Stories from Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Hillery F. Crosslin, 91, of Shelbyville died Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 at Heritage Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with Geoffrey Giesemann officiating. Burial will follow at Hollywood Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. Thursday.

Willie Mae Lovvorn, 87, of Shelbyville died suddenly Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Bill Doak officiating. Burial will follow at Cothron Cemetery in Rover. Visitation will begin at noon.

Arthur S. Leebrick, 90, of Shelbyville died Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Geoff Giesemann and Russ Countess officiating. Burial, with full military honors, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Thursday.

Helen Pauline Frazier, 67, of Murfreesboro died Monday at Middle Tennessee Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at noon Thursday at Gowen-Smith Chapel with Tommy Dye officiating. Burial will follow at Hoo Doo Cemetery in Coffee County. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Wednesday.

Norman V. Carden, 77, of Shelbyville died Tuesday at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Hillcrest Funeral Home.

Where are the rebels in Tennessee and what are they doing? If you read the front page of the Dec. 7, 1862 edition of the New York Herald during the Civil War, you would have learned that thousands of Confederate troops were massing south of a small town called Shelbyville...

While many of us have made New Year's resolutions, Shelbyville's leaders are doing the same, laying out their goals for the coming year. For 2012, city manager Jay Johnson said he wants Shelbyville to look at what they're doing, how it's done and if there are things that can be done better or changed...

A survey of Times-Gazette readers selected the death of Korley Davis as the top local news story of 2011. Davis, a sixth grader at Liberty School, was known to many in the community and had a special connection to Shelbyville Central High School through her mother, a teacher there. Her death in February, following battles with leukemia and lung problems, touched many county-wide...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam announced Dec. 21 that there will be both an external and internal review of the new teacher evaluation system. He has charged the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) with conducting an independent, third-party evaluation and is asking the state Department of Education to formalize a review process, which the department has already begun...

Investigators are searching for a man who allegedly cashed payroll checks under various names at grocery stores in Shelbyville, Tullahoma and Chattanooga. The man cashed a Goodwill payroll check and presented a state identification card bearing the name "Henry Bell" at a Shelbyville grocery store on Friday, according to a police report filed by officer Gregg Loyd...

The first half of the season has been one filled with ups and downs for Shelbyville, but as of late, the Eaglettes have come on strong, despite dropping their final two games in the Hickman County Above the Rim Invitational last week. In the tournament last week, Central got a career-defining performance from Kelsie Smith, who hit 33 points to power the Eaglettes to the 55-48 win over Dickson County...

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I think the BCS is a sham for matching up the teams that should be playing for a national title. HOWEVER, the matchups we got on Monday in the various bowl games around the country have possibly provided some of the most exciting college football we've seen in years...

Funeral services for Kim Reed, 32, of Memphis, formerly of Shelbyville, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Concordia Lutheran Church in Jackson. Visitation with the family will be from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at the church and beginning at 10 a.m. Thursday. A graveside service will follow at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Shelbyville. Doak-Howell Funeral Home is handling local arrangements.