Stories from Friday, February 28, 2020

This week our wind flow has been from the northwest bringing the cold air and this continues through Saturday. Another round of light snow late Friday night was the end of this weather pattern. Next week, a complete reversal as gulf moisture returns along with much warmer temperatures. ...

Seventh grader Abigail Voorhes-Fontenot of Shelbyville, seen here, claimed first place in the annual spelling bee at The Webb School. Eighth grader Gray Hamilton of High Point, North Carolina, placed second, and sixth grader Alora Pearce of Tullahoma placed third. Daiva Berzinskas, International Program director, organized the spelling bee. English teacher Kevin Finn and English department chair Jacqueline Boyanton served as judges.

Friday morning’s snow dusting was quite varied in accumulation amounts in counties only a few miles apart. Some portions of Lynchburg saw a nice dusting, while the daffodils in Bedford County escaped snow but certainly bowed to the cold weather.

"Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right." --Teddy Roosevelt The 2020 Legislative Session is probably half over. The Committee and House Calendars are becoming full and sometimes the bills are contentious. I had eight bills this week that I presented in committees and I should have that again next week. We are striving to adjourn by the middle or end of April...

A Shelbyville man has been charged with child abuse after his girlfriend's 5-year-old child was brought to a Shelbyville hospital with serious injuries early Thursday. The child was covered with bruises from his back to his buttocks and suffered cuts to his neck and head, a bloody and swollen lip, swollen jaw and had hand prints and scratches to his back and buttocks, said a report by Officer Letisia Diaz of the Shelbyville Police Department. ...

To the Editor: I wanted to pass this advice along for anyone in a similar situation that I was in when deciding on care for my mother. My Mother had been with me at home until I was physically unable to continue to care for her and my family and I had to make the difficult decision to place her in the nursing home...

The town of Wartrace said thank you in dollars for the efforts of four town employees in getting new digital water meters installed. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen determined that a $1,000 bonus was the right way to say thanks to town employees Kimberley Kass, Kenneth Phillips, Danny Rhoten and Alden Rowland...

Both Mary Cathryn Perry and her grandson, William Scott, have celebrated their 18th birthdays in the past few months. That’s because Perry, 72, was born on Feb. 29, Leap Day, which only occurs every four years. Today is her 18th birthday. (Scott’s birthday was on Oct. 5 last year.) Perry said she and her grandson have enjoyed the coincidence. “We have had lots of fun with this,” she said.

Quarantines, fear, death — all recent newsworthy elements associated with the coronavirus, which was first reported in Wuhan, China last month and has now, according to the Centers for Disease Control, made its way into northern California. Still, local travel agents are advising those with future trips on the horizon not to panic just yet...

Rover Baptist Church pastor Sam Bullington is always ready to discuss with the community an outreach ministry he loves — serving with Shelbyville Community Soup Kitchen, which serves from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays in the basement of First United Methodist Church...

Donations for the Shelbyville-Bedford County Public Library Building Fund, Memorial Fund and Memorial Books have been made in memory of: Maurice Leo Armstrong by Barry & Pam Cooper Hershel Carlton Bell by Barry & Pam Cooper Wilene Sanders Bomar by Barry & Pam Cooper...

William Bryant Martin, 83, of Shelbyville died Thursday, February 27, 2020, at St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital in Murfreesboro. Funeral services 3 p.m. Sunday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home, Brother Jim Sorrells officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 12 noon.