Stories from Friday, March 24, 2017

By Adriana Pomatto Marshall County High School Junior Academics are an important part of a student’s life. In fact, academics should be one of the top priorities in school. Unfortunately, many students were beginning to lose focus on what truly mattered and teachers struggled to keep their pupils involved...

I hit the road to the Big G this weekend, an annual pilgrimage my bunch makes every year about this time. We keep the campers down here from about February to late April. It’s a lot of fishing, cooking, and just forgetting we live in the real world...

Lewisburg Animal Shelter volunteers will be set up at Tractor Supply in Lewisburg this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Stop by and see them and support the Lewisburg Animal Shelter. If you see a dog that you think has no water or shelter or inadequate water or shelter please contact the Officers at the new number for dispatch at 359-7215 and ask them to do a welfare check on the dog. ...

The Marshall County Solid Waste Department continues to progress despite, or because of, their two-headed approach to getting the job done. The department raised the question with the county solid waste committee during the March 15 meeting of how they needed to approach their leadership structure in budget planning for next year...

County Commission committees cleared the way to add a full-time human resource professional to the county government. The county Benefits Committee told Director of Accounts and Budget Malinda White to advertise, interview, and fill the position at their meeting on March 15...

• Offering someone a ride turned into more than expected on the evening of March 10 in Lewisburg. Two men reported to Lewisburg Police officers that Nathan Feagin and his girlfriend, Samantha Campbell, had asked them for a ride from the R&D Market on Mooresville Highway to an apartment complex on Joyce Avenue...

By Scott Pearson Staff Writer Marshall County will get an opportunity to see what a 21st century library system for the county might look like on Wednesday. Maureen Arndt with 720Design, a Dallas firm specializing in library design analysis, will present the strategic plan commissioned by the library on March 29 at 5 p.m...

By Scott Pearson Staff Writer The Marshall County Chamber of Commerce aims to put Marshall County back on the tourism map. Chamber Director Ritaanne Weaver, partnering with Lewisburg Director of Economic Development Greg Lowe and Marshall County Joint Economic and community Development Board Director Mike Wiles, is finishing up the process of putting together a tourism brochure for the county for the first time in years...

By Scott Pearson Staff Writer Marshall County’s state-level elected officials are continuing to fight to preserve the inn facility at Henry Horton State Park. State Representative Tillis said that he and Senator Jim Tracy had met with Governor Bill Haslam on Wednesday and had a lengthy discussion about the future of the park...

The future of hunting as we know it today is in jeopardy. The previous statement shouldn’t come as a surprise. Any hunter who has been listening has been bombarded with issues and messages that hunting, as well as gun ownership, is threatened. To say that the issues involved are complex is an understatement itself. ...

NASHVILLE -- Tennessee’s 2017 spring turkey season opens on Saturday, April 1 and continues through Sunday, May 14. The state young sportsman hunt for youth ages 6-16 is March 25-26. Spring turkey harvest numbers have been consistent for a number of years in Tennessee. Tennessee turkey hunters have passed the 30,000 harvest mark for 14 consecutive years during the spring hunting season...

Bank of America has recognized Lewisburg native Mimi Hooten for her long tenure with the company. She has worked at the bank for 40 years. Hooten began her career in 1976 as a teller at Williamson County Bank in Franklin, Tenn. She transitioned to the home loans sector in 1981 when Third National Bank began Correspondent Lending and partnered with Williamson County Bank, which was later acquired by Bank of America. ...

I feel like I’m living in some parallel universe. The news media, the Democrats, and even some Republicans continue to beat the drum of some sort of collusion between Trump and the Russians. What if I told you that neither the FBI nor any other intelligence agency had ever inspected the DNC servers that were supposedly hacked? That would be front-page news, right? It’s true. FBI Director James Comey confirmed it in testimony in January and again this week before the House Intelligence Committee...

In the peak years of my scouring yard sales and junk shops for second-hand, dollar-bin vinyl record albums, I didn’t really focus on company labels. I paid more attention to genres and artists. Still, it’s only fitting that I now shine the spotlight on a single company, since I learned that Capitol Records (the first major West Coast record company) celebrates its 75th anniversary on March 27...

If I asked you who said the following, minus the federal references, you might think it was Governor Haslam: “So, what we’re proposing is to add the equivalent of five cents per gallon to the existing federal highway user fee, the gas tax. That hasn’t been increased for the last 23 years. ...

“…Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back.” - Isaiah 38:17 In our passage of scripture we have a beautiful illustration of the absolute fact that believers are totally forgiven. ...

Dear Savvy Senior, Over the past few years my 57-year-old husbandÕs snoring has gotten much worse. ItÕs to the point that I have to either wear earplugs or move to a different room. Any suggestions? -- Sleep Deprived Susan Dear Susan, Snoring is a very common problem that often gets worse with age. Around 37 million Americans snore on a regular basis according to the National Sleep Center...

Dear Heloise: Most airplane flights these days do not have enough time between layovers for the cleaning crew to wipe down TRAY TABLES. To keep from picking up germs, I pack several antibacterial wipes and keep them in my purse to wipe down the trays and armrests. It’s also handy to use in the plane’s lavatory. -- Shannon M., Muleshoe, Texas...

NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Department of Agriculture (TDA) is accepting applications for the USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. TDA Assistant Commissioner for Market Development Ed Harlan advises eligible individuals and organizations to submit proposals using the 2017 project template...

Mason Nipper Collins, grandson of Lewisburg’s Grover Collins, has worked hard to focus on incorporating strong Hereford genetics in his herd to produce high quality beef. The life skills developed through the exhibition of Hereford cattle at regional, state, and national levels have also created a foundation for Mason Collins to gain success in the show ring as well as producing quality animals for sale...

NASHVILLE — The state veterinarian confirms that a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has sickened a second commercial chicken breeder flock within the existing controlled quarantined zone in Lincoln County, Tenn. On March 14, samples taken from the flock tested positive for avian influenza. Following federal laboratory confirmation of H7N9 HPAI, officials began depopulation of the affected premises...

Old Black Dog The Old Man had worked the ducks wonderfully for the last two minutes. He had turned the twenty some-odd birds when they were nothing more than steadily moving dots against a red sunburst dawn. Circling first in a high watchful pattern, they had then settled into a purposeful flight path arching directly into the sixty-four carefully placed decoys...

After a 1-0 battle won by Forrest on Tuesday at Chapel Hill, the Rockets traveled to Eagleville to make up a game postponed from Monday and it turned into a war as the two District 9A rivals clashed for 13 innings before Forrest came out on top 4-2. “I don’t know what you can say about that, it’s like this game right here if you win, you should get two district wins,” Forrest coach Bart Joyce said. “It’s just two great ball teams that didn’t want to give up.” “Luckily, we scratched a couple of runs across in the top of the thirteenth to get the job done.”

Executing the little stuff in a baseball games usually results in a victory. The Forrest Rockets proved the age old adage, playing an almost flawless game Wednesday night at Chapel Hill to capture an exciting 1-0 win over District 9A rival Eagleville. A Jaylen Smith suicide squeeze bunt with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning was the final little thing Forrest did right to secure the win. “I was thinking because I went 0-for-3 the first three times, I was destined to get a hit the fourth time,” Smith said. “Coach told me that we were going to see what he did the first pitch and we were going to do the squeeze the second pitch.”

The Cornersville Bulldogs and Mt. Pleasant Tigers were set to end the two-game series on Tuesday night, but Mother Nature had other plans, forcing games across the Mid-State to be canceled behind a powerful set of storms pushing across Tennessee. When the action resumed on Wednesday night at Mt. Pleasant, the Tigers looked like a different team that lost 12-2 against the Bulldogs on Monday, leading 1-0 until the fifth inning and taking a tie into the seventh before Cornersville tacked on three runs to get the 4-1 win.

Friday, March 24 Baseball Tullahoma at Marshall County, 6:30 p.m. Cornersville at Moore County, 6:30 p.m. Culleoka at CMS, 5 p.m. Softball Marshall County and Forrest at Riverdale Tournament Cornersville at Zion Tournament CMS Conference Tournament

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The eagle has landed on top. The United States routed Puerto Rico 8-0 to win its first World Baseball Classic in four tries on Wednesday night behind six hitless innings from Marcus Stroman. The Americans planted their eagle statue mascot on the mound in celebration, a blue cap jauntily hanging from one of its large wings. "It's a different feeling when the USA is on your chest," first baseman Eric Hosmer said. "We wanted to get the U.S. back on top of the baseball world, and we did that."

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — As a big league pitcher, Dallas Green was pretty mediocre. "I was a 20-game winner," he would joke, "it just took me five years to do it." Instead, it was in another role where the imposing, 6-foot-5 Green really made noise. "When you think of big, with that deep voice, that booming voice, he could hold a team meeting, boy, he could scare you right out of your seat," Cleveland manager Terry Francona recalled.

Thursday, March 16 MCHS at Independence Girls MCH 4, Independence 2 Girls Singles Natalie Cook (MCHS) def. Peterson, 8-5 Gordon def. Alexa Hooten (MCHS), 8-2 Annie Haynes (MCHS) def. Bunch, 8-5 Marti Sullivan (MCHS) def. Grimes, 8-4 Hovdet def. McKenna Hunter (MCHS), 8-6 Anna Claire Moses (MCHS) def. Zakaria, 8-4