Stories from Tuesday, May 12, 2009

A change in environmental standards for diesel engines may make the kind of truck chassis used for ambulances hard to come by during 2010, and so Bedford County Financial Management Committee voted last month to recommend that Bedford County Emergency Medical Services purchase a new chassis now, even if it can't be used right away...

For more than 20 years, a group of dedicated senior citizens have been traveling to area nursing homes to sing gospel songs to residents. "We call ourselves the 'Senior Citizen Singers'," said Ike Farrar, who serves as the group's MC. The singers started with Sarah Sanders, who was the music teacher at the old Pleasant Grove School. After her death, B.C. Boyce took over...

The Times-Gazette was named a finalist in four different categories for this year's Tennessee Associated Press Managing Editors journalism competition and ended up bringing home five awards -- three first places and two seconds. The T-G competes in Division IV, against other newspapers with a daily circulation of up to 10,000...

Shelbyville's city council is meeting this afternoon in an emergency session to approve starting work to repair damage to the city's underground stormwater flume system before it gets any worse. Meanwhile, speculation is mounting over the cause of the collapse and some fingers are being pointed at recent work done for Shelbyville Power, Water and Sewerage System...

Four people are facing a number of charges after sheriff's officials from two counties recently seized a large amount of marijuana, cash and a vehicle, while two of the suspects are also facing charges for bringing a 2-year-old child to the alleged drug deal...

The remaining members of the Shelbyville Central tennis team fell in the Region 4-AAA semifinals on Monday. Players from Blackman, Riverdale and Siegel ended the hopes of a handful of Eagles and Eaglettes. "Well, our players have had a remarkable season, but this was not the finish I envisioned," Shelbyville coach Doyle Hutton said...

ERIN -- For the fifth consecutive year Cascade softball ran into the roadblock that is the Region 5-A semifinals as they fell 7-0 to Houston County on Monday. After three straight season-ending losses to East Robertson and one more to Summertown, the Lady Fighting Irish (20-4-1) forced the Lady Champions (16-9-1) to hang up their cleats for the final time in 2009...

Take your pick. Will it be Brown or will it be Mullins? Mullins or Brown? It reminds one of the old childhood saying that one is iron and the other one is steel. If the right one doesn't get you then the left one will. Kyle Mullins and Josh Brown took turns hitting and pitching the top-ranked Cascade Champions to a 9-4 Region 5-A semifinal win over Nashville Christian by combining to strike out 12 batters while allowing three earned runs and scattering seven hits...

The Tennessee Preservation Trust has listed the power house and the Duck River dam in Shelbyville as one of the top ten endangered historic sites in the state. Each year since 2001, the trust has issued its annual "Ten in Tennessee" list based on nominations from the public. Officials say the list "highlights urban and rural sites across the state to elicit public support for saving threatened historic resources."...

Blanche Marie Crosslin Pittman, 76, of Nashville, sister of Westelle Giles, of Shelbyville, died Sunday. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Eastland Funeral Home in Nashville, followed by burial at Woodlawn Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to service time Wednesday.