Stories from Thursday, September 7, 2017

Shelbyville's own local fiber guild, Fleece on the Duck, has been invited to demonstrate at the third annual Highland Games and Celtic Festival this Saturday, Sept. 9 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at The Hermitage Plantation in Nashville. The Highland Games is a family-friendly event and educational experience featuring traditional Scottish athletic, dance, and music competitions. In addition to the fiber guild's demonstrations, many vendors will be in attendance offering food, drink, crafts, and more...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Fearsome Hurricane Irma cut a path of devastation across the northern Caribbean, leaving at least 10 dead and thousands homeless after destroying buildings and uprooting trees on a track Thursday that could lead to a catastrophic strike on Florida...

Chestnut Ridge Cousins, a genealogy organization formed in 2002, will hold a weekend event on Oct. 26-28 in Bedford County. The organization is made up of descendants of the pioneer families that migrated into Southern Middle Tennessee settling in the area of the Chestnut Ridge Community and the surrounding foothill communities. ...

Youth services librarian Lis Ann Morehart (left) reads “Three Hens and a Peacock” by Lester Laminack to an energetic crowd of youngsters during Storytime Wednesday, including Charlie Barrett (front), who crawled away. (T-G Photo by Jason M. Reynolds)

Hundreds of dollars worth of guns are missing after a burglary at a home on Highway 130 East. Three shotguns, two rifles and a revolver, along with an Apple iPad Air, were taken from a gun cabinet after a door was forced to gain entry to the home, according to a Bedford County Sheriff's Office report...

The Webb School has finished calculating the total for a hurricane relief drive. The school held a day to wear jeans on Sept. 1 to raise money for the Houston Food Bank in support of Hurricane Harvey victims. The total amount collected was $5,461.93...

The Fly Community Theatre will present the classic drama "A Doll's House," by Henrik Ibsen, 7 p.m. Sept. 8-9 and 15-16, and 2 p.m. Sept. 17, at the Fly Arts Center on South Main Street. The play, written and set in Norway of the late 1800s, is the story of Nora, a married woman who comes to realize the shortcomings in her husband and their relationship, and begins to think about her own need for independence...

The Fairview FCE Club met on Wednesday, August 16, 2017, at the University of Tennessee/Tennessee State University Extension Office in Shelbyville. President Pat Hastings asked Marilyn Lewis to read the call to order, "Summer Blessings." The devotion was given by Susie Armstrong, who read "Life's Superlatives, Legend of the Raindrop" by Helen Steiner Rice, and the Lord's Prayer...