Stories from Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The Times-Gazette shared some good news with 12 lucky winners of the Big $1,000 Gas Up for Summer Gas Giveaway. This year, 1,027 entered the contest. Jordan Phelps of Shelbyville and Brenda Blackburn of Christiana each won a $250 gift card to BP. Last month, the T-G published a special section that included advertisements containing the Big $1000 logo. ...

Bedford County Board of Commissioners approved new county commission districts drawn as a result of 2010 Census figures. The "one person, one vote" rule, affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1960s, means that in a district-based legislative body, each district should be as close in population to the others as possible. Otherwise, citizens in underpopulated districts would have a greater say in government than those from overpopulated districts...

NASHVILLE -- Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, an annual non-competitive five-mile walk to raise money for the American Cancer Society, will celebrate its 10th anniversary with this year's event, planned for Saturday, Oct. 15, starting at LP Field in downtown Nashville...

An anxious search turned into a happy reunion Tuesday afternoon for a Bedford County family after a teenager turned up after being missing for nearly a day. Daniel Rohlman, 16, had been missing since Monday evening after he left a family gathering by the Duck River and never returned...

Kenneth Oliver Lankford, age 8 days, of Shelbyville died Monday at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Dr. Drew Hayes officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m.

Henry Lee Lynch, age 82, of Shelbyville died Tuesday in Shelbyville. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m Friday at Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill with the Rev. Tony Billions and Mike Hannah officiating. Burial, with military honors, will be at Wheeler Cemetery near Chapel Hill. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Thursday.