Stories from Friday, April 14, 2017

Lewisburg is preparing to get a little bit bigger after passing the first reading an annexation request at the council’s monthly meeting on Tuesday. Councilmen passed on first reading a resolution to annex property, at the request of the landowners, on Highway 431...

Time spent in the natural world is typically a time of discovery, and a recent trip to Henry Horton State Park revealed something truly astonishing. This writer found “certified heat-treated” firewood, and the requirement that every camper there use it...

Chapel Hill did something that few Tennessee municipalities get to do any more—annex property into their town. Aldermen voted to annex a 27.98-acre parcel on Highway 99 after the owner, the White Family Trust based out of Franklin, initially requested the action several months ago...

The cattle industry in Marshall County has a long history, and resourceful area farmers often seek ways to improve their herds... and their bottom lines. “The state’s cow herd was the smallest (last year) since 1950,” University of Tennessee Agriculture Extension Agent Matthew Webb said. “The 2007 and 2012 droughts hit us hard.” Tennessee is typically in the top 10 in cow/calf production in the US, as well as being in the top two or three states east of the Mississippi River...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Police shot and killed an off-duty sheriff’s deputy celebrating his birthday with friends after the man drew his gun, became agitated and refused commands to drop the weapon, authorities said Wednesday. Hamilton County Deputy Daniel Hendrix had just turned 26 on Tuesday and was celebrating with two female off-duty officers with the Chattanooga Police Department, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said...

Greetings to everyone from the Town of Lynnville, Tennessee. The Town of Lynnville will be sponsoring an “Easter Egg Hunt” on Saturday, April 8, at the Robert Dunnavant Park beginning at ten o’clock a.m. Call the Lynnville City Hall at 527-3158 for more informationl Children age 12 and under are invited to come and hunt eggs...

Adams, Anna Marie Donation to the Book Fund; given by MCHS Class of 1953. Bradley, Brandon “Portraits of Courage”; given by Dave & Barbara Kennedy. “The Man Who Made Things Out of Wood”, “Maker Projects for Kids Who Love Woodworking”, “Rubber Band Engineer”, Gadget Inventor”, and “Invent it!”; given by Marshall County Courthouse Annex Employees...

The libs may want to invest in a new narrative. The old ‘Trump is Putin’s puppet’ ain’t gettin’ it any longer. Trump’s Syria attack put an end to that. There are, however, some left-wing kooks who posit that Putin allowed Trump to bomb Syria to make Trump look good, more evidence that some of these people’s hatred for Trump knows no bounds. ...

“Stress Awareness Month,” sponsored every April since 1992 by the Health Resource Network, is now half over. Are you stressed out that you haven’t done more to celebrate it? I’m glad I survived the pre-1992 Bad Old Days, before we numbskulls had a special month to make us slow down and realize the health impact of stress...

Elon Musk is so obsessed with self-improving artificial intelligence (A.I.) being mankind’s biggest existential threat that he now has a new company, Neuralink. Musk’s new company, according to the Wall Street Journal, will create devices known as “neural laces” that can be implanted in the human brain so people can mentally merge with software and ensure artificial intelligence programs have less of a chance of taking over the world and destroying humanity...

“For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that He might be Lord both of the dead and living.” – Romans 14:8,9...

Dear Savvy Senior, I would like to get my 82-year-old mother, who lives alone, a home medical alert system with a panic button that she can push in case she falls or needs help. Can you recommend some good options to help me choose? -- Overwhelmed Daughter...

Dear Heloise: I’m a HOSPICE nurse, and I’ve found that most families don’t understand what hospice is or what it does. We’re here to enhance the quality and dignity of the patient’s life and provide emotional support for the family. Often there also is financial relief for the family. ...

Many years ago, when I devoted my time to making a living in sales, a book written by Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich, was popular for putting salesmen in the right frame of mind. Another use of positive mental imagery is when Olympic athletes are in trance like thought devoted to imagining their success. ...

Once you understand the information contained in a map margin you can then get down to the information on the map itself. Next are the colors you will see on a topographic map. There are numerous colors used but here are the basics and what they represent...

Progeny Elizabeth McKensie touched her toe to the wall and gently started the wicker swing in motion. Sometimes, when the mood struck her, she would slowly swing for hours gazing over the sloping pastures which fell gradually to the meandering creek that lay against the distant grey blue bluffs. ...

Students from Marshall County High School joined approximately 350 of their high school peers in Murfreesboro on March 7 to express their views on public education in Tennessee at the Tennessee School Boards Association (TSBA) Student Congress on Policies in Education (SCOPE). The event took place on the Middle Tennessee State University campus...

BELL BUCKLE, Tenn. - The Webb School recently announced its A and B honor rolls for the third quarter of the 2016-17 school year. An independent college preparatory day/boarding school for grades 6-12, The Webb School is the oldest continuously operating school of its kind in the South. The school has a dual emphasis on academic excellence and character development...

For the 70th year, 4-H members from across Tennessee gathered in Nashville for the Tennessee 4-H Congress. The annual event, which took place March 19-22, gave 4-H’ers the opportunity to learn about the day-to-day functioning of state government by assuming the roles of state representatives and senators. Since it’s beginning in 1948, 4-H Congress has given more than 34,000 4-H’ers and volunteer leaders firsthand experience in state government...

LEWISBURG – Veteran financial industry professional Paul Watson has joined First Tennessee Bank as Vice President of Community Banking. Prior to joining First Tennessee he was a commercial loan officer CB&S Bank. Watson will be based in the Columbia main office at 200 West 7th Street and cover the Southern Middle Tennessee market, which includes Lewisburg, Columbia and Lawrenceburg. ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – There were 9,287 tuberculosis cases in the U.S. and 103 in Tennessee in 2016, the lowest numbers ever recorded. Despite these encouraging figures, the Tennessee Department of Health reminds all Tennesseans TB is still here, but is treatable, curable and preventable...

Forrest traveled to Moore County Thursday night to take on their toughest foe over the last several years and the Lady Rockets blasted the Raiderettes 13-0 in five innings for their 14th win in a row. It was the largest margin of victory for Forrest (26-1, 7-0) over Moore County (9-9, 6-2) since a 13-0 win on March 17, 2005 at Lynchburg.

Friday, April 14 Baseball Mountain Valley Classic at Grundy County, Coalmont, TN Marshall County vs. Tullahoma, 5:45 p.m. Marshall County vs. Grundy County, 8 p.m. Summertown Tournament Forrest vs. Waverly, 4:30 p.m. Forrest vs. Summertown, 7 p.m.

The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina is located in Charleston, far away from Lewisburg where Jay Howard grew up playing and excelling in the three major sports of football, baseball and basketball. Howard decided that football was his best sport and became Marshall County’s High School’s all-time leading receiver, catching 211 passes for 28 career receiving touchdowns. Howard averaged 75.4 yards per game and 13.9 yards per grab and also had five rushing touchdown and two kickoff returns for scores.

Ethan Mealer is on a major tear on the mound as the Forrest freshman blanked Fayetteville Tuesday night to extend his scoreless streak to 19 innings and salvage a split for the Rockets in the season series. “It was great to see how the boys reacted to a loss Monday night,” Forrest coach Bart Joyce said. “The coaching staff was really pleased that they didn't hit a panic button and just got back to playing our team's game.” Mealer tossed seven innings of no-hit ball at MTCS last Tuesday in an extra inning 1-0 win by the Rockets and he backed it up with a stellar performance in the 10-0 run-rule win versus the Tigers.

The injury riddled Marshall County Tigerettes hosted District 12AA rival Page Tuesday night at Reese Hambrick Field in Lewisburg and the Lady Patriots overcame a home team comeback to win 5-2. “We did not hit the ball and left seven runners in scoring position,” MCHS coach Heather Denton said. “We need to score those runs and I think we are just not being aggressive at the plate.” “We just need some girls to step up and get some hits and make some plays for us.”

Coming off of two consecutive two-run losses to district leader Richland to start the week, the Cornersville Bulldogs went back to work for the third day in a row, hosting 2A Giles County on Wednesday night. And despite the Bobcats (10-9) coming into Cornersville with a red hot five-game winning streak that includes two wins over the same Richland squad by a 22-6 margin, the Bulldogs hung tough by coming back from a 10-2 deficit to lose a close 12-9 ballgame. "They've shown this all year," Bulldog coach Ben Putnam said. "They don't get down, they battle back. We've just got to quit putting ourselves in these holes."