Stories from Sunday, October 23, 2011

My son David showed me this bubble, so i had to take a photo. Notice the concentration in his face.

A 4-month-old child was killed and two of her siblings were critically injured late Saturday morning in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of State Route 437 (the Shelbyville bypass) and Railroad Avenue east of Shelbyville. Bedtbaidy Petatan-Rojas and the other two children were all ejected from a small Volkswagen Jetta, State Trooper Barry Qualls said. ...

Moody's Investors Services has assigned a rating of "Aa3" to the city of Shelbyville's $3.2 million in refunding bonds for the city's power, water and sewer system. City manager Jay Johnson termed it as a "solid, middle of the road rating for a city of our size."...

Amaria Smith is a student at Community Middle School, whose parent-teacher organization needed a boost. Her father John is an area native, a businessman in the process of launching a national brand, and one vested in growing his community. So when Susan Haynes, president of the school's parent-teacher organization, approached Smith to help, he knew baking cookies wasn't an option...

State Sen. Jim Tracy (R-Shelbyville) released figures from the Office of Legislative Budget Analysis on Tuesday showing that Bedford County will receive $80 million from the state during the current state fiscal year, which began July 1; that's up from $75 million in 2010-2011 and $68 million in 2009-2010...

FRANKLIN -- In an uncharacteristic performance of their season so far, the Shelbyville Central Golden Eagles (6-3) struggled to mount much of any offense against Centennial (5-4) in Friday night's 35-7 loss on the road. The Eagles, who are in the midst of their best season in years, were playing for a possible opening-round home game in the upcoming state playoffs...

The Cascade Champs were just a few inches from clinching a crucial win over Forrest in a hard-fought battle in overtime on Friday night. After Jared Carkuff split the uprights to put Cascade up 20-17 in overtime, Forrest took over the ball on the 10-yard line...

LYNCHBURG -- What looked to be a very promising start to extending their season, the Community Vikings played smash-mouth football to lead 7-6 at the half during Friday's game against Moore County, but the second 28 minutes turned into unmitigated disaster fueled by five turnovers as the Raiders scored 35 unanswered points to win 42-7...

Webb's rivalry match up against SAS on Friday afternoon was the tale of two halves. SAS piled up the points in the first half, while Webb made halftime adjustments and orchestrated an unanswered 21-point comeback in the second half. Although Webb rallied, the comeback was stopped just shy of downing SAS, who held on to win 26-21...

Dear Editor: John Carney's article (Times-Gazette, Oct. 20) on retaining the Tennessee Open Meetings Act, or "Sunshine Law" exactly as written and not amended is right on. This law was enacted to preclude the recent covert undertakings attempted by Williamson County Commissioner and president of Tennessee County Commissioner Association Bob Barnwell to amend the law and hold meetings behind closed doors wherever and whenever he chooses and exclude the public...

Four members of the Central High School Class of 1938 gathered for a reunion recently to reminisce about those glorious days of their youth and to remember departed friends and classmates. When they and their 69 classmates graduated 73 years ago, they left to go to college or to work or to start families...

Barbecued Cornish game hen is one of my favorites and I have a favorite made-from-scratch Southwestern style barbecue sauce that anyone can tailor to suit his own tastes. I clipped the basic recipe, which I have adapted, from a magazine 30 years ago and just thinking about it makes me want to fire up the grill...

I was driving down I-24 the other day on my way home from Murfreesboro and I slowed down to let someone in a pick-up truck enter the lane in front of me. As they merged, they proceeded to show some obscene hand gestures to me. In fact, not only did the driver wave rudely at me but so did the passenger. I got flipped-off in duplicate! I got the double whammy!...

You may have noticed the new CVS Coupon Policy that came out recently. There have been many questions as to what this new policy means for the couponer. First of all, let me say that up until now we have not had a printable copy of the CVS Corporate Policy, so don't let this new policy alarm you. We can be glad they are now hearing the requests of the couponer for an in-hand policy. There are a few things, however, that we want to take a special look at...