Stories from Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Cascade Middle dropped its season opener on the baseball diamond 11-3 to Westwood Middle in Manchester on Tuesday. The Champions took a 3-2 lead in the third inning over their Mid-South Conference foe on a single by Heath Presley that plated Chandler Sulcer and Chandler Monajjem, who both reached via base on balls...

The Community Middle Viqueens lost a heartbreaker in their season opener by a score of 8-7 against Westwood on a briskly cool Tuesday night despite outhitting their opponent by a 10-6 margin. Westwood took an early 2-0 lead in the first but the Viqueens battled back with a run to cut the margin to one on an RBI single by Sarah Pierce to scored Nikki Davis who lead off with a base hit...

The county could be one step closer to a property maintenance code that would regulate the appearance of residential properties. "I put this on the agenda because we have a growing problem with empty houses, vacant houses, foreclosed houses," said Bedford County Director of Planning and Zoning Chris White at the planning commission's meeting Tuesday night...

According to news reports, as many as 150,000 users of Google's free e-mail service GMail discovered on Sunday that their accounts had been wiped clean. One of the benefits that made GMail so attractive to begin with was that its generous storage capacity -- later matched by competitors such as Yahoo! and Hotmail -- allowed you to keep all of your mail, hiding it using an "archive" button, and then search through it any time you wanted...

I had a surprise birthday party. Okay, it wasn't really a party, just a lazy day at home watching old movies and reading, but there were a lot of surprises! My oldest son actually called me -- on my birthday -- for no other reason than to wish me a happy birthday...

If you like live concerts and if you enjoy the Beatles' music in particular, Shelbyville Central High School's theater is the place to be on Friday night as Eaglepalooza 2011 takes a new twist from the original spinoff of the video game "Rock Band" to live performances from Central students and local performers...

Shelbyville has 90 days to find a new city manager after Michael Dill announced his resignation Tuesday evening. Before business began at last night's study session, Dill passed out his resignation letter....

Austin Bryant and Austin Cagle combined on a three-hitter to lead the Community Middle Vikings to a 4-3 baseball win over visiting Cornersville on Tuesday night. The Vikings utilized base hits by Drake Schuls, Ryan Fears, and Tyler Broiles sandwiched around a walk to Darien Pride to score four runs in the second inning to take a 4-1 lead...

In another about-face, Shelbyville's city council is now considering a property tax hike instead of doing away with garbage service. But how much that tax hike would be will not be known until the budget is drawn up in June. The ordinance to eliminate garbage pickup was scheduled for second reading next Thursday, but it has now been scrapped...