Stories from Sunday, March 11, 2018

Cascade High School students who competed in a recent engineering competition at the Hands-On Science Center in Tullahoma are: Zac Taylor, Whitney Sullivan, Drew McPeak, Chay Chumley, Lake Carter and Godwin Murrillo. (Submitted photo)

The Bedford County Animal Control Pet of the Week is Shelby. She is a 2 year old Terrier mix, current on all vaccinations, microchipped, spayed and Heartworm Negative. BCAC is running an adoption special for the month of March; all adoptions for dogs and cats will be $25.

Grieving a loss is a natural part of life, but sometimes being told that doesn't make one feel a lot better. There is no right or wrong way to react to personal loss. It does usually help to know that those around you understand and can relate to the sadness you are feeling. Sometimes folks get "stuck" in a certain phase of the grieving process and need help from others to move on to happier times...

Back when I was in high school my grandmother told me that she never wanted to "be put in a nursing home." She said she didn't ever want to go to "one of those places." In fact, Grandma said to me, "Douglas, if they try to put me in a nursing home, come get me and put me in a wheel barrow and take me down to the river and dump me in there instead."...

There are people from our worlds of business relationships who stand out to us, right? I've grown to admire several over the years, extracting tips of this and that, here and there, from him or her. We all have our mentors and people who've, whether knowingly or not, have influenced us...

March brings such a variety of weather with cold, rainy days like we've had these past few weeks to the beautiful sunny days that make us want to rush out and plant all the flowers. But we still have some of those lion days before the lamb prances us into spring. For those days, nothing says comfort like a pot of warm, aromatic soup on the stovetop...

Area schools recently held their annual Read Across America observances. School board members, police officers, other public officials and high school students recently visited Bedford County elementary schools to read to young students for Read Across America...

Over the past four years, there’s been a change in culture in the Community Viking football program. Senior Nathan Hudson has seen the change throughout his high school career since coach Chris Grooms took over the program. Since then, the Vikings are placing more players into college football programs than ever before in school history...

An employee of a Shelbyville game store was surprised Thursday when two men wanted to sell him a Nintendo Switch game system. His own Nintendo Switch — stolen approximately a week ago, Shelbyville police were told. The prospective seller said be bought the system from a man claiming to be “Jonathan Johnson” for $100 last week at his home...

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain I was excited to participate with other legislators and the Tennessee Wildlife Federation to support families in need of food through a donation to Hunters for the Hungry. Hunters for the Hungry is a unique program that gives much needed meat to hungry Tennesseans. ...

CSX has postponed a scheduled closing of Webb Road in Bell Buckle. The closing was to have taken place Monday morning through Tuesday around 6 p.m. for maintenance, town officials said. However, that closing has been postponed. The new date will be announced at a later time...

Popular country duo Big & Rich will perform May 15 at Calsonic Arena, along with Bedford County’s own Big Smo, in a concert that will be free to junior and senior high school students who have ACT scores of 21 or higher or who have made a two-point gain in their scores...

Central High’s National Honor Society students are going to work Thursday — and the “wages” will benefit the chapter. The National Honor Society at Shelbyville Central High School is holding the fundraiser titled Scholars for Service, said chapter adviser Claudia House, an English teacher...

Aralyn Hanson got a front row seat for the Equine Education program at Calsonic Arena, Friday. Aralyn is unequivocal in her love for horses. “I want a horse,” she said. “I don’t care what kind.” Friday’s event was focused on one breed: The Tennessee Walking Horse...