Stories from Thursday, September 27, 2012

Mildred Donegan Harris, 92, of Shelbyville died Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. Graveside services were held at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 28 at Union Cemetery in Dickson with Jim Smith officiating. Dickson Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Bertha Renee West, 41, of Shelbyville died Thursday morning, Sept. 27, 2012 at Heritage Medical Center after a brief illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Allen Brown officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. Saturday.

As many as 50 representatives of various law enforcement and rescue agencies spent Thursday doing yet another search of the rubble from a burned Kingdom Road home. Their painstaking hand-sifting of ashes and debris for any remnants of the bodies of Chloie Leverette, 9, and Gage Daniel, 7, was to no avail, authorities said...

As cadaver dogs searched Wednesday afternoon for the remains of 9-year-old Chloie Leverette and 7-year-old Gage Daniel in the burned rubble of their home on Kingdom Road near Rover, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said the children may be alive...

Chloie Leverette is described as having brown hair and hazel eyes, standing 4-feet-8 and weighing 75 points, according to a TBI press release. Gage Daniel is described as having brown hair and hazel eyes, standing 4 feet tall and weighing 50 pounds...

Savannah Burchett of Shelbyville performed with The Webb School string ensemble during Parents' Weekend earlier this month. Presentations by Head of School Ray Broadhead, Director of Admissions Julie Harris, Ronda Spivey and Natalie Townes, Webb School Parents' Association and Parents of Athletes of Webb School presidents, respectively, and parent-teacher conferences were also part of the weekend...

MANCHESTER -- From time to time you come across someone who has the mindset to put adversity and setbacks behind them in order to achieve a goal. Shelbyville Central golfer Amy Beth McGowan is one of those people. Despite playing the entire season recovering from a shoulder injury, the motivated senior fought through the season with her goal of advancing to the TSSAA state tournament in the back of her mind...

It's been a rough season so far for the Community Vikings (1-4, 0-2 9-A). After a convincing win against Mt. Juliet Christian to begin the season, the Vikings found themselves on a four-game skid. On closer inspection of each loss, Community had chances to put the game away, but a bad break here and there, or a missed assignment here or there ended up putting Community at a 1-4 record heading into their bye week...

The Cascade Middle Lady Champions kept their undefeated streak rolling on Wednesday night as they blanked Huntland 5-0. The Lady Champs managed a whopping 34 shots on goal, while not allowing the Lady Hornets any thanks to a solid defensive effort. Cascade got one goal from Mariah Bowen, and two from Kayden Fletcher and Kristen Heath to lead the Cascade scoring efforts...

Enis Frank Buchanan, 85, died Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012 at Middle Tennessee Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Galilee Primitive Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Mr. Buchanan will lie in state at the church from 11 a.m.-noon with visitation beginning at noon. Nelson & Sons Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Visitors to Arrowhead Ranch in Normandy not only got a belly full from the food on Saturday, but a better idea about what goes on at the facility, now in its third full year of operations. The ranch is considered a safe, secure place to call home for young boys who are not criminals nor violent. The Level One facility accepts guardianship for boys who come from different backgrounds, coming from six surrounding counties...