Stories from Tuesday, August 4, 2020

The work of five MTSU art professors is the focus of a celebration of the centennial of women's suffrage in a new exhibit in Murfreesboro's City Hall Rotunda.   Tuesday, Aug. 18, is the 100th anniversary of Tennessee legislators’ by-one-vote approval of the constitutional amendment giving American women the right to vote.  ...

To the editor, Ruth Bellenfant should be relieved, because after the election and if Mr. Biden (who has dementia) wins, she won’t hear anything that disturbs her left-leaning tendencies. As it is now, Google, Facebook, and Twitter are censoring anything that doesn’t play to their agenda (that would be the Left’s socialist idea of heaven on earth)...

FARMERS MARKET If last week was any indication, this week’s market will be good. We had eleven vendors and all of them had a good variety of vegetables and baked goods. Production is good, the quality is good, the variety is good, and the turn out is good...

The US Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program has approved a $45,000 grant which will be used to put a concrete floor in the exhibition building at Bedford County Agriculture and Education Center. From left are USDA Rural Development state director Jim Tracy; County Mayor Chad Graham; and USDA Rural Development area director Faye McEwen. The exhibition building is used for exhibitor booths, poultry competition, and a children’s area during the annual Bedford County Fair. It’s also been used for a variety of other activities over the years. Replacing the dirt floor with concrete is expected to increase the building’s functionality and make it more attractive to a greater variety of potential uses.

A woman who allegedly threatened a pizza delivery driver she thought was involved with her boyfriend was arrested after attempting to hit a police officer Friday night, according to an incident report. Rebecca Louise Glowacay, 33, of a Madison Street apartment complex allegedly beat the pizza driver’s car with her fists while telling her in front of an officer, “If I get my hands on you...” The driver told police she doesn’t know Glowacay’s boyfriend and parked next to his vehicle while trying to determine her customer’s apartment via cellphone. ...

Motlow State President Dr. Michael Torrence has been appointed to the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Commission on Institutional Infrastructure and Transformation. The Commission appointment is for three years, from July 1, 2020, until June 30, 2023...

Shelbyville Housing Authority is searching for a new deputy director-a position Ron Tillman’s held since 2015. The long-time employee isn’t leaving SHA, but quite the contrary; he recently moved up to the executive director’s office. Tillman started at the housing authority in 1991, as an inspector of construction work for the late executive director Carlyle Langley. He continued at that position until 1994, when then director Hershel Thrasher hired him as his modernization coordinator...

The dairy industry has a familiar question for you: “Got milk?” Six years after the popular tagline was retired, “Got milk?” ads are back. A dairy industry-funded group is reviving the campaign, hoping to prolong the boost milk has gotten during the pandemic...

As Bedford County schools opened this week, there were 19 new cases of COVID-19 found last week in school age children — age 5 through 18. The number of active cases in the county is also rising significantly, with a daily average (from July 27 to Aug. 2) of 202.7 people who are infected, nearly a 30 percent increase over the previous three weekly counts. The highest daily active case count in Bedford County hit a peak over this last weekend — 231 on Sunday and 226 on Saturday...

Students were all set and ready to go Monday morning for an abbreviated day at school. Look for more back-to-school pictures in the Times-Gazette this week.

Yvonne Faulkenberry, 85, of Shelbyville, formerly of Chapel Hill, died Monday, August 3, 2020 at her residence. A graveside service will be 3 p.m. Wednesday at Coleman Cemetery in Bedford County Lawrence Funeral Home, Chapel Hill, is handling arrangements,

Mary Elizabeth Rogers Baker, 88, of Lewisburg died Thursday, July 30, 2020 in Pulaski. She was the sister of Joseph David (Kim) Nash of Shelbyville There will be no service at this time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bennett-May and Pierce Funeral Home and Crematory of Pulaski is in charge of arrangements,

Nancy Evans Carter, 72, of Beechgrove died Friday, July 31, 2020. A memorial service will be scheduled for a later date.