Stories from Friday, May 18, 2018

Deacon Samuel and Malinda Oates celebrated 70 years of marriage on May 8. Although no special observance was held, their church family at Thompson Grove Missionary Baptist Church sent good wishes. (Submitted photo)

Members of the Bedford County 4-H BB Sharpshooters team recently donated stuffed animals to the Shelbyville Police Department for the Cops and Kids Program to comfort children in difficult situations. The shooting team members also gave snacks, gifts, and toiletries to senior citizens in assisted living centers. First row, from left: Isaiah Hamilton, Boone Shaw, Jaxon Lawen, Colin Nash. Second row: Noelle Hamilton, Laney West, Jackson Harris, Robert Cook, Madison Wilson, Reah Hamilton, Jonathan Parker. Third row: Julia Callaway, Walt Shaw, Dakota Phillips, Dakota Lawen, Henry Gordon, Jared Habel, Joshua Wade. Not pictured: Emma Gilmore, Ella Gilmore, Emma Habel. (Submitted photo)

Mark Alan Caldwell, Gabby Westbrook, Linsey Stephens, and Natalith Lazarus are among the first high school seniors to have attended Learning Way Elementary when it opened. The four of them visited the elementary school in their caps and gowns and were greeted with cheers and cupcakes by the elementary students and teachers. (Submitted photo)

Bedford County Arts Council’s May potluck speaker was Jason Scales. Scales, seen here with Arts Council member Sue Thelen, discussed his new book, “How’s That Working For You?” The purpose of the book, his second, is for the reader to evaluate what is not working for them in their life and focus on how to change that to achieve their desired outcome. Scales was also asked about his first book, “Resilient: How To Bounce Back From Loss.” He briefly spoke on the family tragedies that led to that book and how people are not taught how to lose. Both books may be purchased online. Scales is a native of Shelbyville who now resides in Murfreesboro and founded Believers Faith Fellowship Church in January 2009. (Submitted photo)

A car hauler, forklift battery. wood stove, hot water heater, vehicle carburetor and lawn tractor were taken within the last two weeks from a home on Fairfield Pike within Shelbyville, police said Wednesday. Suspects were named. A caller claiming to be an ATF agent (from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives) notified a Charlotte Drive man that a pistol registered to him was involved in a criminal investigation and asked if he had it in his possession, police were told...

Shelbyville Central High School senior Braden McTigue joined 31 other soon-to-be graduates at Southside Elementary’s Senior Walk on Thursday. Southside students and teachers lined the halls as the new grads walked the halls in caps and gowns. Bedford County’s public high school graduations are this weekend at Calsonic Arena — Community on Friday night, Central and Cascade on Saturday. (T-G Photo by Andrea Nix)

After two competing bills concerning the Tennessee Walking Horse industry failed for several years to pass the U.S. Congress, supporters from both sides attempted to have key provisions from those bills included as amendments to the current farm bill going through Congress...

We Are Neutral, an environmental nonprofit based in Gainesville, Florida, is seeking volunteers to help perform energy efficiency upgrades at Shelbyville Housing Authority housing units May 29-June 1. Volunteers may work one, two, three or all four days...

Bedford County Financial Management Committee hopes to finalize the 2018-2019 county budget next week so that it can be voted on by the full county commission in June, and the numbers continue to look good. According to discussion at a budget meeting Thursday morning, the county can afford a 3 percent across-the-board raise for employees, plus a 1 percent annual step raise, as well as a variety of other agency and not-for-profit requests, without the need for a county property tax increase...

Shelbyville Central senior basketball standout Jenna Holt recently signed a letter of intent to continue her education and play basketball at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson. Freed-Hardeman won the 2018 NAIA Division I Women’s National Championship...

Joey Lee Davis, 55, died Thursday, May 17, 2018, at St. Thomas West in Nashville. Funeral services 4 p.m. Sunday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home, Brother Mike Hannah officiating. Visitation begins at 1 p.m.