Stories from Monday, October 7, 2019

Myrtie Ann Evins Doak, 85, of Shelbyville, formerly of Lebanon, died early Sunday morning, Oct. 6, 2019 at The Waters nursing home in Shelbyville after an extended illness. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Partlow Funeral Chapel in Lebanon. Burial will follow in Cedar Grove Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Doak-Howell Funeral Home is also handling arrangements,

Last week at Cascade, the National English Honors Society and Interact club began hosting a book drive. Members of each club decorated cardboard boxes for students and teachers to donate books into. The boxes are placed in each classroom, either in front of the classroom or just near the door. The books are being collected for the BCLA library...

Shelbyville Community Soup Kitchen held a fund-raising dinner last month, with Us Two & Him providing entertainment. Organizers have declined to say how much was raised at the event, but are still trying to raise $50,000 towards a matching pledge. An anonymous donor has pledged to match three times the amount raised up to $50,000.

A small child was seriously injured Friday by a family member’s dog at their West Lane Street home. The girl, who police said was “bleeding profusely” from bites and cuts, was treated in a nearby parking lot by Bedford County EMS personnel and airlifted directly to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville...

Last Tuesday, Middle Tennessee Spay Neuter Clinic, 846 Union St., marked its 25,000 surgery since opening in 2010. Terry and Jennifer Pruitt of Lewisburg received dog Bentley’s sterilization at no charge for being client number 25,000. The couple, who had only recently added the Pomeranian to their family, found out about the non-profit clinic from a friend. MTSNC will further celebrate by hosting a special reception 4-7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14.

To help ease the ills associated with a stray dog problem, Shelbyville City Council plans to approve Thursday night a low bid of $255,200 to make additional space at the dog harbor. John Davis, of Davis Stokes Collaborative design firm, who has been included in on the designs of this project for Shelbyville Animal Control (SAC), said eight general contractors were asked to bid, but only two submitted one...

Lance Paschal devotes a lot of his free time to cooking sorghum for the 18th Annual Halls Mill Sorghum Squeeze. He works full time at Jostens in Shelbyville but in late September when it's time to start boiling sorghum juice to make syrup he's there...

Six words across the counter at the Halls Mill diner resulted in a festival that's gone on for 18 years. From that breakfast conversation came the Halls Mill Sorghum Squeeze held each year on the first Saturday of October...

Bedford County will receive a $30,000 grant through the state's ThreeStar program, which will be used towards development of a business incubator in unused space at Bedford County Business Complex on Dover Street. A business incubator refers to space, often run by a government or not-for-profit agency, that's available for rent by start-up businesses. ...