Stories from Thursday, July 8, 2010

To The Editor: My sincere thanks to the Shelbyville Times-Gazette, John Carney and Jaime Welsh for the great coverage of the 13th annual Duck River Clean-up on June 26, 2010. The informative article and reminders prior to the Clean-up were invaluable in helping publicize this important environmental project. We are also very appreciative of your excellent coverage of the actual event...

Shelbyville Senior American Legion Post 23 took on Franklin for a doubleheader at Central High School on a hot, humid Wednesday and came away triumphant. Seth Brothers, Cade Seeley and Connor Tracy banged out a pair of hits apiece to lead Shelbyville to a 10-4 win in the first game...

If there's one thing mule and donkey aficionados share beside a love for long ears and braying, it's a sense of humor. Maybe that's why they like the long ears and braying so much ... The 19th annual Great Celebration Mule and Donkey Show opens today at the Calsonic Arena, and that sense of humor is evident in the T-shirts, the banners, the names of the animals, and the names of the farms and ranches from whence they come. ...

Drinking water is hardly a new topic of conversation in the Bell Buckle-Wartrace area, but in the last few weeks, there's been even more to talk about. Like quality. A Bell Buckle customer brought in a clear plastic bottle of water from her tap that was anything but clear. The water was tinged the color of rust -- and with good reason...

The Shelbyville Housing Authority has been awarded $649,508 by the department of Housing and Urban Development, some $27,000 more than they anticipated. The funding is to be used for making "major capital improvements" to public housing units and SHA director Hershel Thrasher said Wednesday that allocation of the funding could begin as early as this fall...

Lizzie M. Peoples of Shelbyville has announced her write-in candidacy for a seventh district seat on Bedford County Board of Commissioners in the Aug. 5 general election. Peoples and her husband Clyde have two daughters and three grandchildren and are members of Victory Baptist Church...

Jimmy Woodson has announced his candidacy for re-election to a fourth district seat on the Bedford County Board of Commissioners in the Aug. 5 general election. The district is composed of Bedford, Liberty and Wheel precincts. Woodson served as county mayor from 1998 until 2006. ...

Investigators aren't ready to say that a series of vehicle breakins, and one entry into a home, in Bedford County subdivisions are related. Vehicles were entered in The Meadows, off Old Tullahoma Highway just outside Shelbyville, and Center Church Road near Flat Creek last week and in Covered Bridge Estates near Bell Buckle on Monday night, according to the Bedford County Sheriff's Department...