Stories from Friday, May 12, 2017

The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen is back at full strength after Monday’s monthly meeting. Aldermen voted to appoint Mike Faulkenberry to the seat vacated by the passing of long-time alderman Bucko Bryant in January. Faulkenberry was one of four residents who had interviewed with the board to fill the rest of Bryant’s term until 2018...

Twins James and Aaron Riggs are freshmen at Marshall County High School, and they love tournament fishing competition. The student anglers enjoy fishing so much they had to cross county lines just to find and join the Mt. Pleasant High School Bass Fishing Team in the team’s inaugural year. Mt. Pleasant is a high school located in southern Maury County...

From staff reports • On May 6, LPD responded to reports of an argument occurring in the roadway along Old Farmington Road. Officers found a female, crying and showing visible injuries to her head, neck, and shoulders. The male, Hunter Blake Gigandet, said that she had fallen down...

It was a time of celebration during the Marshall County School Board meeting on May 8. Many Marshall County students and faculty were recognized for various achievements with a reception, and this was followed by the awarding of certificates and gifts by Director of Marshall County Schools Jacob Sorrells...

Dear Savvy Senior, What types of products can you recommend to help people with hearing problems? My 65-year-old husband has some hearing issues, but doesn’t think he needs a hearing aid, so I’m looking for some alternative devices that can help. Loud Talker...

Dear Heloise: I recently returned from my honeymoon and wanted to get my WEDDING DRESS dry-cleaned and prepared for storage in the hope that one day I might have a daughter who’d want to wear it. After doing some research, I learned some very important things about preserving a wedding dress:...

Ask the New York Times and they’ll tell you President Trump has been an abject failure in his first 100 days or so. Ask Trump and he’ll tell you he’s a “yuge” success. So, which is it? It depends on how you’re keeping score. If you’re scoring by how many presidential memoranda and executive orders have been written, Trump beats Obama 51-49...

Even before I read the May 4 Wall Street Journal, I knew a little something about adventurous bicycle-related activities. When I was a teenager, a neighbor kid (one of my brother’s classmates) rode over to the house for a visit. Before saying goodbye, he confided that he had always wondered what it would feel like to ride with a flat tire; so he plunged his pocket knife into his tires and went THUMP THUMP THUMP back home...

It’s a pretty sad day when you have to pass a law to compel police officials to enforce the law, but that’s just what they did in Texas. At least one municipality in Texas has routinely thumbed its nose at federal law and federal authorities when it comes to criminal illegal aliens. ...

“Honor thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise:” – Ephesians 6:2 The bible specifically teaches that we are to fix a high value upon our parents. Seeing that we are embarking upon Mother’s Day, let us consider the high honor that God expects us to have towards our mothers...

The Old Man was ready. He felt comfortable sitting against the massive fallen oak and the old double-barreled shotgun was rock-steady, resting softly on the moss that covered the fallen tree. It would not be long now. Only seconds before he had heard the turkey leave the tree in its fearless descent to the calling hen below. The morning birds were singing loudly and the Old Man’s heart beat faster and...

The Forrest Lady Rockets completed a clean sweep of the District 9A Tournament Thursday night at the Field of Dreams in Chapel Hill with the final stroke coming on a two-run, walk off homerun by Carson Warner that capped off an 11-0 five-inning, run-rule win over Community. “It took us a while to get adjusted because we had been geared up for faster pitching and they brought in a pitcher that was a little slower and it always takes us a little while to get adjusted, so once we settled in and got a little more patient we got the job done,” Forrest coach Becky Cheatham said. “I’m really proud of Carson for getting that homerun to end the game, that was very exciting and I’m very happy for her.”

Corey Bishop has always seen the game of basketball through a different set of eyes. No stranger to the game, Bishop spent his high school days playing basketball for Forrest High School until he graduated in 2012. Now he gets to see the game through a new set of eyes and lead a team as the new Community High School Viqueen head basketball coach.

It’s very hard to beat a close rival four times in a row, but four-out-of-five over Eagleville did the trick for the Forrest Rockets, who lost the first winner’s bracket game 11-10 to the Eagles before coming away with a tough 6-3 late night win over the Rutherford county squad to claim their third straight District 9A Tournament title Wednesday night at Chapel Hill...

For the second day in a row the Cornersville Bulldogs (18-14) stared elimination in the face and refused to hang up their cleats for the season with a loser's bracket final against Richland (20-10-1) on Tuesday. The Bulldogs fell behind 3-2 in the third inning, but came alive to score eight runs over the next three innings to take out a Raider squad 10-5 that had beaten Cornersville by four combined runs in the two regular season contests.

The Bulldogs faced a win or go home situation on Monday night with a game against Grace Christian-Franklin, a team the Bulldogs fell to twice during the regular season by a combined four runs. The Bulldogs roared back from a 2-0 deficit in the fourth inning to take a 7-2 lead into the seventh before escaping with a 7-5 nail biter to advance to the final round of the loser's bracket versus Richland for a chance to play in the championship. "We were leaving guys on early," Bulldog coach Ben Putnam said. "We were getting guys on all night long but leaving them on. We finally found some ways to get them in. Wasn't always how you draw it up, but we were able to scratch them across and that was the difference in the game."

The Marshall County Tigerettes faced a do-or-die situation at Giles County Tuesday night in a District 12AA Tournament loser’s bracket game and it went down to the wire as the Lady Bobcats eked a 1-0 win to end Lewisburg’s season. “They (Giles County) have played light’s out defense against us all year,” MCHS coach Heather Denton said. “I feel like we never get a lucky play in the game---they get diving catches on line drives, ankle catches, so I knew we would have to hit and to win the ballgame and we didn’t.” Marlee Woodward fought like a warrior in the circle for the Tigerettes, giving up one earned and four hits, while striking out one and walking none in the complete game effort.

The Cornersville Lady Bulldogs started off the post-season with a bang, beating longtime rival Richland 17-2 in just three innings behind the pitching and batting of senior Kirsten Young, who gave up just three hits on the mound and drove in four runs at the plate to advance to the second round of the tournament. Cornersville ran up against an old foe on Wednesday as the Lady Bulldogs took on Columbia Academy with the chance to advance to the championship in 11A. Despite losing to CA by just one run in the first meeting and four runs in the final regular season meeting, the contest belonged to the private school from Maury County as the Bulldogs run-ruled Cornersville by a 10-0 final in just five innings at Mt. Pleasant.

Huntland 000 000 0-0 4-4 Forrest 003 005 0-8 10 1 Huntland: Courtney Frame 1-for-3, Savannah Foster 1-for-3, Lexi Finchum1-for-2, Ali Peters 1-for-3 SAC: Finchum ROE: Ali Golden LOB: 4 LP: Tara Cates Forrest: Carson Warner 2-for-4, Jasmine Runk 2-for-3, Anna Blanton 2-for-2, Katlin Leverette 1-for-3, Zoe Long 1-for-3, Ally Blanton 1-for-2, Kennedy Gillespie 1-for-3...