Stories from Thursday, September 20, 2012

UNIONVILLE -- It was a Shelbyville Central sweep in the team totals during the 15th Annual Community Invitational. Both Shelbyville girls and boys teams won convincingly in the team totals with the girls nearly posting a perfect score, and finishing with an 18...

William Earl "Bill" Arrasmith, 58, of Unionville died Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 at Heritage Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at Gowen-Smith Chapel. Burial will follow at Pressgrove Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Sunday.

Earl Mason Jones, 89 of Shelbyville died Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 at the V.A. Medical Center in Nashville. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday at Gowen-Smith Chapel with David Bradley officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4-6 p.m. Saturday.

The Bell Buckle dog napping as the sun goes down on Wednesday afternoon.

Bedford County Animal Control wants to raise its adoption fee from $63 to $65 in order to pay for the cost of an ID tag to be given with each adopted pet. The tag will be different from the tag indicating that a pet has its rabies vaccination. Animal control director Chris Tucker made the request during a meeting of Bedford County Board of Commissioners' law enforcement committee. The committee voted to recommend the change to the full commission...

Delbert Ray Sims, 35, of Unionville died Monday, Sept. 10, 2012 at his residence. He was cremated per his wishes and no services are being planned at this time. Gowen-Smith Funeral Chapel is assisting the family.

Evan shows off his new jacket he got from Goodwill before heading to story hour in Shelbyville.

Two weeks ago the Cascade Champions (4-1, 2-0 9-A) were dealt their first loss of the season by Wayne County. Needing a shot in the arm to put Cascade back into the win column, the Champs got exactly what they needed with a 39-0 win over the Huntland Hornets last week...

State Rep. Pat Marsh and his wife Mary donated $1,000 to Cascade Elementary on Monday to help fund the teachers' trip to Washington, D.C. to accept the school's national Blue Ribbon award. Principal Martha Fisher said an additional $9,000 is needed. Fourth grade teacher Beth Smith coordinated the campaign. From left, front, are Smith's students Johnathan Garcia Padilla, Jay Hall, Hunter Palmer, Carmen Ray, McKayla Swain and Alex Scruggs. Back, from left, Rep. Marsh, Smith, Sherry Crawford and Fisher.

After seeing an early lead slip away, Shelbyville Central found a way to salvage a 2-2 tie with visiting Columbia in a District 8-AAA The Eaglettes (4-6-3, 2-0-2 8-AAA) remain undefeated in district play after playing even with Tullahoma last week. "You hate to see it end up in a tie but it's better than taking a loss," Shelbyville coach Neal Gordon said...

A Shelbyville mother and her family have been forced to move from their Cherokee Trail following a Sunday night fire. "We don't have anywhere to go," Tina Martineau said Wednesday morning of herself and her three children, ages 9, 7 and 6. "The Red Cross put us up in a hotel for three days, This is the third day."...

Henry Feldhaus III has announced his candidacy for the Ward 1 seat on Shelbyville City Council in the Nov. 6 general election. Feldhaus, a former two-term Shelbyville mayor (1987 to 1995) and council member (1981 to 1987), decided not to seek reelection as mayor in 1995 after a self-imposed two-term limit...

WARTRACE -- At first glance from the final score in Cascade's 4-0 loss to Coffee County looks like a completely one-sided affair. In reality, it was far from that. Cascade has had a tough week in the win-loss columns, but has faced tough teams with the hopes of preparing for a strong finish against district teams like Page and Community...

WARTRACE -- The Cascade Middle Lady Champions finished their 2012 campaign just as strong as they started--undefeated. The Lady Champs picked up an impressive 2-0 win over arch-rival Community on Wednesday afternoon to finish the season 7-0. While it was a low-scoring affair, Cascade got goals when it needed them most from Elli Wilson and Kristen Heath...

A federal judge has set a schedule of deadlines concerning a lawsuit filed by the county's Emergency Communication District (ECD) and other districts against a telephone company over 911 charges. Chief U.S. District Judge Curtis L. Collier has set Jan. 28, 2013 as the latest date when mediation should begin in the suit against BellSouth, now known as AT&T...

State Sen. Jim Tracy on Wednesday joined wireless provider AT&T to bring attention to a serious road-safety problem, urging students at Shelbyville Central High School to pledge to stop texting while driving. AT&T, its employees and other supporters are calling on all drivers to go to www.itcanwait.com to take the no-texting-and-driving pledge. The pledge effort is part of the company's public awareness campaign aimed directly at stopping the dangerous practice of texting while driving...

It's always easy, when you're not happy about some tax-related situation, to say that there's wasteful spending going on. The truth of the matter is that, yes, I'm sure there is wasteful spending going on. Any organization, large or small, has waste and inefficiency. There are always ways to keep improving, to do things better for less money. That's true of government, or business, or household finances...

Billy Joe Bain Jr. and Aimee Lea Bain of Shelbyville are proud to announce the birth of a baby boy, Caiden Lee Bain. Caiden Lee was born on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012 in Murfreesboro. He weighed 6 pounds. His grandparents are Joan and Michael Molder, Steven Lee Taylor Sr., Margaret Bain, and Billy and Teresa Bain...

Kyle and Meagan Turnbow of Shelbyville are proud to announce the birth of a baby girl, Hannah Marie Turnbow. Hannah Marie was born on Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 in Murfreesboro. She weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces. Her grandparents are Drew and Susan Hayes, and Bobby and Ann Turnbow, all of Shelbyville...

MARLI LOVES POSING FOR PICTURES. NANA LOVES YOU BABY GIRL! LOVE NANA & PAPA KULICK

THIS IS MARLI ANMARIELINES BAUMAN DAUGHTER OF MIKE AND KAYLA BAUMAN, BIG SISTER OF BAYLI SAIGE BAUMAN. AND ALEXANDER RAYMOND KULICK, SON OF JACOB AND RACHEAL KULICK. BIG BROTHER OF IVAN ROBERT KULICK. POSING FOR NANA. NANA & PAPA KULICK LOVE YOU!...

THIS IS IVAN ROBERT KULICK ON LEFT SON OF JACOB AND RACHEAL KULICK, AND LITTLE BROTHER OF ALEXANDER RAYMOND KULICK. ON THE RIGHT IS BAYLI SAIGE BAUMAN, DAUGHTER OF MIKE AND KAYLA BAUMAN, AND LITTLE SISTER OF MARLI ANMARIELINES BAUMAN. WE LOVE YOU BOTH!...