Stories from Saturday, August 27, 2016

He's Shady In Black, Jimmy McConnell up for Richard Donner of Dyersburg, won the A division of Stallions, 5 Years and Over (Canter) Saturday night at the 78th Annual Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration. The B division was won by Honors, Larry Edwards up for Keith & Dan McSwain of Milton and Gainesville, Georgia....

Emma Geraldine "Nanna Dean" Boyce, 74, of Shelbyville died suddenly Friday night, August 26, 2016 at Tennova Health Care. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Scott Reed and Ray Armstrong officiating. Burial will follow in Parsons Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Sunday.

The show is underway. It never fails that when the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration is here that the negativity of the horse is front and center. The coverage from the public forum in Murfreesboro several weeks ago and "horse show time" humane groups bring to the forefront the issue of the Horse Protection Act and allegations of abuse...

Betty Lynn Compton, 89, of Shelbyville, died Saturday, August 27, 2016. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Jimmy Gray and Ray Armstrong officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Monday.