Stories from Sunday, January 25, 2015

The Webb School recently announced its A and B honor rolls for the second quarter of the 2014-15 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...

Principal's List Fifth Grade Helen Allison, Annie Arnold, Elijah Arnold, David Bass, William Byford, Gracy Calvert, Kylie Calvert, Annabell Chamblee, Larissa Collet, Kody Cook, Steven Cope, Mary Crouch, Hollister Engle, Ethan Estes, William Estes, Natalie Evans, Jordan Green, Jared Habel, Jaden Hapstak, Aiden Heymann, Drake Hodge, Kobe Inmon, Ryan Inmon, Conner Johnson, Caroline King, Ayden Lloyd, Lauryn Matthews, Cole McBee, Teri Morton, Lauren Perry, Rachel Phillips, David Thomas Porter, Benjamin Renegar, Sarina Richards, Macey Scheffler, Ayla Snoddy, Jayden Sorrells, Caroline Stone, Morgan Sudberry, Ryan Taylor, Katelyn Wilder.. ...

Victory Baptist Academy's first quarter honor roll. Front row: Robert Cook, Fena Phengmany, Dakota Kluge, Courtney Warren, Eli McGilliard, Stella Johnson, Noella Price, Joshua Meda, Lana Lemmon, Nicholas Collett, Anna Grace Everhart, Gabriel Byrd. Second row: Xavier Oehler, Noah Butler, Kimber Cook, Jonah Price, John Green, Miya Lemmon, Daniel Lemmon, Johnathan Crosslin, Christian Meda. Third row: Lida Phengmany, David Warren David Smotherman, Emme Kikuchi, Lyndsi Warren, Ashley Prater, Caleb Flowers, Jackson Wheeler, Madison Warren, Tad Arnold. Fourth row: Allyson Bivvins, Anna Robison, Emma Hill, Dawson Leverette, Timothy Warren, Ben Fraser, Michael Eley, Michael Bush, Maisyn Price, Ashleigh Bivvins. Last row: Taelyr Bush, Sarah Fraser, Richard Williams Jr. Morgan Bush, O.J. Newsome, Blayne Sanders, Colton Prater, Brady Adcock, David Crosslin, Ashley Humphreys. Not pictured: Melodie Warren, Matthew McCullough, Alan Webb. (Submitted photo)

There is a story that's told about a butterfly and the cocoon. It goes like this: A man found the unopened cocoon of a butterfly, and he decided to watch it closely for several days. Then one day he noticed there was a small opening that appeared in the cocoon. The man sat and watched the butterfly as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole in the side of the cocoon...

I became interested in rocks for a while when I was young. I'm not sure what kind of geological activity was going on outside of my dad's house in Wartrace, but I found some really cool rocks. Now that I think about it, I don't even actually remember finding the rocks hidden deep in the earth or anything like that. I think they may have been part of someone else's rock collection at one time. They just happened to be around...

Liberty School has a new teacher on staff who taking the time with individual students to help improve their reading skills. Benita Spain is the new interventional reading instructor at the K-8 school, according to principal Cort Huffman, and Spain is helping with small groups of students in third through eighth grades...

Thomas Magnet School is building a competitive Lego robotics team -- one plastic brick at a time. The team competed in the Lego League Regionals in Tullahoma on Dec. 6. The team came in No. 1 for core value, No. 2 for robot performance and No. 2 for overall score...

This week the T-G caught up with Christy Jensen, an employee of the Community Development Center. If you have any one you think would make for an interesting Sunday Conversation, email Sadie Fowler at sfowler@t-g.com. T-G: Tell us a little about your family...

It was his first day on the job, and there were 300 eighth graders eagerly waiting to hear what their new assistant principal had to say. At just 27 years old, it was a moment that Josh Young will never forget. "I remember Mr. (James) Sullivan told me to speak to the eighth graders. So, I went to the cafeteria," said Young. "I was a nervous wreck, just tore up. I tried to give them a good speech."...

BELL BUCKLE -- The Webb School Lady Feet gave the University School of Nashville Lady Tigers their best shot on Friday night, but in the end USN pulled away from the Lady Feet 44-30. The Lady Feet and Lady Tigers both let their defenses do the talking in the first four minutes as USN only led 2-0...

A rough first quarter proved to be too much for the Cascade Lady Champions to overcome on Friday night, hosting the CPA Lady Lions. CPA rode the momentum off a 24-point first quarter to a 62-34 victory over the Lady Champions. While CPA's early pressure caused Cascade trouble working the ball inside, the Lady Champions did find some measure of success once able to work the ball to the paint...

BELL BUCKLE -- The Webb School Feet hosted the University School of Nashville Tigers on Friday night looking to avenge a loss earlier in the season. The rematch did not disappoint as the Feet sent the game into overtime. However, the Tigers had a little more in the tank as they won 49-45...

It wasn't the homecoming outing the Eagles had hoped for as Shelbyville Central fell 69-44 to Lawrence County in a District 8-AAA matchup on Friday night. The Wildcats took an early 17-2 lead and that proved to be more than the Eagles (9-12, 5-4 8-AAA) could overcome...

If Cascade coach Mike Edmondson needed to see any improvement his team has made after Friday night's game against top-ranked CPA, all he needed to do was flip back in the scorebook and compare Friday's game to their first meeting on Jan. 6 when the Lions thrashed the Champions, 87-18...

CHAPEL HILL -- The Community Viqueens used two big runs to punctuate a big second half in defeating the Forrest Lady Rockets 62-49 in a District 9-A game Friday night. The win kept the Viqueens (16-6, 11-0 9A) undefeated in district play with one district game left in the regular season...

The District 8-AAA race just got a little tighter after Shelbyville Central claimed a 65-59 win to hand Lawrence County its first District 8-AAA loss on Homecoming night at SCHS. The Golden Eaglettes (16-7, 7-2 8-AAA) have now won eight games in a row and 13 of their last 15. Lawrence County (19-4, 8-1 8-AAA) remains atop the district, but it's setting up to be a close race down to the final regular-season game...

American Sniper surprised box-office watchers by pulling in a huge haul over the four-day weekend -- taking over $105 million during its first weekend of wide release. The film is up for several Oscars this year, including one for star Bradley Cooper, who bulked up 30 pounds and learned how to speak Texan for the role of Navy Seal Chris Kyle...

Bedford County's newest grand jury was sworn in Thursday, producing six sealed indictments. Indicted and brought before Circuit Court Judge Forest Durard were: *Kyle Matthew Hamlin, possession of schedule II drug for resale (two counts), controlled substance analogue, possession of schedule VI drug for resale, possession of schedule VI drug for delivery, possession of a firearm during felony...

Police say an allegedly-intoxicated woman tried to kick and bite officers as she was being arrested early Friday. Christy Louise Henley, 50, of Myers Street was looking for a relative at a Bethany Lane mobile home park and went to the wrong trailer, threatening to attack a resident who refused to open the door, the report said...

Here's our look back at the past seven days in local news. Choose the best answer for each question. 1) Most respondents to a non-scientific Times-Gazette web poll said they'd made what kind of New Year's resolution? A. Health and fitness B. Religion and spirituality...

The first of what will be a monthly women's meeting series is starting off with a presentation by a real American hero. Andrew Smith lost his legs in a 2012 IED explosion while on a mission for the armed forces in Afghanistan. He will speak at the Women of Worship (WOW) meeting on Monday, Feb. 2 at First Baptist Church, said Missy Long, the church's children's director and an organizer of the event. The meeting will be from 6-7:30 p.m...

Your landline phone bill will drop by a few pennies this month, while your cellphone bill will increase by a few pennies. Until this year, each Tennessee county imposed its own surcharge on landline telephone bills to help pay for the cost of "enhanced 911" technology which identifies the location of landline callers...

CHAPEL HILL -- The Community Vikings couldn't overcome a cold shooting night in the first half as the Forrest Rockets defeated the Vikings 61-44 in a District 9-A game Friday night. The Vikings (2-20, 0-11 9A) got behind early. Darian Pride led the Vikings with five first quarter points, but they were the only points Community could muster in the quarter. Two three-pointers and a 9-1 run left the Rockets with a 14-5 lead after one...