Stories from Thursday, July 2, 2020

To the editor, After a recently stay at Lynchburg Nursing Center, I just wanted to pass on the great experience we had before being able to return home. I would have to say that everyone we dealt with was great but a few really stood out. Beth the CNA, was very caring and became like a friend. ...

To the editor, The article about Hershel's retirement was interesting, and of great interest to me. I remember well when he was the Director of the SHA. I thought well of Hershel and am glad to have this opportunity to congratulate him on his long and faithful service. I hope that he and Karen will enjoy the new chapter in life. It was a pleasure to have known Hershel, and I appreciated the good job he did for Shelbyville...

Letter to the editor, As chairman of the Bedford County Election Commission, I am responding to an article published in the Tennessean newspaper on June 26, 2020.  It stated "Any registered voter in Tennessee can request an absentee ballot.  In these 33 counties you wouldn't know it." This article included Bedford County...

To the editor, It seems that most elected officials don’t care about the debt of our country these days because the Washington establishment is recklessly spending money that we don’t have. The country is over $25 trillion in debt, yet socialist decision-makers continue to push for new plans that will only drive our country deeper into debt. The far-left has proposed a government-run health care plan that is estimated to cost $52 trillion, as well as a Green New Deal estimated at $93 trillion. ...

At sunrise on Wednesday the sun makes a brief appearance through the clouds.

Motlow State is offering free dual enrollment courses to high school juniors interested in pursuing a degree in Mechatronics. The Motlow Middle College program will pay for all books, tuition, and even travel for juniors willing to pursue a dual enrollment mechatronics degree...

A blaze suspected to have been deliberately set destroyed more than $13,000 worth of markers Monday at Newell Rubbermaid, Shelbyville police and fire investigators said. An employee quickly doused the fire with an extinguisher, but most of the pallet containing 13,446 markers valued at $1 apiece was damaged, police said...

(Editor’s note: A friend and reporter who lives in Arizona, Mara Reyes Knaub, has been writing a Facebook account of her personal experience with COVID-19. Mara lives in Yuma, Arizona. She works for the Yuma Sun newspaper. This is her second report. ...

In just five days (from Friday, June 26 through Tuesday, June 30) Tennessee added 5,475 new COVID-19 infections to its case count bringing the total to 43,509. The first Tennessee infection was found in Franklin on March 5. By the last day of June, four months into the pandemic, 604 Tennesseans had died from the coronavirus...

Shelbyville Parks and Recreation is still in phase 1 of COVID-19 social distancing orders. The City of Shelbyville issued a continued state of emergency Friday. ▪Parks will open and close at regular scheduled times through the holiday weekend (6 a.m. to midnight.)...

A fiscal year 2020-21 budget containing no property tax increase was approved by Bedford County Commission in a special called meeting Tuesday night. The budget passed 16-1 with Commissioner Anita Epperson stating “pass” when her name was called. Commissioner Bill Anderson was not present...

A Bedford County deputy has been charged with aggravated rape in connection with an alleged incident in 2019. Joseph Guthrie, 31, of E.C. Arnold Lane, is accused of sexually assaulting an adult female in October 2019 at a home in Bedford County, according to a press release from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation...

It’s been a tough year for trees at the intersection of Main and Cumberland in Bell Buckle. The most recent giant to fall was on Tuesday morning during a storm when most of this giant oak broke loose from its trunk. In March on the same corner a storm took out five trees including an ancient pine.

Ms. Donnie Ruth Nelson, age 78, formerly of Shelbyville, passed away June 30, 2020, at her home in Nashville under the loving care and comfort of her daughter. Funeral services will be 2:00 P.M. Sunday, July 5, 2020, at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Brother Andrae Crismon will serve as eulogist...