Stories from Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Mamie G. Verfaillie, 96, of Shelbyville, died this morning at Bedford County Nursing Home after an extended illness. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Doak-Howell Funeral Home.

Today marks the fourth and final day of Shelbyville Team Camp No. 2. The 36 teams are anxious to climb out of their air mattresses and onto the hardwood for basketball games spread out over six different floors before the TSSAA's dead period kicks in on Sunday...

The Shelbyville & Vicinity chapter of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs celebrated its 17th Annual Founder's Day Luncheon Saturday at the Shelbyville & Bedford County Chamber of Commerce. The program featured a presentation about Jerusalem led by Ivy Hendricks Nilon, daughter of Mai Dee Hendricks, founder of the local NANBPW chapter. Hendricks was scheduled to make the presentation herself, but was not in attendance due to illness...

A bird flu pandemic could create disastrous consequences, not only in the potential loss of life but in the devastating economic impact, according to Carl Bailey of Bedford County Emergency Management Agency. Bailey spoke to Bedford County Board of Commissioners' rules and legislative committee Tuesday night; the committee asked that he make a presentation to the full commission in the near future...

Wartrace Board of Mayor and Alderman agreed to once again sponsor the stakes class in the Wartrace Horse Show this year for $1,000. "They've been struggling a little bit because of the situation in the horse industry," said Mayor Don Gallagher at the Tuesday meeting, referring to the 2006 walking horse season, when many horses failed to pass inspections...

A Shelbyville man has been charged in connection with the slaying of a Murfreesboro woman whose body was discovered two weeks ago near Wartrace. Donald Ray "Donnie" Sachs, 40, of Scudder Drive, is charged with criminal homicide in the death of Joyce Mattis, 52, whose remains were found June 4 in a wooded area off Cannon Road, Sheriff Randall Boyce said. The charge was filed late Tuesday afternoon...

When the lineup for this year's Bonnaroo festival in Manchester was published earlier in the year, I was -- like other classic rock fans -- disappointed that the rumored Led Zeppelin performance would not take place. Having that band drop into our neck of the woods was an admitted longshot, but the festival still had an impressive array of talent: Metallica, Pearl Jam, Chris Rock, B.B. King, Widespread Panic ... there was something for every musical taste this year...