Stories from Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Bedford County residents marked the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in different ways, including flag displays at Bedford County Courthouse Annex, a busy Shelbyville intersection, and the new Cascade High School. Watch for further details later here and in Thursday's print edition...

Brenda Cannon, executive director of community relations for Motlow State Community College, was the guest speaker for a recent meeting of Shelbyville Lions Club. She spoke about Motlow’s 50th anniversary this year. She noted there were only 551 students in 1969; this year, a total of 7,096 students are enrolled. She discussed Motlow’s benefits to the community. Motlow will celebrate Family Fun Day the last weekend of September. The band Eutopia will be performing that Saturday evening, and on Sunday at 2 p.m. the college will honor the descendants of the land upon which the Moore County campus was built. Cannon is seen here with Lions Club president Marc Majors.

Kristopher Grant Frazier of Shelbyville was named to The University of Alabama President's List for summer 2019. A total of 477 students enrolled during the 2019 summer term at UA were named to the Dean's List with an academic record of 3.5 or above or the President's List with an academic record of 4.0 (all A's)...

Friends and Family FCE met Aug. 13 with six members present. President Bonnie Hill opened the meeting by reading the monthly cleaning task to clean out drawers and closets and donate any usable items to charity. The call to order, "Primary Answers," was read by Devetta Totty. ...

Meth was found on a suspect who hit a pole on Kayden Street and drove away Monday morning, police said. A container with 11.18 grams of crystal meth/ice inside was found on Francisco Javier Fernandez, 21, of East Lane Street when he returned to apologize moments later, according to officer Jeff Goodrich's report...

To the editor: Has the Democratic Party gone too far left for minority Americans? Bob Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television and one of the nation's first African-American billionaires, recently said in an interview on CNBC that the Democratic party had lurched "too far left for him", by embracing higher taxes, runway government spending, and socialist schemes, like the New Green Deal. ...

Rubye Grace Walters Howell of Columbia, formerly of Shelbyville, died Tuesday, September 10, 2019. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Saturday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Brother Jeff Rasnick officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m.

Bedford County officials are pleased with the low interest rate the county got for a $1.5 million capital outlay note to finance new fire and EMS vehicles. John Werner of Cumberland Securities reported on the capital outlay note during Tuesday night’s meeting of Bedford County Board of Commissioners...

The joint city-county committee tasked with creating a new industrial development program met Monday to review the latest draft of an interlocal agreement between the two governments, and the document as amended will be submitted to both Shelbyville City Council and Bedford County Board of Commissioners for approval next month...

On a steamy Tuesday afternoon at River Bend Country Club, the Cascade Champion golf squad got the better of the Community Vikings and Forrest Rockets, posting a team score of 160. Forrest took second with a 185, while the Vikings finished with a 215...