Stories from Monday, April 13, 2020

Thomas “Jason” Lynch, 51, of Shelbyville died Thursday, April 9, 2020, at Tennova Healthcare-Tullahoma after an extended illness. No public service will be held at this time. A private graveside service will be held Tuesday at Cothran Cemetery. Doak-Howell Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

USDA Rural Development in Tennessee is open for business and here to serve our rural communities affected by COVID-19. The USDA has taken a number of immediate actions to help rural residents, businesses, and communities affected by the COVID-19 outbreak...

Sharon Kay Edwards, Motlow McMinnville campus branch librarian, was selected as the 2020 Community College Staff Member of the Year in the second annual Statewide Outstanding Achievement Recognition (SOAR) Awards during the Tennessee Board of Regents quarterly meeting Tuesday...

An argument over the federal stimulus checks escalated into a Shelbyville woman crashing her vehicle into a drainage ditch Sunday afternoon, police said. Arriving officers found the victim, who has not been charged with a crime or any other offenses, lying on the ground next to her car in the Walgreens parking lot on North Main Street. ...

Randy Bee Newsom, 53, of Shelbyville died Monday, April 13, 2020 in Shelbyville. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, there will be no visitation. A private family graveside service will be held with burial to follow in Cothran Cemetery near Rover. Online tributes may be made at the website of Lawrence Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Chapel Hill, which is in charge of arrangements.

Winners were recently announced in the Times-Gazette’s “March Sadness” trivia contest. Larry Molder walked away as the top winner of a 55-inch TV from Kincaid Service Company. Kincaid Service Company, located at 400 Madison Street, has served Bedford County and the surrounding area for over 80 years. ...

Bedford County’s COVID-19 case count rose to 23 Monday, according to the daily statistics released by the Tennessee Department of Health. The agency had reported 20 cases Sunday. That number includes one death and three recoveries. The agency reports 282 have tested negative in the county...

Since the dogs housed with Shelbyville Animal Control have no voice, Shelbyville City Councilors spoke on their behalf during their monthly business meeting Thursday night, which was available through live streaming Facebook video, due to COVID-19 state orders...

This is Tennessee Walking Horse country, so it’s only natural that the Easter Bunny would ride in on a horse at Carriage House Inn on Friday. The bunny (also known as Marlene Coult) is riding Designer Champagne, a multiple-time world champion recently named Pleasure Horse of the Year and owned by Kimberly Walden of Shelbyville.

The last few weeks have brought previously unimaginable changes to the lives of people throughout the United States. Americans everywhere are waking up to a new reality in which they can’t go to work or school outside the home and they have to stay six feet away from others. More than 80% of Americans are under such stay-at- home orders...