Stories from Monday, January 10, 2011

"If folks can stay home, they need to stay home." That was the word this morning from Bedford County Emergency Management Agency director Scott Johnson....

As schools throughout the area remain closed today, Vanderbilt physicians urge caution as children go sledding. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, thousands of children are treated at emergency rooms, doctors' offices and clinics as a result of sledding, snow tubing and tobogganing-related injuries...

An inscription on the wall of a New York City post office states, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." For Bedford County's postal workers, this morning's six-inch snow is an inconvenience, but that informal creed holds true...

Ester "Butch" Vinson Jr., 87, of Nashville and Flat Creek, died Saturday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Phillips Robinson Funeral Home in Nashville with burial following at Spring Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Monday.

Albert Douglas Johnson, 86, of Unionville died Saturday at Christian Care Center of Shelbyville after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with H. A. Beasley officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m.