Stories from Thursday, May 12, 2011

To the Editor: My family and I reside at 123 Wildwood Drive, Unionville. First of all let me say that this is my first "Letter to the Editor." It is regrettable that I feel it necessary to write this letter today. Two years ago the county constructed a new school near our home. Included in the school's construction is a "holding pond" designed to collect water which then drains through my and my neighbors property...

Johnnie Murlean Burgess, 79, of Shelbyville died Thursday at her home after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Bobby McGee officiating. Burial will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be held from 6-9 p.m. Saturday and beginning at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Edith L. VanderReyden, age 91, died Thursday at Lynchburg Care Center. Funeral services will be held at 5 p.m. Saturday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Mark Ashley officiating. Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. Burial will be Monday at St. Joseph Valley Cemetery in South Bend, Ind.

Dorothy Pearl Molder Darnell, 88, of Lewisburg died Wednesday in Columbia. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill with the Rev. Larry Chatman officiating. Burial will follow at Swanson Cemetery in Chapel Hill. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Friday.

For the second time in the District 9-A tournament, the base hit needed with runners in scoring position late in the game proved elusive for the top-seeded Cascade Champions. To its credit, third-seeded Eagleville made the clutch pitches necessary to stop any potential rallies in their tracks and held on late to defeat Cascade 6-3 in Wednesday afternoon's championship in Wartrace...

Mental evaluations are continuing for a Bedford County man charged with attempted murder. June 8 is the next scheduled court date for Christopher Vernor Locke, 42, Rippy Ridge Road, who faces charges of attempted first degree murder and eight counts of reckless endangerment...

Bedford County residents are reporting plenty of the 13-year cicadas. "My yard is full!" wrote Julie Keys on the Times-Gazette's Facebook page. "I have one tree with a few hundred on it!" "My house is crawling with them," wrote T-G web site user craftin_mom, "as is the telephone pole, all trees, and there are a quite a few greasy spots in the road where they are getting run over. They haven't started making noise, yet, though."...

Fayetteville authorities seized nearly two dozen phone card machines -- the same type taken by Shelbyville police two weeks ago. Police in Fayetteville conducted raids on five stores Wednesday and confiscated 28 gambling machines, 23 of which were phone card vending machines, according to a report from WTVF in Nashville...

Bedford County Board of Commissioners referred the possible closure of Bedford County Juvenile Detention Center back to the Law Enforcement and Workhouse Committee for further study. The county's financial management committee had placed the closure of the facility on Tuesday night's agenda...

A Shelbyville teenager has been charged with attempting to enter a game machine after breaking into a Madison Street convenience store late Monday night, police said. The boy, who is not being identified because of his age, is shown on video entering Fast Lane Market about 11:30 p.m. by breaking a door with a rock...

Ronnie Majors and Brian Ransom of the Bedford County Workhouse were busy Wednesday remodeling the downstairs entrance to the codes department at Shelbyville City Hall. A piece of plywood will be replaced with glass to cover a spot that once held an ATM machine when the building was a bank, according to Ed Dodson, planning and codes director. Dodson said the best part about the project is the free labor, with the glass costing around $1,100....

Debra Denise Moshier Cobb, 50, of the Clay Hill community died Thursday, May 5 in Elkhorn, Wis. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, May 13 at Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill with the Rev. Tim McGehee officiating. Burial will follow at Swanson Cemetery in Chapel Hill. Visitation will be held Thursday, May 12 from 6-8 p.m.