Stories from Saturday, August 16, 2008

Marie Phillips Ayers, 87, of Wartrace, died Friday at Bedford County Nursing Home. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with Mark Pierce officiating. Burial will follow at Hollywood Cemetery in Wartrace. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday.

Groundwater monitoring by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) continues to show impacts from the closed Quail Hollow Landfill, the Solid Waste Authority was told Thursday. A letter from geologist James T. Clark, of the Division of Solid Waste Management at TDEC's Columbia field office, to Waste Management in Lewisburg said the division has reviewed the semi-annual groundwater monitoring reports dated July 3 of this year and "is requiring that a water use survey be conducted around this facility.". ...