all the way to Murfreesboro to play for the state championship hook up in the round of 16 on Friday night. Cascade heads to Mt. Pleasant with something to prove while the Region 6 champions take the field in search of some unfinished business...