Stories from Monday, January 19, 2009

WOODBURY -- They say that close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. That was never truer than Saturday night's non-district matchup between Community and Cannon County. The Vikings outplayed the home team in front of an extremely hostile crowd and led from start to the final minutes only to succumb to turnovers and to the fate of whistles that didn't go their way to lose 57-56...

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Early risers celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at a special breakfast held at The Cedar Bucket this morning, honoring the life of King and what his leadership symbolized. For many, this year's holiday served as a full-circle moment, of sorts, in light of Tuesday's inauguration of the first African-American president, Barack Obama...

With documentary cameras rolling, members of Shelbyville's Somali community met with Hispanic residents and the T-G to talk about living in Tennessee, as well as some of the problems they have encountered, such as eviction from a local apartment complex...

"Somebody asked me once why I don't write happier songs," Hal Ketchum told an audience Saturday night at Calsonic Arena. "And I said, 'These are the happy ones.'" Ketchum's soulful, bluesy songwriting would have been played on pop radio in the mid-70s, alongside Jim Croce, Gordon Lightfoot, B.W. ...

A proposed ordinance that would strictly regulate what property owners could do with their trees was tabled by the Bell Buckle planning commission at the Thursday night meeting so commission members could study it, and alternatives, before recommending it to the board of mayor and aldermen at a future date...

Katherine Irene Keith, 85, of Shelbyville, died Sunday at NHC Healthcare in Murfreesboro. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Feldhaus Memorial Chapel.

Bessie Ruth Pressgrove Mullins, 91, of Shelbyville, died Friday at Greenview Regional Hospital in Bowling Green, Ky. Funeral services will be held at noon Tuesday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Jeff Smith officiating. Burial will follow at Pressgrove Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

WOODBURY -- Maybe coach Allison Layne should just go ahead and schedule Class AA teams as non-district opponents for Community on a full-time basis, based on her team's performance against larger schools so far this season. The Viqueens won 51-48 over a very physical Cannon County team fresh off of a big district win, and playing in front of a very vocal and fiercely partisan capacity crowd on Saturday for their second win in as many tries against larger schools in the past 30 days...