Stories from Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Sue M. Barnes, 85, died Monday in Newnan, Ga. Funeral services will be noon Friday at Hillcrest Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Houston Whitworth Cemetery. Visitation will begin 11 a.m. Friday.

A brainstorming session is scheduled Thursday evening at Henry Horton State Park in Marshall County to reach consensus on how to deal with drought in the Duck River watershed, according to State Sen. Bill Ketron. Ketron (R-Murfreesboro) represents the 13th Senate District, including Maury and Marshall counties along the Duck River. He also represents Lincoln County and western Rutherford County...

The 2008 Garden Tour, sponsored by Bedford County Beautification Committee, will be held June 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Ten gardens in Bedford County have been selected by the committee. They will be in full bloom for the many visitors expected to view them on the first Saturday in June...

A new bridge in Murfreesboro has been named in honor of Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski, the U.S. Marine who grew up in Lewisburg and was killed in combat a year ago in Iraq, by the city council. "It is a very fitting tribute," says Michael Goodloe, a Murfreesboro businessman and friend of the Golczynski family who attended Thursday's council meeting because the fallen Marine's relatives were out of town...

Inspired in part by the results of an unscientific Times-Gazette web poll, Bedford County Financial Management Committee said Tuesday night it would like to conduct a more scientific poll of local attitudes towards selling Bedford County Nursing Home...

It was two years ago that we first started doing an "April Fool" story for the T-G. In 2006, I wrote a story about a Tennessee Walking Gerbil show, and then last year I wrote about celebrities protesting to change the name of Wartrace to "Peacetrace."...

A drinking water warning has been issued for the Wartrace Water System due to high turbidity levels and potentially contaminated water. The Town of Wartrace issued the warning Tuesday morning and is telling customers to boil their water before using it until further notice....

Webb rebounded from a 2-0 halftime deficit to earn a 2-2 tie at region foe University School of Nashville on a wet Tuesday. Webb coach Adrian Anderson admitted the field conditions led to his team's early deficit. "They cut the grass real short, so the field was really fast," he said. "All the balls skid along. Plus, it being wet didn't help as well. It made it hard to control the ball."...

Twelve Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association Class AAA state championships, two USA Today national championships and numerous All-Americans are merely a sampling of the honors gleaned by members of the Shelbyville Central girls basketball program...