Stories from Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Shelbyville's public works department will be contributing equipment and labor to repair a leak in a dam at the "duck pond" on Fairfield Pike after the city council approved lending the landowners a hand. But some are afraid that giving this assistance may set a precedent and open up a legal can of worms for the city...

With two members voting "no," Shelbyville's city council passed the 2009-10 budget Thursday night. The proposed 2009-10 budget lists revenue of $12,041,519 and expenses of $12,093,178, with a deficit of $51,659. Without comment, councilmen Al Stephenson and Lee Roy Cunningham voted against the measure...

A few downpours, a couple of thousand sunburns, a landfill's worth of garbage, and it's all over. The estimated 75,000 Bonnaroo visitors are all on their way home, exhausted, muddy, but largely satisfied. "Best yet," said Linnea Peters, who made the trip from Colorado for the third year in a row...

Although last weekend's shutoff of analog TV signals was widely publicized, some Bedford County residents waited until the last moment, or beyond, to actually obtain the equipment they needed to make the switch. Others who'd already installed digital-ready equipment discovered that they needed to re-scan after the cutoff...

Middle Tennessee had more than its fair share of out-of-state visitors this past weekend, but they weren't here just for the CMA Awards or Bonnaroo. Thousands of visitors found their way to Bell Buckle Saturday for the sixth annual Motorcycle Day. "It went great," said Rodney Simmons, who organized the event with Mark Felices. "We had people coming in all day. There's no way to count the bikes, but we certainly had thousands."...

The driver of a tractor-trailer, which was found unoccupied in a ditch on Harts Chapel Road on Saturday afternoon, was under the influence of methamphetamines at the time of the crash, Shelbyville police said. Billy R. Plummer, of Elkins, Ky., told Accident Investigator Matt Griffy he had been taking meth for three to four months...

Last week, a lady to whom I had just been introduced seemed incredulous when she found out I was possibly going to Bonnaroo. From what I could gather from her remarks, she seemed to have the stereotypical belief that anyone who goes to Bonnaroo is considered to be an "undesirable" by polite society...

Jordan Burchett threw a complete game shutout and Connor Tracy provided the offense for the Post 23 Senior Legion team in a 3-0 win in the first game of a doubleheader against visiting Baxter on Saturday. Shaq Thompson led off the first with a solid base hit and Michael Watkins moved him over with a ground ball. Thompson scored the first run of the game on an error by the Baxter pitcher...

Shelbyville Central is off to an impressive start in the second team camp hosted by the Eaglettes. It's one of the biggest girls high school basketball camps in Tennessee with 42 teams from three states participating. The Eaglettes won a pair of games Sunday and three more on Monday...

Memorial services for LeRoy W. Ostrander, 62, of Tennessee, formerly of Lake Geneva, Wisc., who died Sunday at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, will be noon Friday at Steinke Funeral Home in Lake Geneva, Wisc. The Rev. Larry Williams will officiate and burial will be in Springfield Union Cemetery...