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Julie Kay Housch
(Obituary ~ 12/18/09)
Julie Kay Housch, 39, of Shelbyville died Thursday at her home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Fairlane Church of Christ with H.A. Beasley officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the church. Hillcrest Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Patricia Steede Carey
(Obituary ~ 12/18/09)
Patricia Steede Carey, 72, of Prospect in Giles County, died Thursday at Maury Regional Hospital in Columbia. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Geoff Giesemann officiating. Burial will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will begin at noon Saturday.
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Tiffany Brosemer
(Obituary ~ 12/18/09)
Tiffany Brosemer, 33, of Murfreesboro died Monday at Alive Hospice residence. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Murfreesboro Funeral Home with George Jackson officiating. Burial will follow at Middle Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday and 9 to 11 a.m. Monday.
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"Race to the Top" school guidelines approved
(Local News ~ 12/18/09)
Bedford County Board of Education, meeting Thursday night, approved a memorandum of understanding with the state to comply with the guidelines of President Obama's "Race To The Top" grant program. The program will evaluate teachers and principals based on criteria such as student test scores, and make tenure more dependent on the results. "This was somewhat controversial a month ago," said School Superintendent Ed Gray...
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Distance learning technology demonstrated
(Local News ~ 12/18/09)
During Thursday night's meeting of Bedford County Board of Education, school system technology coordinator Joan Gray introduced a demonstration of the distance learning technology now being implemented in the school system. Mike Lay of Personal Computer Systems Inc. ...
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Service allows status checks on offenders
(Local News ~ 12/18/09)
Sheriff Randall Boyce has announced that Bedford County is now online with VINE/SAVIN, an automated service which can be used by crime victims to keep track of the custody status of their attackers. Crime victims can call (866) 277-7477 or go to vinelink.com to submit the name or booking number of an offender whose status they wish to track. They will then be automatically notified when the offender is released, transferred or in the event of an escape...
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Murder suspect tells detective drugs led to shots (Local News ~ 12/18/09)
A robbery and dispute over drug dealing territory may have been the motive behind the Oct. 23 murder of a Shelbyville man, a police detective testified on Thursday. Brandon Jamar "BG" Holmes, 21, of Shelbyville was bound over to the Bedford County grand jury after a preliminary hearing before General Sessions Court Judge Charles Rich. Holmes is accused of murdering 23-year-old Gary LeTron Cordelle "Tron" Thomison of Shelbyville... -
William Earl McCollough
(Obituary ~ 12/18/09)
William Earl McCollough, 85, of Beech Grove died Friday at Manchester Health Care. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Mark Barron officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday.
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Lucy Coarene Helton Sanders
(Obituary ~ 12/18/09)
Lucy Coarene Helton Sanders, 85 of El Bethel died Thursday night at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville after a short illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Randall Harmon and Jerel Neill officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday and beginning at 1 p.m.Sunday.
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