Stories from Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Elmo Arnold, Sr., 69, of Indianapolis, formerly of Shelbyville, died Monday Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Bird Street Church of Christ. Burial will follow at Mount Ararat Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Nelson & Sons Memorial Chape is in charge of arrangements.

Was coming home from work one morning and noticed this amazing hawk sitting on a mailbox,without a worry to the world it seemed.The speeding vehicles going by didn`t faze it at all....so I turned around and went back and got a pic off with my camera phone.I was only 3 feet away when I took the photo...the hawk stood his ground....didnt fly off,just looked at me as to say"Whats up"?Was going to snap another but as luck would have it,here came some traffic.The pic was taken on Normandy RD...

Ralph Dorsey Quillen, Sr., 92, of Shelbyville died Wednesday at Christian Care Center of Bedford County. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Jennings and Ayers Funeral Home in Murfreesboro with Dr. Lenny Farmer officiating. Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Murfreesboro. Visitation will begin at noon.

It's that time of year again -- when we're thankful for what we have and mindful of what others don't have. And this year, there are plenty of those who "don't." City Outreach Ministries is one agency that aims to help locals during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays...

Billy Joe "Buck" Jones, 73, of Cumming, Ga, who was originally from Normandy, died Sunday. Memorial services will be held at Ingram Funeral Home in Cumming at 2 p.m. EST Thursday and at 2 p.m. Saturday at College Street Baptist Church Fellowship Hall in Tullahoma.

Ginger takes over my bed when I get up

Due to the recent water rate increase for Wartrace customers, a review of the town's water will be conducted by the University of Tennessee's Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS). A number of complaints have been received from customers about a rate hike which took effect in July, and the board of mayor and alderman have asked MTAS to do a rate study...

U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced last week that a bipartisan group of 10 senators, including Alexander's Tennessee colleague Bob Corker, are introducing legislation that would, if it passes, give states the option to collect sales taxes on all online purchases...

After months of discussion, Bedford County Board of Commissioners' courthouse and county property committee is finally ready to limit oversize vehicles from parking in the interior lot at the courthouse. A straight line will be painted across the ends of the existing parking spaces. Vehicles that fit within that line, without pulling up onto the curb or the concrete island which surrounds the lot, will be allowed. Others will be subject to a $25 fine...

Shelbyville Central fell behind early before settling down to claim a 54-49 win over host Brentwood Academy in a TSSAA Hall of Fame Game on Tuesday night. Brentwood Academy scored 12 unanswered points to start the game on the way to a 17-7 lead at the end of the first quarter...

In a preseason interview, Cascade coach Chad Spencer said that this 2011-2012 Lady Champion team would be an exciting squad to watch. He wasn't kidding. Cascade (1-0) opened the new season with an exciting 49-44 win against the Harpeth Lady Indians (0-1) on Tuesday, which essentially was decided in the final minutes...

Standing toe-to-toe against a team with a big height advantage is never an easy task. But that's just what the Cascade Champions did in their season opener against the Harpeth Indians. Cascade was able to hang around for most of the first quarter with the towering Indians, but a series of four three-pointers broke the momentum by the Champs, and allowed Harpeth to cruise to the 67-33 victory...

CORNERSVILLE -- Austin Thurber, Taylor Paschal and Jake Leverette combined for 40 points and the Community Vikings won going away in a dominating 59-38 win on Tuesday night. Paschal and Thurber came out smoking with a 3-pointer apiece in the opening minutes and Logan Pierce and Blake Fanning netted four each to pace a 17-4 cushion after one period...

The Shelbyville Central High School is currently involved in a great canned food drive in the month of November. The school has been doing the great canned food drive for the past many years dating back to at least 1985. Shelbyville Central has had many themes, such as superheroes, Christmas, and Wizard of Oz. The theme of this year's canned food drive is Disney....

CORNERSVILLE­­--The Community Viqueens opened the season with a very competitive 48-38 loss in a game that was not decided until the closing minutes. The Purple and Gold played the home team to a standstill in the first two quarters as the lead changed hands seven times before closing in a 12-all tie after one period and with the score knotted at 20 as the teams left the floor for intermission...

Webb had a hot start to its 2011-2012 season opener, but a second half rally lifted MTCS to the 48-36 victory. "I was proud of our effort. We competed the entire game," said Webb coach Jeff Mitchell. Webb jumped out to a 12-10 lead by the end of the first, but stalled a bit in the second while MTCS exploded for 17 to hold a 27-15 advantage at the half...

Google has scheduled a press event for today, reportedly to launch a new music download service. By the time you read this, details should be available, but supposedly one hook of the new service is that if you buy a music track from Google, you can post a link to it on your Google+ account which your friends can use to sample the song once. ...