Stories from Monday, June 23, 2008

Funeral services for Cynthia Jane Morton, 85, of Chapel Hill, who died Monday at Marshall Medical Center in Lewisburg, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Lawrence Funeral Home. The Rev. Larry Chatman will officiate. Internment will follow at Berea Cemetery in Marshall County. Visitation will be Wednesday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Evelyn Lyda Payne, 88, of Huntsville, Ala., died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Frances Bonds, of Shelbyville. Graveside services will be 3:30 p.m. today at Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville with Robert Blackwelder and Al Reeder officiating. Hillcrest Funeral Home and Spry Funeral Home of Huntsville are in charge of arrangements.

The silver aircraft that sits gleaming at Shelbyville Municipal Airport once gave passengers their first taste of air travel, and locals will have a unique chance this Saturday to relive those early years of aviation. The Flagship Detroit, the oldest American Airlines DC-3 still flying, will be taking up passengers from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Saturday as part of the airport's monthly fly-in breakfast...

The director of the upcoming Tennessee Shakespeare Festival's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" stands beneath the massive tent on the Webb School grounds, answering questions, giving instructions, and, yes, directing the flow of work going on around him. Clad in khakis and black T-shirt, actor Lane Davies is in his element...

Bedford County Board of Zoning Appeals granted special exceptions for a dry marina and a guest house on Thursday, but denied an appeal of fines assessed to a senior citizen in poor health. County Commissioner and Bedford County Planning Commission member Linda Yockey appeared before the zoning appeals board on behalf of her constituent, Bert Cathey, whom she said could not attend due to his wife's poor health. ...

Starting the week of July 7, a number of Shelbyville residents will begin a new garbage pickup schedule. Workers will also soon go door to door to inform those impacted by the change. According to Mark Clanton, director of the city's public works department, workers will shift to a four-day, 10-hour work week on July 7 in an effort to save Shelbyville money. As a result, the Friday garbage route will be phased out...

As mules begin their trek into horse country for the 17th annual Great Celebration Mule and Donkey Show July 10-12, show management is hoping spectators will come as well. "We have really focused on driving attendance this year," said Chip Walters, public relations director of the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration, the organization that sponsors the mule show...

MADISON -- The Shelbyville Sox appear to be turning the corner and finding their niche after claiming their second straight win following six losses to start the season as they took down the Tennessee Travelers 4-2 on Sunday. Things looked shaky in the early going when the Travelers took a lead in the bottom of the first inning. A leadoff home run, an error and a wild pitch led to two scores...

Shelbyville Senior American Legion Post 23 made the long haul southeast to Douglasville, Ga., just west of Atlanta, for three days of baseball in the POW/MIA Tournament. Post 23 got a pair of scores late in their final game on Saturday but it was too little, too late and they fell 9-2 to host Douglasville Post 145...