Stories from Saturday, August 10, 2019

For various reasons, my graduating class has seen two milestone anniversaries sail by without a class reunion materializing. So, I can understand the disappointment of those on the slightly OLDER end of the baby boom generation who have now seen the 50-year reunion celebration of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival collapse...

In June of this year my wife and I flew up to North Dakota to be with my family for the memorial service for my sister-in-law. I love flying over the Midwest and looking out the window of the plane at the patchwork quilt of the multi-colored fields below. Fields of wheat and barley, corn and sunflowers, sugar beets, potatoes and beans are laid out in checkerboard patterns as far as the eye can see...

Last week I promised to write a little more about words this week, mainly some of my pet peeves related to the misuse of some. Let’s face it, no one is perfect so why not refresh on some of the basics? Given the fact that I have proofread and edited dozens of stories each week for many years, I realize I am hypersensitive to this subject...

In these days when we hear and see so much about fake news, I remember many years ago when a certain reporter on the nightly news was frequently referred to as "the most trusted man in America." You may have seen him recently in television clips from 50 years ago when man first landed on the moon. ...

Motlow State Community College is celebrating 50 years of being one of the south's foremost community colleges, one of Tennessee's top higher education institutions, and a leader of educational, economic, and community development in middle Tennessee...

Edwin and Vickie Ray announce the engagement of their daughter, Amanda Ray of Shelbyville, to Steven Tindall of Shelbyville. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Robert and Barbara Weir of Raysville, Louisiana; the late Randy A. Ray; and Paul and Alma Smith of Lafayette, Tennessee. She is a 2009 graduate of Gateway Christian homeschool and is employed by Tennova Healthcare-Shelbyville...

The dog days of summer are here and in the kitchen that calls for cool, easy dishes that refresh and take advantage of the warm season vegetables. A perfect dish that fits that bill is Balsamic Marinated Tomatoes. Even my Dad, who is not a fan of tomatoes, was eating these with a spoon out of the bowl...

Shelbyville-based Big G Express has donated over $30,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the past four years. The idea of a charity motorcycle ride was pitched to the leadership team by one of Big G's professional truck drivers, Tim Chelette. ...

You never really keep points in a scrimmage, but Cascade coach Jake Tyre walked off the field Friday night feeling like his team just picked up a win in a three-team scrimmage against Hickman County and Mt. Pleasant. “We had a decent scrimmage. At times, we looked really, really good, then at other times you could tell it was definitely scrimmage time,” he said...