Stories from Wednesday, June 14, 2017

The nightcap of the Monday night doubleheader was all Elks as the visiting team banged 14 hits over four innings to beat Matthews by a score of 22-5 in a game called early by run-rule. Matthews was able to cut the Elks’ lead to 8-4 following the second inning despite picking up just one hit in the game, but the Elks continued to score runs with ease with 14 over the final two innings.

Marshall Medical Center (MMC) jumped on A-Plus Collision Center early in the opening game on Monday night at the Jonathan D. Hollingsworth Memorial Babe Ruth Field, taking a 4-0 lead after one inning and then scored at least one run in three out of the next four innings to walk away with a 9-1 victory in six innings. Despite scoring just one run, A-Plus had several chances to tighten the game up, but left six runners on base with three in scoring position in the eight-run loss.

LYNCHBURG, TN (June 13, 2017) – The Motlow State Bucks have added a pair of transfers from Tennessee Tech University to the growing list of newcomers to the baseball program for the 2017-18 school year, according to Head Coach Dan McShea. McShea recently announced that both Carson Pack and Logan Walters have signed a National Letter of Intent to continue their baseball careers as student-athletes at Motlow. ...

Melissa Vance Tankersley Mahaffey, age 59 of the Rockvale Community, died Saturday, June 3, 2017, in Alive Hospice Nashville. Melissa was born in Marshall County, TN, Feb. 7, 1957, the daughter of the late Vance and Luna Jewel Brashears Tankersley. She was a homemaker...

Seven individuals earned new FCC amateur radio licenses at an examination session held this past Saturday at the Marshall County Office of Emergency Management. The tests, sponsored by the Marshall County Amateur Radio Society, were administered by “ham” operators from the Maury Amateur Radio Club. Three others, already licensed, one from Pikeville, Bledsoe County, and two from Lewisburg, passed examinations to upgrade their license class...

COLUMBIA, TN – The Maury Regional Health Care Foundation recently funded a request for $16,000 to provide naloxone to first responders in the region. Naloxone is a medication that blocks the effects of opioids and reverses an overdose. Opioids are a class of drugs that include illegal substances such as heroin as well as prescription pain relievers such as oxycodone, hydrocodone and morphine. ...

The Lewisburg Fire Department is showing its support for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) as its members kick off the annual Fill the Boot fundraising campaign to help kids and adults with muscular dystrophy, ALS and related muscle-debilitating diseases live longer and grow stronger...

DEAR ABBY: My wife recently started a new yoga class she really likes. But I made the mistake of telling her that the instructor and I had dated briefly (had sex) when we were around 15. I am 50 now and my wife is 45. I was a promiscuous drunk when I was in high school and college. I have been sober now for 28 years, and we have been together for 22 years. I have not been with another woman since I met my wife...

Michelle Obama was a very good first lady. To some, she was one of the best. She should be remembered fondly, even by those who did not vote for her husband. I only wish that the people on the other side of the political aisle would reach across the divide and say some positive things about Melania Trump. I also wish chocolate flowed in rivers and lollipops cropped up in my garden, that gold dripped in lacy threads like moss from the trees and every day was a paid holiday...

“Comey is the most honest, non-partisan public servant in America. Also, he leaks memos to [the] media to settle personal scores against [the] President.” ---- tweet by national radio host Buck Sexton James Comey is a victim of his own self-perception...

xI learned how to keep golf balls from bashing me in my shins. That was the most important skill a kid could learn at the driving range where I worked. I was in the eighth grade. The lousy job paid only $1 per hour. Though I usually picked golf balls early in the morning before the golfers arrived, sometimes I worked the evening shift. I’d put a big cage over my shoulders and head and pick golf balls while dozens of golfers tried to bean me...

Hope everyone is enjoying the nice warm weather with summer just around the corner. Remember Father’s Day is Sunday, June 18, 2017. There are not many farms that stay in one family for 100 years, but the George W. Stallings, Sr. Farm located on East Highway 129 (Cornersville Road) has been in the family for a century. ...

Community Notices are published at no cost. There is no guarantee of publication. • The Marshall County Election Commission, 230 College Street, Suite 120, Lewisburg, will meet Monday, June 19, 2017, at 9 a.m. To conduct election business which comes before the commission pursuant to its duties listed in, but not limited to. T.C.A. § 2-12-116, and to conduct any other business that may come before the commission at that time. 931-359-4894 M-F 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. mcec@bellsouth.net...

Sunday, June 11, the Liggett Street Church of God awarded two students scholarships during the church’s annual Elizabeth C. Trice Memorial Scholarship Celebration. The family of former church member and philanthropist, the late Elizabeth C. Trice, awarded a scholarship to church member, Myles Kumrow. ...

A man convicted of attempted murder was sentenced Friday to 25 years in jail. He will also serve an additional two years on a reckless endanerment conviction. Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell sentenced James Dominic Stevenson to the maximum possible for the September 5, 2015, shooting of his ex-girlfriend...

The sound of gunfire shattered the normally quiet evening on Thursday in Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill Police officers responded to the 500 block of Depot Street in town after reports of shots fired around 9:30 p.m., June 8, Other phone calls from residents led officers to an injured man nearby on Biggers Street...

The Lewisburg Police Department has identified a suspect in a May 26 shooting in the 1400 block of Old Farmington Road. A warrant for attempted first degree murder has been issued for Tremel Jennings of Columbia. Jennings is charged for the early morning incident during which he allegedly entered the home of Eric Young, fired multiple shots and hit Young five times...

The lobby of a manufacturing plant is an odd place for a music venue, but for the Tuesday Night Pickers, a group of musicians who gather each week at Wallker Die Casting Inc., on Higgs Road, it’s all about the music, not the place where the music is played...