Stories from Friday, May 20, 2011

Summer's favorite pastime will once again be available for 13-15 year old baseball players across Bedford County. Bedford County Majors Baseball League will hold signups from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at the youth baseball field entrance in H.V. Griffin Park...

Two of the better Class A baseball programs meet up when Cascade visits Summertown in a sectional later today. "We've just got to go Friday and be really ready to play and prepared to play a good baseball game," Cascade coach Brandon Bassham said. "This time of year, no matter who you play and where you play, you've got to play well to advance."...

Grady Cunningham, who tried unsuccessfully in 2007 and again in 2008-2009 to have his property on U.S. 231 North rezoned as commercial, will return to the June meeting of Bedford County Board of Commissioners. The commission's rules and legislative committee voted Tuesday night to place Cunningham's request on the June agenda. Bedford County Planning Commission has already recommended against it...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' office of the inspector general has subpoenaed 71 patient medical records from Heritage Medical Center in Shelbyville, which is owned by Franklin-based Community Health Systems Inc., in connection with its investigation of a CHS-owned hospital in Texas...

Torn, muddied and ripped but still carrying lifetimes of memories, they landed across the landscape of southern and eastern Bedford County. Photos blown over 200 miles from homes in northwestern Alabama and east central Mississippi during the massive April 27 tornado outbreak fell from the sky several hours later over southeastern Middle Tennessee...

Excited. Nervous. Sad. Glad. Those are the emotions that will be rocketing around Calsonic Arena tonight and tomorrow as the Bedford County classes of 2011 make their ceremonial march into the next phase of their lives. Hundreds of mortarboards will sail into the air in the next 48 hours, each belonging to a different student with a different dream, from medical school to mechanic to the military...

It's official: Dr. Ray Butrum will be Bedford County's new school superintendent. Bedford County Board of Education, which voted earlier this month to negotiate a contract with Butrum after selecting him from among 12 applicants and four finalists for the position, approved a three-year contract Thursday night. Both parties signed it immediately following the school board meeting...

John Kevin Wilson, 46, of Boone, N.C., formerly of Shelbyville, died Thursday at Carolina Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., from complications from an accident two years ago. A private service will be held in Shelbyville at a later date. Doak-Howell Funeral Home is serving the family.

Connie Elaine Price, 53, of Shelbyville, died Friday at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Lester Hawkins officiating. Burial will follow at Hopper Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Saturday.

Bobby Ray Quick, 57, of Normandy died Wednesday. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. EDT Sunday at True Gospel Emmanuel Holiness Church, Wallace, S.C. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5-7 p.m. EDT Saturday at Kiser Funeral Home, Cheraw, S.C.

Martha Jo Lemmon Hagood, 68, of Unionville died Friday at her home. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill with the Rev. Kenneth Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Cothran Cemetery in Rover. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Sunday.