Stories from Thursday, December 17, 2020

The exhibition building at Bedford County Agriculture and Education Center now has a concrete floor, which will allow the building to host a wider variety of events. The building, which hosts vendors and poultry competition during the annual Bedford County Fair, previously had a dirt floor. The new concrete floor was paid for with a $45,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Bedford County Highway Department did prep work for the project as an in-kind match for the grant funding. Admiring the new floor are, from left, facility manager Helen Raby; County Commissioner Bill Anderson, who chairs the ag center’s board of directors; Jim Tracy, state director of USDA’s Rural Development program for Tennessee; Bedford County Mayor Chad Graham; and Bedford County Highway Superintendent Mark Clanton. For more information about facility rental at the Ag Center, call 931-684-7077.

In order to enhance the knowledge and understanding of the importance of agriculture in our community, Bedford County Farm Bureau Board of Directors recently purchased several agricultural related books and donated them to Liberty School’s library. Pictured are  Whitney, Brooke, and Lainey Ledbetter.

An online scammer attempted to take $20,000 from a Shelbyville man Monday, police were told. The victim said he was attempting to purchase computer software over the Internet. The scammer locked up the victim’s computer and claimed to have cleaned out his checking and savings accounts. He then told the victim $20,000 had been placed back into the checking account...

Interim Superintendent Karen Scoggins will earn the equivalent of outgoing Superintendent Don Embry’s salary while she is leading the school district during the search for his replacement. The Bedford County School Board unanimously voted on Tuesday to supplement Scoggins’ salary of $99,382...

COVID-19 vaccinations will begin in Bedford County next week – and just in time, considering a one-day record 137 new cases were reported locally in Tuesday’s Tennessee Department of Health report. “The Bedford County Health Department will begin rolling out the vaccine as early as next week,” Emergency Management Agency director Scott Johnson told Bedford County Commission’s Law Enforcement Committee on Tuesday...

Bedford County commissioners continued to express confusion over the status of possible beer sales being grandfathered into Special Character District Overlays within Rural Village Neighborhoods in portions of rural Bedford County. The designations, described as a “zoning tool” by County Zoning Director Chris White, affect convenience stores in the Flat Creek, Bedford, Wheel and Halls Mill communities...

Tennessee, over the last week, has climbed to the top of the list of all the states, having the highest number of daily cases per capita — 212.6 per 100,000 population. In a list of the 89 counties that are the hottest of the hot spots for COVID-19 nationwide in the average number of daily cases per capita, 17 Tennessee counties have been on it this week...

Ripp Dakota Davis was born and passed from this life Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, at St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital. Funeral service will be held 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 18, at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Pastor Jimmy Gray officiating. Burial will follow at Powell Hollow Cemetery. Visitation will begin at noon.

Jimmy Roy Moore, 71, of Chapel Hill died Wednesday, December 16, 2020. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Lawrence Funeral Home, Chapel Hill. Burial will follow at the William Berry Jones Cemetery in Bedford County. Visitation will begin at 12 noon.

Richard Lennart "Dick" Millberg, 88, of Shelbyville, died Monday, December 14, 2020 at Salude Rehabilitation Center, Suwanee, Georgia. A live stream Celebration of Life officiated by Rev. Jeff Rasnick will be held at 1 p.m. CST Sunday, December 20, 2020 on First Baptist Church’s Facebook page.

Edgar H. Brinkley Jr., 81, of Shelbyville died Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at St. Thomas Rutherford in Murfreesboro. Graveside services will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday, December 23, at Mt. Zion Haley Cemetery with Elder James Smith as eulogist. J.A. Welton & Son Funeral Home in Tullahoma is in charge of arrangements Online condolences may be sent to www.weltonfuneralhome,com.