Stories from Thursday, August 8, 2013

Dorothy Ann Fisher Sadler, 77, of Shelbyville died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013, at Select Specialty Hospital in Nashville. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Doyle Sadler officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Thursday.

"Thick smoke" from marijuana greeted a Shelbyville police officer checking a report of a suspicious vehicle on Regent Drive early Tuesday afternoon. Three 18-year-old men in the vehicle -- Tyias Sayvon Allison and Romellus Othello Sneed, of separate Cedar River Road addresses, and Jakori Franklin Jones of Warners Bridge Road -- were charged with simple possession of a schedule VI drug after pot was found, police said...

This hardly qualifies as a book review, since the book in question was published a full 20 years ago. But I had to talk about how fascinated I was by David Halberstam's "The Fifties," which I picked up on sale for my e-reader a week ago and tore through over the next few days...

Cascade Cub Scout Pack 306 enjoys an end-of-summer cookout at Bell Buckle Park on July 23. Front row, from left: Peyton Philpott; Jordan Redmond; Seth Maloney; Vincent Ingram; Luke Harris; Patrick Cowart; Zach Crosslin; Evan Cramer; Damien Perry; Nick Harris; Jordan Stanley; Noah Maloney; Matthew Farris and Mason Lankford Back row: Ben Reeves; John Stanley; Adam Reeves; Anthony Valdivia; Austin Perry; Nathan Smith; Ben Renegar; Jared Habel; Garrett Bennett; Hunter Ford; Ethan Estes and Logan Philpott. (Submitted Photo)

Kroger manager Mike Smith draws the winning entries in the Kroger--Times-Gazette Big Grocery Give-Away. Winners will be announced in Sunday's T-G. (T-G Photo by David Melson)

Malek Johnson starts Kindergarten - Brother Zander there to help.

Finding out how the neighbors do downtown was the purpose of a quick field trip to Fayetteville taken by 14 city officials and downtown merchants Wednesday. Since the beginning of the year, Shelbyville's Downtown Task Force has been working toward applying for the Tennessee Downtowns program, and the trip was to scout for ideas...

Even as teachers continue to adjust to Common Core standards, they must face additional issues. Those issues include the following: One of the latest proposed changes involves making it harder to obtain and keep a teaching license. The Tennessee Board of Education continues to study proposed changes to tie teacher licenses to student achievement. ...

As the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible says, there is nothing new under the sun. That's true in schools as well, where students and teachers face a never-ending array of regulations. One of the main changes in education is the continued switch to Common Core standards, a move which some call a much-needed reform and others call an overreach by government to create nationalized education...

City officials met Monday with engineers and state transportation managers to review plans to widen North Main Street -- a job expected to take up to two years. The status meeting at the Tennessee Department of Transportation's Nashville office was attended by city manager Jay Johnson and public works director Mark Clanton, along with Diane Rosenburg of consulting engineering firm Gresham Smith, which is designing the project...

Michael Jacob "Jake" Leverette, son of Shannon and Rhonda Leverette, Unionville, graduated Jan. 4 from Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill., as a Navy boatswain's mate. He is now stationed at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, Calif. His 10-month deployment began Jan. 21 on the USS Higgins DDG-76, missile destroyer. Leverette is a 2012 graduate of Community High School. (Submitted photo)

William Jackie Neal, 55, of Smyrna died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013 at his home after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Deer Point Baptist Church with the Rev. Ronald Leathers officiating. Burial will follow at Dyer Cemetery in Rockvale. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Saturday at Woodfin Chapel in Smyrna. Feldhaus Memorial Chapel is assisting with arrangements.

Everleigh dressed up as a Princess in attendance to Isabella Craigs' Princess Birthday party!

Ellis F. Sudberry, 83, of Shelbyville, died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill. Burial, with military honors, will follow at Simpson Cemetery in Rover. Visitation will begin at noon.

Nancy Elizabeth Haskins White, 95, of Shelbyville died early Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013 at her home. Celebration of Life services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at First Assembly of God with the Rev. Glenn Forsee officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Lebanon Methodist Church Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. Friday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home.