Stories from Friday, May 24, 2013

Mary Alice Pylant Simmons, 82, of Shelbyville died Friday, May 24, 2013. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Cannon United Methodist Church with the Rev. Doug Dezotell officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. at the church. Doak-Howell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

MURFREESBORO -- Shelbyville Central's track team competed in a number of events on Thursday in the TSSAA Spring Fling at the Dean A. Hayes Track and Soccer Stadium on the campus of MTSU. Even though no one advanced to the finals, the participants turned in respectable times...

Boy, that feels gooooooood! Jessica Hleback gives her horse Jose's Last Rose a bath in preparation for the 43rd annual Spring Fun Show at Calsonic Arena this week. (T-G Photo by Jim Davis)

New renovations to the Hall of Fame Club inside Calsonic Arena make it easier to view activities in the arena from the club. A new counter, new and less-obstructed windows, and new chairs allow visitors to the club to sit at the windows facing the arena and clearly see what's going on inside, said Celebration CEO Mike Inman...

#22 has become a tradition in the Young family. Cousins: Kaegan Young, Micah Heflin, Krista Heflin

The family of a Cascade High School student who drowned two years ago is urging teens to think before they go swimming in non-designated areas and to check the water temperature. Robert Alan Moore, 17, who went by Alan, drowned Wednesday, May 25, 2011, at Normandy Reservoir. The Wartrace teen and a friend had dived off the middle of the Barton Springs bridge near the border between Bedford and Coffee Counties...

Kaemey Young sure loves ball park fun watching big sister Kaegan and friend Anna Haskins

Almost two-thirds of the respondents to a non-scientific Times-Gazette website poll say they've considered going back to school as an adult for college or vocational training, and several commenters on the poll have already done so: "I am currently attending classes and about to graduate with my four year degree."...

The 68th annual Wartrace High School Alumni Banquet was held April 27 at Cascade High School. Patsy Gregory, the 2012/2013 Alumni Association president, welcomed those in attendance. They enjoyed lunch, visited with former classmates, and viewed memorabilia provided by association historian Carolyn Smotherman...

The agreement to give property at Longview for a new fire hall has been finalized, and the deal is now in the process of being filed with the register's office, according to discussion at Tuesday night's meeting of Bedford County Board of Commissioners' courthouse and county property committee...

Items suspected to be stolen were found in a vehicle, also reported as stolen, stopped by police in Circle O Trailer Park, Railroad Avenue, early Thursday. Moments after the car was reported stolen officer Todd Sanders spotted it on North Hillcrest Drive. Sanders said in his report he followed the car into the trailer park before attempting a traffic stop...

Malek graduated Circle of Friends Preschool

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Typical Frank Philpott happy as a clam going to school.

Martin Earl Kirby, 74, of Shelbyville died Friday, May 24, 2013 after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Ron DeWitt and the Rev. Robert Kane officiating. Burial will follow at Hazel Cemetery in Bell Buckle. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Sunday.

A well-known professional wrestling referee was among the injured Thursday afternoon in a head-on crash west of Shelbyville on State Highway 64. Eric Hicks of Shelbyville was en route to Thursday night's All State Wrestling matches, promoter Glen Mullins said...

Rita Faye Kesey of Tullahoma died Thursday, May 23, 2013. A celebration of life will be held from 4-8 p.m. Sunday at Frazier-McEwen Park in Tullahoma. Tullahoma Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

Mary Sue 'Granny' Boyce, 93, of Shelbyville died Friday morning, May 24, 2013. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Scott Reed and Dave Turner officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 3-8 p.m. Sunday.