Stories from Monday, March 16, 2020

Alfonzo Snipes, 70, of Shelbyville died Monday, March 16, 2020 at Tennova Healthcare-Shelbyville. Arrangements pending from J.A. Welton & Son Funeral Home, Tullahoma.

March 12, 2020 will be a day of infamy for sports fans, for decades to come. With the spread of COVID-19, the sports world has essentially shut down for the foreseeable future. College conference basketball tournaments, the NCAA March Madness tournament and all NCAA spring sports have canceled their 2020 competitions...

Shelbyville Central’s Golden Eagle soccer team started the season off with a 5-0 win over Webb School at home on Thursday night. The Eagles led 3-0 at halftime and added a pair of goals in the second half. Nick Carballoso scored first followed by a goal off the foot of Christian Ramos, with an assist from Eric Botello...

It never seems to fail. When the calendar turns to spring, the weather never seems to cooperate with the early weeks of high school sports. This week, area high schools were hit with a slew of postponed and canceled games. Cascade High School was one such victim of the unrelenting rainy weather, forcing a slow start to the 2020 baseball season...

Keeping with tradition, 63 members of the Harris Middle School chapter of National Junior Honor Society stepped up recently to help those less fortunate at Nashville Rescue Mission campuses. For two weeks in February, the students rolled up their sleeves for what most consider the trip of a lifetime of experience. They plan to return if the opportunity arises...

Everybody in the community really wins during Middle Tennessee Spay & Neuter Clinic’s annual “Paws for a Cause” 5K-Walk fundraiser, coming up Saturday at Calsonic Pavilion on Whitthorne Street. Registration will be held from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. The run begins at 10 a.m. while the walk portion follows at 10:15 a.m...

Last week at Cascade, students and faculty were dropping like flies due to illness. The flu began its sweep across Cascade as dozens of people caled out sick. Teachers have started warning students about how to avoid getting sick, such as washing hands, cover coughing/sneezing, and avoiding close contact with others...

An armed man known only to his victim as “Q” pointed a gun at a woman, said, “You see this, girl?”, grabbed her purse and ran at a Landers Street parking lot Sunday afternoon, police said. A second man grabbed another woman’s cellphone and $100 and ran away with “Q”, the victim said...

Joyce Anderson greeted a visitor to her home on Spring Street in Wartrace last Sunday, wearing 12-inch-high rubber boots. Her right hand was swollen from filling sand bags with a cup. When Joyce heads out to go to work, she often has to wear her rubber boots to get to her car. She changes to work shoes in the car. Joyce is a nurse at the Vanderbilt Urology Clinic in Cool Springs...

At least one person was seriously injured Tuesday morning in a crash at the intersection of U.S. 41A North, Troupe Road and El Bethel Road. The wreck was still under investigation and no names or further information were available at press time.

Many organizations have cancelled or rescheduled activities for this month. Please send changes to tgnews@t-g.com. •Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders’ and Exhibitors have postponed this week’s annual show at Calsonic Arena. No new date has been released at this time...

While the entire community is concerned over the potential spread of COVID-19 coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is emphasizing the importance of protocols for susceptible patient facilities such as those providing elder care. Several Shelbyville elder care facilities responded to the Times-Gazette with comments on their patient visitation policies...

As a health precaution aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus, Bedford County Schools are closed through March 31, according to a statement released Monday from Superintendent Don Embry. There were no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Bedford County as of Monday...