Stories from Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Janie Denise Moreno, 51, of Shelbyville died Wednesday, June 13, 2012, at her home after an extended illness. Memorial services will be held at 6 p.m. Friday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Don Harrison officiating. Per her request, her remains were cremated. Visitation will begin at 5 p.m.

The 67th Annual Wartrace High School Alumni Banquet was held April 28 at Cascade High School. Alumni were welcomed by Patsy Gregory, the 2011/2012 alumni association president. The attendees enjoyed lunch, visiting with former classmates, and viewing memorabilia provided by Carolyn Smotherman, association historian...

My Girls :) Meghan & Ashlyn Hays

Team poses for a picture after winning the championship game against Blue Moon Photography. GO SWIFT REPAIRS!!!

Shelbyville Central standout senior running back and defensive back Marquis Morton verbally committed to head coach Rick Stockstill and Middle Tennessee State's Blue Raiders on Tuesday night. The reigning District 8-AAA Player of the Year rushed for over 1,100 yards and scored 24 touchdowns last year for the Golden Eagles. ...

Once Shelbyville Jr. Legion Post 23 got the bats going, Franklin County could do little to slow the offensive onslaught in a pair of games Tuesday night. Between the two games, Post 23 banged out 16 hits and drove in 16 runs while defensively shutting down the visitors with some savvy pitching and routine defensive plays...

Bedford County Board of Commissioners stunned both School Supt. Ray Butrum and County Finance Director Robert Daniel by passing tax rates Tuesday night which will force the school system to cut $438,000 out of the proposed budget it submitted to the county last month...

Bedford County Board of Commissioners, on a point of order, determined Tuesday night that the commission did, in fact, appoint Ralph Edwards last month to the vacant 2nd District seat resigned by his father-in-law, Bobby Vannatta, and Edwards was sworn in and seated Tuesday night...

Loads of fun are planned for July 4 at H.V. Griffin Park, with plenty of activities and entertainment set. The opening ceremony kicks off at 5 p.m. with the National Anthem sung by Gary Haile, followed by a children's parade at 5:10. Children's games will be available from 6 to 8 p.m., with other activities to be a red, white and blue parade, a 15-foot water slide, a watermelon split and a dunking tank benefiting the Children's Miracle Network. Tickets to the slide and games are 25 cents...

A company which sold an x-ray machine to a local doctor has lost an appeal, meaning the physician will be able to keep the substantial damages awarded to him in 2010. In early 2009, Dr. Ron Fausnaught, Jr., filed a complaint against DMX Works, Inc. seeking damages arising out of his purchase of an x-ray machine...

A tank of waste cooking oil behind Whitt's Barbecue, Madison Street, was emptied over the weekend as part of an ongoing series of grease thefts, Shelbyville police were told. The used grease and oil has to be removed using a vacuum device, according to the restaurant's operations manager, and has been taken several times over the past few months...

One unhappy side effect of the growth of devices like tablets has been the increasingly complex package of data plans which some people must purchase -- a data plan for your smartphone, another data plan for your tablet, maybe even a third data plan if you have a 4G USB receiver for your laptop...

NASHVILLE -- NPC International, the world's largest Pizza Hut franchisee, has launched a campaign to fight cancer and support the American Cancer Society. Some 180 Pizza Hut stores in Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Missouri are participating in the campaign, which ends on July 6...

The Shelbyville-Bedford County Chamber of Commerce and Times-Gazette hosted a light reception Monday afternoon at the Chamber. The reception served as a first look of the magazine, Salute. Published by the Times-Gazette, the inaugural edition of Salute is a stitched and trimmed, high quality publication that will be used as a tool by the Chamber to attract visitors and highlight the positive attributes Bedford County offers...

Lynchburg resident Jim Pugh was one of seven Nashville recording engineers to receive the first annual Lifetime Achievement Award from the Nashville section of the Audio Engineering Society and the Country Music Hall of Fame. The award was presented June 3 in the Hall of Fame's Ford Theater in Nashville. The engineers honored were called "Music City Recording Pioneers." They covered a period of time in Nashville's recording history from post-World War II to the 1980s...