Stories from Thursday, December 20, 2018

The Shelbyville Central High School FFA chapter made its annual Christmas donation of toys to Junior’s House, an agency dedicated to bringing together child abuse victims and the Child Protective Investigative team in one location. Its goal is to lessen the trauma experienced by victims of child abuse and their families and to increase the awareness of the problem of child abuse and abuse prevention. (Submitted photo)

Heart of the Home FCE Club met December 13 at Southern Charm in Bell Buckle for their holiday party. Members enjoyed the great food prepared at this nostalgic tearoom. Reminders were the Leader Training and County Council Meeting on Jan. 4, 2019, 9 and 10 a.m. respectively, at the UT/TSU Extension Office in Shelbyville, which Mignon Spence with attend...

The driver of a truck reported stolen in November faces multiple charges after his arrest Tuesday Dayton Dewayne Warren, 36, was stopped by Bedford County deputy Brandon Jarrell after allegedly making threats to two adults and two children at a Charlie Russell Road home. A computer check revealed the truck Warren was driving had been stolen Nov. 20 from a home on Maxwell Chapel Road...

Bedford County Highway Superintendent Stanley Smotherman, who will retire at the end of January, was recognized Tuesday by the Tennessee County Highway Officials Association. Smotherman served as chief highway administrative officer for 20 years and another 20 years before that as an administrative staff person in the department. From left are Wayne County Highway Superintendent Chuck Moser, Smotherman, and TCHOA Executive Director J. Rodney Carmical. (Submitted photo)

Diesel fuel and motor oil spilled into a creek running alongside Happy Valley Road north of Bell Buckle when a Haynes Brothers Supply Co. truck overturned after its driver lost control Wednesday morning. The spill was quickly contained by crews from Bell Buckle and Bedford County fire departments. The truck’s driver wasn’t injured. (T-G Photo by David Melson)

Boys & Girls Club of Bedford County, on Madison Street, has a new director, Ralph Buckingham. Buckingham, a native of Bell Buckle, has worked for the Murfreesboro Parks and Recreation Department as well as other youth development organizations. He is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, and member of the Pi Gamma Gamma chapter of Omega Psi Phi. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and presently serves as a minister at the Kings Chapel Church of God in Christ in Wartrace...

Bedford County Financial Management Committee voted Tuesday night to recommend raising the adequate facilities tax, a tax on new residential development, to $1.33 per square foot. The tax was created by the state, and adopted by the county in 2006, to address the burden that rapid growth puts on local school systems. ...

The 42-year-old student desks at Cascade High School are finally spent, superintendent Don Embry told Bedford County Board of Education Tuesday night at its December meeting. "We plan on replacing virtually every student desk out there," he told school board members...

Terry Michael Iwasik, 54, of Shelbyville died of cancer Friday, December 14, 2018. Celebration of Life 1-3:30 p.m. Sunday, December 30 at Henry Horton Lodge. Arrangements: Alternative Funeral and Cremation Service, Franklin.