Stories from Sunday, January 26, 2014

Shelbyville & Bedford County Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations for its four annual awards recognizing service to the community. The Deery Eakin Volunteer of the Year Award, the Outstanding Leadership Award, the Special Services Award and the Franklin Yates Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented during the annual membership luncheon and awards banquet on Feb. 17 at the Blue Ribbon Circle...

Get ready -- starting Monday, several Shelbyville neighborhoods will start receiving new 96-gallon trash carts. The carts are going out a month sooner than expected, according to public works director Mark Clanton, since the 886 containers were delivered to the city earlier than planned...

The Super Bowl is more than just another football game -- it's a national holiday of sorts, the one game that even casual fans want to watch closely, and the game most likely to be a party, suitable for inviting friends over. For that reason, Super Bowl season is one time of year when people think about upgrading their living room TV...

Okay, guys, it's your time to man up. Women, you've got a title to defend. For the past two years, most of the T-G's Super Sunday Game Trivia contest winners have been women. It's worth the effort to answer six questions about the Super Bowl. The first place winner will be awarded a $200 gift certificate towards the collectible of their choice from Athlon Sports and Collectibles...

Utility lines were down after this van slid off Warners Bridge Road into a tree Saturday morning. Jerome Neeb of Collier Avenue in Shelbyville was injured, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol. Neeb's legs were pinned under the dashboard before emergency personnel could arrive. He was taken to Heritage Medical Center. A thin layer of ice covered some county roads at the time of the crash. (T-G Photo by David Melson)

A thief enjoyed a pack of pork chops and a box of macaroni before leaving a Carter Street home with the kitchen chairs and a coffee pot last week, Shelbyville police were told Thursday. One of the victims said she knew who stole the items -- and used most of her cooking grease for the meal -- and had seen some of them at his home...

The Tennessee Valley Authority met a record-breaking winter demand for electricity Friday morning with an estimated 33,345 megawatts when the average temperature across the region hovered at 7 degrees. This would be TVA's highest demand for electricity since the summer of 2007 and third-highest in TVA history. The previous winter record was 32,572 megawatts set on Jan. 16, 2009...

LAWRENCEBURG -- Needing a district win in the worst way, Shelbyville Central's Golden Eaglettes used a steady offense effort backed by a pressure-packed defensive performance to claim a 47-32 win over host Lawrence County on Friday night. Shelbyville (13-10, 5-4 District 8-AAA) entered the game having dropped three of its last four district contests...

If the Community faithful learned one thing from the Viqueens' rivalry game against the Forrest Lady Rockets on Friday night, it's the fact sophomore Sarah Pierce has ice in her veins. With the score tied at 42 apiece and only 1:32 left in regulation, Pierce drilled a huge 3-pointer, giving the Viqueens a slim, 45-42 lead...

Friday night's 65-43 win over Forrest gives the Vikings sole command of second place in the district standings, just a half game behind MTCS. That's just where Viking coach Robbie Davis wants his team to be. "We're exactly where we want to be. We're in second place by ourselves with one to go. If we win that one, we could end up tied for first," Davis said...

LAWRENCEBURG -- The long range bombs were launched in Shelbyville Central's impressive 64-61 win at Lawrence County in a huge District 8-AAA matchup on Friday night. A total of 36 3-point shots were attempted with the Golden Eagles (9-13, 6-3 8-AAA) connecting on 9-of-15 with the Wildcats making 7-of 21...

NASHVILLE -- Although it was another loss to the top team in the state, the Cascade Champions (15-4, 4-3 12-AA) still performed well and improved upon their previous meeting against new district opponent CPA. Even though it was a better effort, the Lions (22-1, 6-0 12-AA) still claimed an impressive 94-43 district win on Friday night...

NASHVILLE -- Offense has been hard to come by at times this season for the Cascade Lady Champions. Though it was a struggle at times on Friday night against the CPA Lady Lions, Cascade threw everything it had at the home team but couldn't match a 15-point, fourth-quarter effort and suffered a 47-41 loss...

NASHVILLE -- Offense was still a struggle for the Webb School Feet on Friday night, but a better effort on the defensive end of the floor kept the team within striking distance of USN. Despite that defensive effort, USN was able to ride the momentum from a big first quarter to a 46-40 win...

Gary Johnson has seen it all, as a valued member of the community, but also as a sports writer for the Times-Gazette. Johnson has also worked in the records department at Arnold Engineering Development Center for nearly 20 years as well. If you have a nomination for Sunday Conversation, email sfowler@t-g.com....

You have to hand it to Maurice Dandy. He can sculpt about any design from steel -- even a hand. The 1994 graduate of Shelbyville Central High School is welding together large and small pieces of metal to design works of art. He is in his third trimester at the Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville...

The Times-Gazette on Wednesday recognized Martha Fisher for her award as 2013-2014 Tennessee Principal of the Year. The T-G presented the Cascade Elementary School principal with a plaque containing the story from October that announced the award. Also pictured are T-G staff writer Jason Reynolds (left) who wrote the story and Bedford County Superintendent Don Embry. Any T-G story can be memorialized into a permanent, lacquered wooden plaque. To inquire about a plaque, contact the T-G office at 684-1200. (T-G Photo by John I. Carney)

Shelbyville Central High School students have been showing off their decorating and marketing skills in the high school library. The librarians, Dona Northcutt and Heather Richards, had help from several talented students enrolled in a new class, Retail Operations, at the Central High School Annex. ...

Some people would consider it goofy or dopey to wake up at 3 a.m. to run 13.1 miles, but few people would expect Goofy or Dopey to be cheering them on as they ran. Although Marie Gilbert doesn't consider herself a serious runner, and has only run 5K (3.2 miles) races for a couple of years, she recently took the runDisney challenge and ran a half-marathon at the Walt Disney World complex in Orlando, Fla...

Last week was School Board Appreciation Week in Tennessee, a time to build awareness and understanding of the vital function an elected board of education plays in our society. "It takes strong schools to build a strong community, and these men and women devote countless hours to making sure our schools are helping every child learn at a higher level," Bedford County Superintendent Don Embry said in a statement. ...

The Webb School has announced its A and B honor rolls for the second quarter of the 2013-14 school year. An independent college preparatory day/boarding school for grades 6-12, The Webb School is the oldest continuously operating school of its kind in the South. The school has a dual emphasis on academic excellence and character development...

I am going back to school this year. My application has been accepted, and I am now a student at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. I will once again be reading text books, writing papers, and taking tests. I will be living in a college dorm in Atlanta from the middle of July until the middle of August, and coming home on the weekends...

We've all heard the story as told in Genesis. How God made something out of nothing. That there was a darkness that hovered over the deep and an earth that was formless and empty--a blank canvas. As the story goes, out of this nothingness a creator meticulously begin to craft a creation that he would later call "good."...

Fifth Grade Prinicpal's List Seth Cloud, Laila Corral, Seth Countess, Katie Cowart, Madalyn Crosslin, Chloe DeLease, Haley Gentry, Emily Houle, Tori Hull, Sydney Jones, William Lane, Samuel Maddox, Bailey Olive, Kyler Parker, Charles Phillips, Connor Prim, Alyssa Rhodes, Jeffrey Riddle, Payton Riddle, Kristin Schuler, Helenna Simpson, Elijah Smith, Lauren Williams...