Stories from Friday, June 29, 2012

My husband Patrick and neighbor John have worked really hard this year to make this year one of the best gardens we've had. Our corn is over 12ft high already and we have bags full of veggies on a daily basis. Good work guys. MD

There's no burn ban yet, and the fireworks show for Shelbyville is still on, but officials are urging caution as the area gets hotter and drier. Blistering conditions have left middle Tennessee parched, and neighboring communities such as Murfreesboro and Tullahoma have instituted burn bans, but Shelbyville hasn't reached that point yet...

The Bedford County Board of Education must find a way to cut $438,000 from its budget for the upcoming school year after a split vote by the Bedford County Commission on Thursday night. The commission upheld the tax allocation rate passed at its June 12 meeting. That allocation gives the school system 96 cents, six cents less than the original allocation of $1.02...

Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past 24 hours, you've likely at least heard of the Supreme Court's ruling to uphold the Affordable Care Act. "Obamacare," as it's popularly -- or unpopularly -- called, was declared constitutional when the Supreme Court ruled that the government may levy its taxation powers to push people to buy health insurance...

The T-G wanted to know how area residents felt about the Supreme Court's ruling to uphold the healthcare overhaul. By beating the block on the public square, phoning local politicians and posting a poll on the T-G website, this is what we found. The online poll reported 87 of 107 voters, as of early this morning, in opposition to the ruling...

Shelbyville's planning commission took care of business quickly Thursday night, approving the site plan for the city's new CVS Pharmacy. The business plans to move from its current location at Big Springs Shopping Center on Lane Parkway to 825 N. Main St., at the corner of Colloredo Boulevard...

It's that time of year. Doe white-tailed deer are birthing fawns left and right. It seems that with a statewide population of somewhere around 900,000, one can't go into the outdoors without seeing a fawn lying around waiting on its mother to show up for its next feeding. Nursing does do not spend as much time with their fawns as one may think. This is a tactic does use to keep predators away from their young...

Bedford County resident Mark Twain Clemens has announced his candidacy for the United States Senate. A resident of the Longview community since 1993, Clemens has worked 15 years as an explosive engineer for Tennessee Excavating. His platform is to reduce the $15 trillion dollar deficit by cutting government spending and raise tariffs to a reasonable amount...

Crews with the Tennessee Department of Transportation have begun clearing trees and putting in fill to get ready for nearly $4 million worth of bridge replacement work over the Duck River at the edge of the Shelbyville city limits. Earlier this year, bids for the Sydney "Bud" McGrew Memorial Bridge on State Highway 130 were awarded to Concrete Structures, Inc., at a price of $3,821,199.68. Crews at the site told the T-G that work on the bridge would like begin in the fall and TDOT has said that the estimated completion date is October 2013. (T-G Photo by Brian Mosely)

For the second meet in a row, the Shelbyville Sharks were able to string together enough individual wins for a 380-227 victory over McMinnville on Thursday evening. The Sharks (3-2) will go for three in a row on Monday against Lawrenceburg. Mixed 8-Under 100 Meter Medley Relay...

It's about time the college officials made the decision to go to some form of a playoff in the postseason. After all the hoopla about the BCS being the perfect system and whatnot, it's refreshing to know the FBS brass have settled on a system. In 2014, we'll finally get a glimpse of what so many of us have hoped for years -- a four team playoff...

Robert N. "Bob" Potts, 84, of Copper Canyon, Texas, a native of Shelbyville, died Wednesday, June 27, 2012 in Dallas, Texas. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Mulkey-Mason Funeral Home in Lewisville, Texas. Burial will follow at noon at Oaklawn Cemetery in Decatur, Texas. Visitation will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. today.