Stories from Friday, June 2, 2017

It's often said that when one door closes, another door opens up and that is exactly the case for one of Cornersville High School's most decorated athletes as Makenzie Hopkins finished up her senior season at Tennessee Wesleyan College this spring and will now embark on a career inside the classroom. "My major is Elementary Education K-5 and I will begin my student teaching in the fall 2017," Hopkins said. "I have always wanted to be a teacher and I love to be around children and watch them grow."

Ruby L. Winsett, age 87, passed away on Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Lewisburg, TN. She was a native of Athens, AL., born in 1930, to the late William Elvin King and Bertha Chambers King. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Darwin Winsett and two daughters, Ruby Dean Winsett and Linda Kay Winsett...

An Atlanta Braves film crew was at the Jonathan D. Hollingsworth Memorial Babe Ruth Field in Lewisburg Tuesday night, compiling a special on 14-year old, one-armed Luke Terry, who has garnered national recognition from ESPN, NBC, USA Today, the New York Post and former major league one-armed pitcher Jim Abbott. “All this attention is just special for him,” Marshall County Babe Ruth league president Kenneth Demastus said. “Luke is the kind of kid that doesn’t necessarily want to be in the spotlight, he would rather do things to please other people.”

Dear Heloise: We recently came back from a trip, and although my husband’s LUGGAGE arrived at the hotel with us, mine was lost at the airport! However, I had planned ahead and had packed one complete outfit, including underwear and shoes, in my husband’s bags, which I wore until the airlines could get my bags to me. I also packed a complete outfit for my husband in my bag. This way, if one of us loses their luggage, we still have something to change into until our luggage arrives...

Dear Savvy Senior, My wife, who is 62, is on my health insurance plan through my employer. When I retire in a few months at 65, and go on Medicare, what are my wife’s options? Is there some kind of Medicare coverage for dependent spouses, or do we have to purchase Obamacare?...

The Old Man slowed the truck to a crawl as he neared the edge of the bluff. It was a fine place, he thought, as the truck’s engine stopped and the Old Man opened the door in one motion, allowing the early winds of a summer thunderstorm to hit him full in the face. ...

DAYTON, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission established the state’s 2017-18 hunting and trapping seasons at its May meeting which concluded Wednesday on the campus of Bryan College. Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency staff had recommended few changes to the 2017-18 regulations during its season’s preview held at the April meeting...

“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.” - Ephesians 4:26,27 Milton was a young teenager who looked up to his friend Ricky. Ricky was a couple years older and lived across the street. No matter what Ricky was doing Milton wanted to be there. ...

Democrats just lost another election, this time in Montana. Unless they are willing to do some down-on-your-knees, cry-out-to-Jesus soul searching, the only way they’ll win another election is if they collude with the Russians to steal one the way Donald Trump didn’t...

Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, was recently being interviewed and was asked about repealing and replacing Obamacare. “I don’t know how we get to 50,” he said, referring to the votes needed to pass repeal and replace. You don’t know how you get to 50? Then what in the heck are you doing in charge of the Senate?...

Many people in my hometown have been freaking out over their property tax appraisals, so it was timely that I discovered a Motley Fool article titled “Why Property Taxes Are The Most Hated Levy In America.” First, a couple of disclaimers. Since I have a child in public school, I have not felt particularly overwhelmed by my own tax bill. And I’m truly appreciative of a conscientious county employee who got two worthless buildings removed from my mother’s tax appraisal...

We greet everyone from the historic town of Lynnville, Tennessee, home to the “Purple and Gold Tigers of the Robert B. Jones High School. Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day Weekend and thanked those who have served and are serving our great country of America...

Matthew Lee Byrd to Jennifer Ross Jones Cheatham; Hunter Lee Lampley to Lacey Gayle Pratt; Patrick Eugene Mitchell to Misty Michelle Lawrence; Mychal Chase Neal to Madison Amber Corley; James Cody Tucker to Mary Marie Whaley Mathis; Dustin Lee Wright to Leslie Bianca Boyd; Shawn Michael Yauger to Amber Nichole Fralix...

On June 3, 2017, local residents will join together at the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Marshall County at Rock Creek Park, to raise funds and awareness in an effort to free the world from the pain and suffering of cancer. The event starts at 4 p.m. and concludes at 10 p.m...

Marshall County Sheriff’s deputies responded to Warner Road on May 16 after a report that a man had discharged a firearm in the direction of his neighbors. Christopher Walls told deputies that he had seen his neighbors’ horse in his garden and he had gotten his 20-gauge shotgun and fired it in the direction of the horse, and toward his neighbors as well who were also outside...

Chapel Hill’s special called meeting on Wednesday night wasn’t long, but nothing on the agenda was easy. Mayor Danny Bingham had barely gaveled the meeting to order before Alderman Marion Joyce questioned if sufficient notice had been given of the meeting...

Lewisburg Water and Wastewater will again present a proposal for water and sewer rate increase to the Lewisburg City Council at Monday’s work session. General Manager Trigg Cathey will present the department’s case to the council using data from a rate study performed by the Municipal Technical Advisory Service, a University of Tennessee office charged with consulting and training for state municipalities...

As the afternoon sun caused the temperature to rise, William (Blossom) Ezell and his wife Ann sat under a covered swing in their backyard. They were surrounded by a tableau of blooming tiger lilies, climbing clematis and tall oak trees. The swing moved slightly back and forth, as gentle as the breeze...