Stories from Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Standing at the kitchen window, I was enjoying a cup of hot tea and my favorite pastime -- watching my kids work. Buzz was picking up sticks and Ben was mowing the backyard for the first time since August and I sipped and smiled as the lawn they unearthed and shredded old leaves, twigs, a paperback book that had been left out in the rain, the lost continent of Atlantis and Jimmy Hoffa...

A Shelbyville man accused of kidnapping and threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend, turned himself in to investigators at the Cannon County Sheriff's Department late last week. Richard E. Cathey, 35, King Arthur Trailer Court, has been charged with aggravated kidnapping and is being held under $50,000 bond...

Bedford County Financial Management Committee heard Tuesday night that the county has no money to bid on the former Cannon Chevrolet building on Lane Parkway, even if it were to be available at a bargain. Deputy Finance Director Paulette Arnold reported on behalf of Finance Director Robert Daniel...

Shelbyville's city council will hold an attorney-client meeting this afternoon to discuss the continuing impasse with the city's utility over the collapse of the underground flume system last year. According to city recorder Betty Lamb, an attorney from Nashville will meet with the council at 4 p.m. today...

Despite concerns about the possible reopening of the Quail Hollow Landfill, the company that owns the facility has informed the state's environmental agency of their intention to close it. Nearly two weeks ago, Bedford County's Solid Waste Committee voted to draft a letter that could be sent to state officials about concerns over the landfill near Raus being reopened if the Cedar Ridge Landfill in nearby Marshall County is closed...

If there's one topic about which I've written the most opinion columns in my 25 years at the T-G, it's pass-along e-mails (and, before that, faxes and chain letters). I know I've beaten the topic to death, and I feel like Don Quixote tilting at windmills. But if you'll indulge me one more time, I'd like to approach the topic from one specific angle, and hopefully in a new way...

Shelbyville Central girls basketball coach Lynn Burkey has resigned in order to pursue other opportunities. He informed the Eaglettes of his decision this morning. Burkey came to Shelbyville five years ago after former Central coach Rick Insell was named the head women's coach at Middle Tennessee State University...