Stories from Wednesday, November 6, 2013

D & R Siding owners and employees recently celebrated the company's expansion of restoration services. Kimberly Roberts, Annette Bowling, Shawn Robers, Marty Heflin, Michelle Gardner, Scott Sutton, Chris West, Howie Harrison and Justin Spence are joined by others from the community at their ribbon cutting at their business on Tullahoma Highway. (T-G Photo by Jim Davis)

EAGLEVILLE -- The Liberty Lady Patriots just had too much offense for Eagleville in Tuesday night's make up game. The Lady Pats shut out Eagleville during the second and third quarters and cruised to the 37-10 victory. Of Liberty's seven team points in the first quarter, Kyleigh Hardy accounted for five of the points, while teammate AJ Mitchell knocked down one shot...

Local businesses have begun hosting holiday open houses. The Times-Gazette will publish this schedule each Wednesday. Here's what's happening this weekend. Friday Nov. 8 and Saturday Nov. 9 Refreshments and door prizes will be served Saturday, Nov. 9...

David Crowell is a new board member of The Celebration. The Shelbyville native is general manager of Shelbyville Power, Water & Sewerage System. He graduated from Shelbyville Central High School in 1979 and from Middle Tennessee State University in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in business administration, majoring in accounting...

Support of local outreach programs is a long-standing tradition and an ongoing mission for the women of First Christian Church. Their bake sale benefitting outreach, to be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the church, has been a yearly fundraising event for as long as church members can remember...

Get out the cellophane -- because the holidays are just around the corner. Ann Throneberry welcomed hundreds to the auditorium of the Duck River Electric Membership Corporation Monday morning to unveil her annual holiday cookbook. The session was repeated Monday evening -- and she'll repeat it in several other counties as well as the holidays approach...

"They really helped me," a Unionville man says of the Bedford Cancer Foundation. Jerry Deason's life came to a halt when he was diagnosed with sarcoma on his right hip. He worked for more than 20 years in the asphalt industry and was running a plant. His wife is legally blind, and when he became sick, he feared losing his home...

With one sidewalk project near the Shelbyville square set to begin in the spring, the city council is already looking at another state grant for more improvements. The council will vote on a resolution next Thursday for a sidewalk enhancement grant from the Tennessee Department of Transportation...

Zander Johnson - Southside School 4th grade - Proudly holds up his trash monster..