Stories from Friday, May 26, 2017

Forrest and Summertown had met seven times in May post-season contests prior to Thursday night’s Class A winner’s bracket final in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association’s Spring Fling Championships with the Lady Rockets winning every time. But it was the first ever state tournament tilt between the two rural small town schools and the game was an edge of the seat affair the entire time as Forrest made it eight wins in a row over the Lady Eagles via a 4-3 eight-inning triumph that ended with a walk off RBI single by Kayla Gillespie.

Columbia State Community College will host youth robotics camps for middle and high school students ages 11-14 on the Lawrence and Lewisburg campuses. The goal of each camp is to increase students’ understanding and encourage excitement for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. ...

BUGS (Bringing Up GradeS) at Lewisburg Middle School is a program that recognizes students for improving their grades. Mirroring one part of the Renaissance program at Marshall County High School, the Lewisburg Kiwanis Club contributes prizes that students who have brought up their grades are eligible to win through a drawing...

NASHVILLE – Tennessee State Parks will celebrate National Trails Day with free, guided hikes at all 56 parks on Saturday, June 3. Events will include free, ranger-led hikes through areas with waterfalls and scenic vistas as well as hikes focused on local history and trail clean-ups. ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — As part of its mission to advance education, Nashville-based financial services company Advance Financial gave $1,000 scholarship awards to 10 outstanding Middle Tennessee high school students at its 3rd Annual Scholarship Banquet. Student applications were judged on GPA, community involvement and persevering over hardships in their lives...

Cornersville School is proud to declare Alex Cohoon and David Wells as Students of the Month for April. Each month teachers are given the opportunity to nominate deserving students based on character, citizenship, and overall behavior. Alex’s teachers describe him as respectful and positive. ...

Dear Heloise: What is MICROFIBER? How is it labeled at a store? What are brands to look for? -- A Reader, via email Microfiber is a synthetic fiber that’s one-fifth the diameter of a human hair. The most common types of microfibers are produced from polyesters, polyamides and, occasionally, polypropylene, with a common ratio of 80/20 and 70/30. There are a number of factors that affect quality and performance of a microfiber fabric -- in fact, too many to list here...

Dear Savvy Senior, I’ve recently read that all baby boomers should get tested for hepatitis C. Is this really necessary, and if so, what are the testing and treatment procedures? Healthy Boomer Dear Healthy, It’s true. Both the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that all baby boomers – people born from 1945 through 1965 – get a hepatitis C test...

Toni Evola to Jacki Lynn Moss; Mario Gomez to Yanesia Estrada; Joshua Michael Martin to Caryn Headden; Dudley Mitchell to Breanna Massey; James Gunter Roper to Miranda Carneiro; Joe Edd Swinney III to Hannah Cross; Travis Lee Arthur to Payton Wells; David Farr to Katie Willett; Kody Andrew Klaren to EmilyWandell...

“…The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” - James 5:16b There are many passages in the Bible about prayer but this passage of scripture in James is so important because it highlights or accentuates prayer. Pray should not be an exercise that we do out of duty. It should not be cold, routine, or indifferent, but according to our verse it should be “effectual” and “fervent.”...

This year I have again not been asked to deliver any commencement addresses. Nevertheless, as in the past, I will use this space to share my wisdom with the latest crop of graduates. I once heard a commencement speaker urge students to brush their teeth. Whether she was grasping at a clever metaphor for handling life after college or she actually felt that a diploma along with good dental hygiene were keys to happiness, I couldn’t tell. Commencement speeches come in many flavors...

I’ve always chafed at the term “love child” being reserved for the product of an illicit affair, thus implying that children born into a stable, committed home are merely property or tax deductions. Similarly, I have qualms about designating the warm months of 1967 as “THE Summer of Love.” (As Wikipedia condenses it, the Summer of Love was a social phenomenon involving as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions and counter-culture views, converging in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.). ...

If you’ve even heard of the Seth Rich story it’s probably as some wild conspiracy theory. That’s if the mainstream media have covered it at all. You’ve probably heard that Fox News pulled their recent story about him. That much is true, but that doesn’t change the mysterious facts around the case which carry much more weight than any Trump/Russia collusion...

Marshall County Sheriff’s deputies, along with a trooper from the Highway Patrol, responded to Carl Fox Road on May 15 after a domestic disturbance was reported. The subject, Scott Batts, reportedly had been drinking and was armed with a shotgun while making threats toward his girlfriend and law enforcement officers...

The Marshall County Shreiff’s Office got their man on Wednesday morning in Lewisburg. Chief Deputy Bob Johnson announced that deputies had captured Billy Trapani, an inmate who walked away from a work detail at the Marshall County Recycling Hub at the end of April...

Graduation, a time where students and parents compress four years’ worth of memories into one magical night onto one blue cap. The class of 2017 experienced a new sense of liberation this week as the new graduates spread their wings and left high school forever...

A tightly folded American flag is passed from the hands of a kneeling United States Marine to those of a quivering, 8-year-old boy at his father’s funeral. Instantly, an iconic wartime photo is captured. In April of 2007, photojournalist Aaron Thompson was in Bedford County covering the funeral of Lewisburg native, Marine Staff Sgt. ...