Stories from Saturday, October 28, 2017

Law enforcement and emergency personnel are lined up and as prepared as they can be as participants in the racially-based rally and counter-rally set to begin at 10 a.m. in downtown Shelbyville. As of mid-morning a bus filled with League of the South members had arrived. Four black-clad white men clad in black uniforms bearing red crosses were seen entering a North Mai Street convenience, glancing furtively at other customers...

The Rev. Ellis 'Jack' Douglas, 72, of Unionville died Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Monday at Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill. Burial will follow at Cothran Cemetery. Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Sunday.

Frances Neeley McCarty, 85, of Murfreesboro, a Shelbyville native, died Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday at Woodfin Memorial Chapel with Tom Brantley officiating. Entombment will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Tuesday.

Editor’s Note: Facebook Live video of the rally is posted online at Facebook.com/ShelbyvilleTimesGazette. By JASON M. REYNOLDS jreynolds@t-g.com Confederates. Anarchists. Police. Batons. Automatic rifles. Snipers. Helicopters. Drones. Clowns. Those were the scenes Saturday as 200 to 400 white nationalists and 400 to 600 counter-protesters filled downtown Shelbyville during the White Lives Matter rally...

Billie Marie (Freeman) and William "Bubbie" Parker celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on October 29th. They retook a photo of the one that was taken on their wedding day on the church steps. They were wed on October 29th, 1977 at the Landers Street Church of God in Shelbyville by Rev. Truman Smith...

Video of Saturday's protests can be viewed at facebook.com/ShelbyvilleTimesGazette.

Local law enforcement’s plans for controlling the White Lives Matter rally in Shelbyville Saturday worked out. During the rally, protesters and counter-protesters shouted epithets, sometimes obscenities, at one another but they were kept apart and none of the arguments had a chance to come to blows...