Stories from Wednesday, May 3, 2017

The way we teach history -- names, dates and a quilt of millions of people’s individual stories -- can make it a boring subject, but Lewisburg’s Panzie Lyttle brings it to life. The United States had been involved in World War I for less than a month when she was born in Belfast on May 3, 1917...

The search continues for an inmate who slipped away from a county work detail on Thursday. Billy Trapani was working at the Marshall County Solid Waste recycling hub when he slipped out of a fire exit during the inmate’s lunch period at approximately 12:15...

The Rock Creek Bible Society held their first meeting in 1815 at the site of today’s Bethbirei Presbyterian Church in Lewisburg, and the group will gather again May 6, 2017, for its 203rd time. Beginning in a time of world tumult, the Rock Creek Bible Society’s first meeting was sandwiched in time just a few weeks after Major General Andrew Jackson defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans and Napoleon’s final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. ...

Marshall County Head Start is looking for children, and families, that want a jump on school and learning. Beckie Palmer, site manager for the county, said that even though this school year isn’t yet over, registrations for next year are in full swing...

May 8 – 12, 2017 ALL MENUS SUBJECT TO CHANGE LEWISBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL Breakfast Monday: Honey Bun or Cereal w/Cheese Stick, Fresh Fruit, Juice, Choice of Milk Tuesday: Sausage & Biscuit or Cereal w/Cheese Stick, Fresh Fruit, Juice, Choice of Milk Wednesday: French Toast/Uncrustable or Cereal w/Cheese Stick , Fruit, Juice, Choice of Milk...

They won’t relent until every red-blooded American male is toting one. I speak of the fashion industry’s newest attempt to persuade men to carry pursues. In a new Chanel advertisement, a fashionable fellow named Pharrell shows, or tries to, that it’s hip for a man to carry a purse...

Enterprising entrepreneurs out there might wantto invest in a fleet of tractor backhoes and partial ownership of a limestone quarry, because it’s starting to look like bunker-digging time in America. The threat of nuclear war is spiking like the needle of a meat thermometer on a lava-flow...

DEAR ABBY: When I was a young, newly divorced, single mother, I returned to college. There I met a woman in similar circumstances. We became fast friends, decided to pool our resources while we pursued higher education and moved in together. Over time, the friendship became more than platonic...

Thursday, May 4 Baseball District 9A Tournament T.B.A. at Forrest, 5 p.m. Soccer District 12A/AA Tournament Cascade at Marshall County, 6 p.m.

After dropping a disappointing 13-9 contest at home versus Lewis County on Tuesday, the Marshall County Tigers were back in action two days later to play host to 3A Coffee County with the regular season winding down. While the Tigers could not muster much offense against the Panthers on Tuesday, the blue and white jumped all over the Raiders from the get-go, taking a 7-1 lead after three innings and used the dominant pitching from senior Brayden Gentry to maintain same final score.

Anytime two schools that are located less than 10 miles apart get together in any sport the competition is stiff. But Friday night, two historically superior softball squads went head-to-head as Cornersville (12-5) and Marshall County (9-15) squared off for the second night in a row in Lewisburg with the Tigerettes coming out on top in an anticlimactic 12-3 win.

Sometimes, those big games just don’t turn out to be as exciting as anticipated. That was not the case Monday night at the Field of Dreams when the Lady Hornets travelled to Chapel Hill for a re-match of a highly confrontational game won by Forrest 3-2 at Huntland on April, 20. The Lady Rockets, coming off back-to-back losses on Saturday in the Coffee County Classic were ready as always and played one of their best games of the season in a 4-1 win over the Lady Hornets.

The Marshall County Tigerettes notched their fifth straight win in the intra-county rivalry series with Cornersville, beating the Lady Bulldogs 5-2 Thursday night at Frog Bottom. “It was a huge ballgame, you could tell there was a lot of pride there,” MCHS coach Heather Denton said. “They wanted to win that game and you tell with all the tension in the stands, everybody was in the game and everyone wanted their team to win.”

After sweeping host Coffee County and Covington Friday night to get to the 30-win mark on the season, the illness ridden Forrest Lady Rockets dropped two games on Saturday at the Coffee County Classic in Manchester. “The tournament should have helped us realize that we can be beaten when we don't play well,” Forrest coach Becky Cheatham said. “As I told the girls, I believe coaches and players were all disappointed, but if we use Saturday to motivate us going forward, then we should benefit from being there.”

Two red hot soccer teams met on a chilly, windy Spring night as Marshall County traveled to Cascade for a game that decided fourth place in District 12 A/AA. The Tigers, winners of six-of-seven games, including an upset win over third place Nolensville on Friday, met a Champions team that had won three games in a row. The Tigers held a 1-0 lead for the majority of the contest and dominated shots on goal, but couldn't add to its lead before the Champions tied the game with less than 10 minutes left in the second half to garner a 1-1 draw.