Stories from Friday, June 16, 2017

First place Marshall Medical Center took on winless Matthews Team Sports in the Tuesday night Babe Ruth opener and came away with an 11-3 five inning, run-rule win. Logan Courtamanche and Blake Aldridge teamed up on the mound for MMC as Courtamanche picked up the win, tossing all three’s in the stat column. Courtamanche pitched three innings, gave up three hits, three earned runs, struck out three and walked three. Aldridge tossed two innings of hitless ball, striking out five and walking three Matthews’ batters.

The Lewisburg Elks Lodge #1990 continued their late-season hot streak with a tough 5-1 win over Nichirin Tuesday night at the Jonathan D. Hollingsworth Memorial Babe Ruth Field in Lewisburg. The Elks (6-1) have won four games in a row since losing to Marshall Medical Center (6-1), who picked up a forfeit win over Nichirin on Wednesday. The two first place squads have spilt a pair of games this season and have one more matchup remaining.

Two prison inmates overpowered two corrections officers transporting them along with more than 30 other prisoners and shot the officers dead to make their escape in rural Georgia Tuesday morning. One of the inmates, Donnie Russell Rowe, 43, is from Lewisburg, Tenn., where his mother and other family members live today...

The two Georgia fugitives captured near Beech Grove early Thursday night terrorized a Shelbyville-area couple for more than three hours earlier in the afternoon, Sheriff Austin Swing said. Donnie Russell Rowe, 43, a Lewisburg native, and Ricky Dubose, 24, who killed two corrections officers in Georgia on Tuesday, forced their way into a Kingree Road home about 1:30 p.m., according to Swing...

At the crest of the highest ridge in four counties, the Old Man paused at the trail’s edge. Looking out over the wooded hollow below, he felt the excitement tighten his stomach. He pondered on the rolling creek with its clear cold water that swirled and eddied at every fallen tree and deepened bank. ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Ticks and mosquitoes are now out in force and looking for food. The meal of choice for both is blood, creating opportunities to spread a variety of serious illnesses such as Zika Virus Disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever as they move from one bite victim to another...

Dublin #100 - Dublin is a male Rottweiler/Shepherd mix found as a stray on Brookhollow Road in Chapel Hill. He is all male! He is not housebroken and was more than likely out looking for a girlfriend. He seems to be good natured and curious about everything. ...

“Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. When you go, your steps shall not be hindered; and when you run, you shall not stumble. Take fast hold of instruction…” Proverbs 4:10-13...

The Lewisburg City Council passed the first reading of a proposed water rate increase on Tuesday night, but not without some soul-searching. The idea of a rate increase has met with some resistance, although Lewisburg Water and Wastewater General Manager Trigg Cathey has presented studies to the council showing that increased costs, debt service, and required improvements to the system make an increase necessary...

Dear Readers: Today’s SOUND OFF is about the phone bill’s added charges and taxes. -- Heloise “Dear Heloise: I recently moved into my first apartment and was shocked to discover that my phone bill, which includes a landline, my computer and cellphone, was about 25 percent to 30 percent taxes! I called the phone company and asked for an explanation of my bill, because there were things on there that I’d never heard of. ...

Dear Savvy Senior, I would like to hire a personal assistant/home helper for my mom to assist with some simple household chores like house keeping, errand running, driving her to the doctor, and keeping her company. But mom doesn’t require personal/physical caregiving nor does she require any home medical care. Any tips to help us find someone?...

You’re familiar with the expression, “Be careful what you wish for,” I’m sure. The Democrats certainly are. Their whole “Get Trump” scheme seems to be blowing up in their faces. First, contrary to a top story on CNN just two days prior, former FBI Director James Comey testified that President Trump had been exactly right. ...

“There’s no need to fear – underboob is here!” I couldn’t help thinking that when I saw a recent USA Today article titled “The Underboob Trend Pops Off Beaches On To Red Carpets, Catwalks, Social Media.” Although other commitments kept me from being in the cast, many moons ago when I was attending Connelly Junior High School, the school presented a musical called “The 20th Century: From Below The Ankles To Above The Knees.” As USA Today indicates, recent bosom-related developments have made that play terribly outdated.. ...

On Wednesday morning, Washington rightly fretted over the fate of a Republican congressman and three others felled by a gunman’s fire in suburban Alexandria, Va., as they practiced for a charity baseball game. But just a few miles away, on Capitol Hill, a Republican member of Congress from South Carolina was pushing a bill that would ease restrictions on silencers, making it easier, as The Washington Post noted, for shooters such as those involved in Wednesday’s incident to open fire without being heard.. ...

Justin Michael Force to Cherri Bishop; Forrest Jason Maynard to Kelsey Rose Nielson; Brandon Thomas Milstead to Victoria Anne Reina; Thaddeus Wade Smith to Angela Nicole Richards; James Richard Webster to Linda Jean Richardson Michael; Shae Nathaniel Wright to Hollyann Elizabeth Thurston...

Marshall County School System exceeds $1,000,000 in energy savings. The Marshall County School System pays a lot of attention to energy use, and because of that they are not paying a lot of big energy bills. By implementing an innovative energy conservation program, the organization has significantly cut energy use – saving $1,030,413 in less than four years. These savings can be reinvested in education and educational facilities, as opposed to being paid to utility providers...

From staff reports On the afternoon of May 30, Marshall County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a domestic violence report on Reynolds Road. The complainants told deputies that two women, Ally Dawn McGlacken and Jessica Gilson, had come to the residence and thrown nails on the front porch...

Thursday night Lewisburg seemed more like a Southern version of Lake Wobegon. The Dixie Theatre on the square hosted a television taping for the pilot of “The Pointing Dog Social Club,” a 30-minute program under development for broadcast. Dr. John White, the host of the show, describes the program as a musical variety show combined with an outdoors show, designed to celebrate Southern outdoor life and culture...

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and Chief Operating Officer of the Minth Group Jimmy Chen announced the location of a new manufacturing plant in Lewisburg. The China-based auto parts manufacturer is purchasing a 125,000-square-foot facility in Lewisburg for the production of automotive trim, as well as warehousing of components from other Minth locations...