Stories from Sunday, October 3, 2010

My father always had a funny obsession with his refrigerator. He's been gone almost a year now, and though his smiling face will never fade in my memory, that darn refrigerator continues to haunt me. My mother and father divorced several years before my father became ill a little more than a year ago, and so he became pretty accustomed to eating out most nights of the week. ...

Remember the book, poster and coffee cup logo phenomenon "All I really need to know, I learned in kindergarten?" It included things such as: This was all very nice and touchy-feely New Age smiley kind of stuff, and the author was right -- all we really do need in life we learned in kindergarten. (Especially the afternoon nap thing.)...

Local adoption worker Sandra Roberts enjoyed every bit of what she called her 15 minutes of fame last month. A trip to the Vanderbilt chancellor's home, a sleek black gown and nail polish called "I'm not really a waitress" had this self-described country girl living the high life...

Two men caught in the act of burglarizing a vehicle got away after the owner fell Thursday night, police said. The rear door of the victim's SUV was open and inside lights on when he returned to a Deery Street building at 6:45 p.m. after being away for approximately 45 minutes, police were told...

Two men can be grateful today after escaping serious injury in an unusual two-truck accident Friday morning on Kingree Road in Shelbyville. Telephone worker Byron Carter of Fayetteville was in the lift bucket of an AT&T truck when it was struck in the rear by a pickup truck, Shelbyville police said...

October offers a wide variety of fun family outings in Bedford County, from the Webb School Art & Craft Fair to the pumpkin patch and corn maze at Cedar Rock. But you don't necessarily have to go out in the country to have a good time. The square in Shelbyville has several fun events lined up for the month...

An ongoing lawsuit against Shelbyville over a proposed rock quarry has now entered the federal court arena, with the plaintiffs demanding no less than $10 million. Norma and Tommy Wright, Wright Paving Co. Inc., and Custom Stone LLC filed suit in United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee in Winchester against the city, the board of zoning appeals, the planning commission, and codes and planning director Ed Dodson "in his official capacity and individually."...

It may have been a 37-13 district loss to Huntland, but the Community Vikings will remember Friday night's clash as a milestone game where they grew up as a team and left everything on the field from start to finish. The Community offense clicked and the short-handed defense played its heart out despite being on the field an inordinate amount of time...

Cascade showed Friday night that if a team wants to take the District 9-A title away from the Wartrace/Bell Buckle school, it better be ready for a fight. The Champions held district-leading and 10th-ranked Eagleville to a total of 181 yards and intercepted three passes en route to a 7-6 victory on homecoming at The Stable...

When I was in high school my Dad went to Washington, D.C. for a few weeks to school. When he returned he had bought two Chinese cookbooks. So Mom experimented with the recipes and we started having really great Chinese food at home. One of our favorites was Kung Pao Chicken and it has become a family classic...