Stories from Sunday, May 27, 2012

Some things just work out, and the best explanation available is that it was fated to be so. Beth Peissig and Brian Pyrdum meeting nearly seven years ago is one such situation. Peissig had gone to high school in Atlanta, while Pyrdum was a Shelbyville native...

Before I became involved with the American Cancer Society Relay For Life, I had a very dim idea about what it was. Most people are familiar with the concept of a fund-raising run or walk -- a volunteer participates in some challenging event, and friends and neighbors give to charity on that walker's behalf. I think I thought Relay For Life was something like that...

Bob Bomar of Shelbyville, founder and retired long-time operator of Shelbyville Municipal Airport, is a World War II veteran who saw action in the skies above both the European and Pacific theaters. Bomar wanted to learn how to fly. He went to college at Cumberland University in Lebanon so that he could take its very first flight course. He earned his private pilot's license his first year in college...

It was only the first day of the Spring Fun Show, but the seats looked sparsely full. The Champions Arena adjacent to Calsonic Arena was a different story, however. Trainers, owners, media members and inspectors from SHOW and the USDA congested the warm-up ring, all looking for different things...

Shelbyville Regional Planning Commission, asked by Bedford County Planning Commission for its input, has recommended against rezoning property at 2506 U.S. 231 North for an office supply store. The city planning commission met Thursday night. Grady Cunningham, owner of Celebration 2000, has been trying for years to move his business from rental space within Shelbyville to property he owns north of town. ...

"It's not worth getting killed over," an armed man told a Springdale Avenue resident Thursday night as he demanded his money. "So give me your wallet or I will shoot you." The resident complied, handing over his wallet, Shelbyville police said. According to Detective Sam Jacobs, the wallet -- which contained $100 -- and robber haven't been seen since...

Paramedics treat Marie Moody, 31, of North Carolina, sitting in the back of the truck, after she lost control of her vehicle (right) and plunged down a small embankment on West Jackson Street early Friday afternoon. Moody is a former Shelbyville resident who was visiting her parents, police said. The man sitting near Moody in the truck talking on a cell phone was also a passenger, officers said, but they had not obtained his name. Both were taken to Heritage Medical Center. (T-G Photo by David Melson)

A man accused of selling marijuana was arrested at a Cedar River Road residence early Friday, police said. David Moore told officers they'd find marijuana in a kitchen drawer, officer Jody Shelton's report said. Three bags of marijuana, a bag containing four Trazodone hydrochloride pills, scales, a grinder, two straws containing "white powder residue" and bag containing smaller plastic bags were confiscated from the drawer by Shelton...

Editor's Note: Ike Farrar of Flat Creek spends a lot of his days musing about World War II. He sometimes comes out with very special stories. Charmagne Farrar, Ike's daughter-in-law, took his latest one and wrote it down in story form. "Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget -- lest we forget (The Five Nations by Rudyard Kipling)." This is one of Ike Farrar's favorite quotes. ...

I was meeting with a group of ladies from my church this week. As the meeting ended, I stopped a few of them. "Could we talk a moment? I need you to pray with me about something." I had been carrying this concern underneath my Brave Face for many weeks. ...

Choosing a college to attend during your senior year in high school is no small task. Throw in the complexity of finding a school to participate in collegiate athletics in, and that makes it even more difficult. But for Cascade graduates Emily Lewis and Kayla and Rachel Carden, it wasn't so much difficult in deciding on Martin Methodist, but rather finding a place that felt just like home...

Robert and Vicki Boswell, and Donna and Adrian Anderson, all of Tullahoma, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Linda Gabbard of Tullahoma to John Robinson of Shelbyville. The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Mary and the late Howard D. Boswell of Tullahoma. She is employed by The Tullahoma News...

The Bell Buckle Chamber of Commerce didn't have to go far to find the design for the shirts for this year's 18th Annual RC Cola & Moon Pie Festival. It's no secret that Bell Buckle is home to several artists, but what might've been hidden is the talent of The Webb School student Stefan Shelley...

The American Cancer Society is seeking volunteers for its third nationwide cancer prevention study. The new research study is called the Cancer Prevention Study - 3 (CPS-3). The American Cancer Society's Epidemiology Research Program is inviting men and women between the ages of 30 and 65 years who have no personal history of cancer to join the study. The ultimate goal is to enroll at least 300,000 adults from various racial/ethnic backgrounds from across the U.S...

I have always loved to read. I can get lost for a season in a good book. Some of my earliest memories were of Mom reading to my brother and sister and me. We'd all gather around Mom on the sofa or the chair and listen as she read to us from some fantasy or adventure. Mom's lap was always a safe place, and I particularly loved it there with a good book...