Stories from Friday, August 25, 2017

IRVING, Texas (Aug. 23, 2017) – As the season draws near, the month of August provides the perfect time for the National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame to highlight the key rule changes that will take effect during the 2017 college football season. Since 2011, the NFF has partnered with Rogers Redding, the national coordinator of College Football Officiating (CFO), to help generate awareness for the rule changes in college football through a series of regular columns distributed by the NFF. The CFO functions as the national professional organization for all football officials who work games at the collegiate level, and the organization held its annual winter meeting of conference coordinators for football officials in late January for the fifth consecutive year at the NFF headquarters in Irving, Texas.

This should be an exciting Friday night under the stadium lights for the three Marshall County football squads with the Marshall County Tigers and Forrest Rockets looking to bounce back from home losses, while the Cornersville Bulldogs are hoping to move to 2-0 for the first time since 2007. The Bulldogs are loaded with upperclassmen talent and it was on a bright display last week when they pounded the Community Vikings 55-14 at Frog Bottom. “The guys were very excited about the win on Friday Night against Community,” Cornersville coach Gerard Randolph said. “A bunch of guys stepped up and did some really good things on the field that night.”

It’s not unusual to walk outside my house most any weekend during the daytime and hear my distant neighboors target shooting. At nearly any point on the compass, I can hear the sweet sound of people celebrating their 2nd Amendment rights. Amid the gunfire, I can typically hear the unmistakable stacatto, rapid fire of multiple AR15s plinking away at targets. Frequently, I join the fun and make some noise of my own...

To say that Tennessee Walking Horses are a part of Marshall County’s history would be an understatement, but it’s easy for the young and uninitiated to overlook this equine breed’s historical roots in our community. To that end, following is a list of World Grand Champion Tennessee Walking Horses that have direct ties to our county...

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, Marshall County has 1,790 horses and ponies. Owning a horse comes with a huge amount of responsibility. An owner has to consider important matters such as: maintaining the horse’s health, what proper nutrition may look like, what recommended vaccines may be, and if you ride your horse, how to maintain an equine athlete, just to name a few...

Dear Readers: I’ve been traveling across the country for a long time, doing book tours, giving speeches to civic and convention groups, appearing on TV shows, etc. I think I’ve earned the name “Road Warrior” with over 2.5 million miles in the air, and that’s only on ONE airline! Here are some of my FAVORITE TRAVEL HINTS:...

Dear Savvy Senior, My elderly father gets over 100 pieces of junk mail every week, and I just discovered that heÕs given away nearly $5,000 over the past few months to many of the solicitors that mail him this junk. Can you offer any tips on how can I stop this?...

“…as He (Jesus) sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on His head.” - Mark 14:3 When we read John’s gospel account of this historic supper in chapter 12, we find out that this woman’s name is Mary, and she not only anointed Jesus’ head with this very precious ointment but she also poured it upon His feet and then wiped them with her hair. ...

In the wake of the tragic events in Charlottesville, Va. - in response to the anger, violence and loss of life - many communities across the country are leading prayer vigils. I think that is a grand idea. I’m no theologian or philosopher, but at the age of 55, one thing has become evident. There is good in this world and there is evil - there is love and there is hate - and with every decision we make every moment of every day, we are moving toward one and away from the other...

Will Labor Day be recognizable in another 20 years? Certainly, changes in culture, politics and technology will affect the love-hate relationship between capital and labor. Dizzying changes await this holiday. Yes, a holiday which honors the working people of the nation and grants them time to grill burgers and commemorate gains in workplace health and safety -- while waiting to watch NFL players dutifully knock each other’s brains out...

Al Gore’s new movie, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, was an unqualified failure. It finished 21st last weekend and averaged a pathetic $644 per theater. It’s not just the hackneyed subtitle doomed it. It truly came at an inconvenient time. Gore has so exaggerated his global warming claims that it’s sent millions of people searching for the truth. ‘Exaggerated’ is being kind. Most of his claims are outright lies. Once people start scratching beneath the surface the truth is hard to hide...

Columbia State Community College was recently awarded a $200,000 grant from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission to increase student retention and on-time graduation rates. The Institutional Outcome Improvement Fund grant is intended to allow institutions to focus on student outcomes in areas such as credit hour progression and degree completion...

Molly Rozell Phifer, Chapel Hill, Tennessee, has been elected as an alternate delegate to the 134rd Annual American Angus Association® Convention of Delegates, Nov. 6 at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas, reports Allen Moczygemba, CEO of the American Angus Association...

Linda Marie Mayes vs. John Marshall Mayes Jessica Mai Leach vs. Ricky Allen Leach, Jr. Teri Lynn Patterson vs. Nicholas Daniel Patterson Krystal Hanvy vs. Dylan Hanvy Amanda Renae Hardison vs. Paul Clifford Hardison Janie Ruth Smith vs. Joseph Howard Smith...

The deadline is drawing near for students to get their immunizations so they may continue attending classes in the Marshall County School System. A letter was sent home with students on August 16 indicating which vaccines the students lacked; a final letter was sent home August 23 stating that a Certificate of Immunization must be presented to the child’s school no later than Friday, September 1, or the student will not be allowed to return after the Labor Day holiday...

The laboratory at Marshall Medical Center has earned accreditation from the College of American Pathologists, according to CEO Phyllis Brown. The accreditation follows a comprehensive on-site survey of the MMC Laboratory and its operations as part of the CAP accreditation programs. ...

Chapel Hill, TN – The end of summer is traditionally marked by the Labor Day holiday, a time for our country to reflect on the hard work of our fellow Americans. The long weekend is typically celebrated through picnics, pool parties, and barbecues, as families and friends enjoy the last few days of summer before fall and winter approach...

Two men face charges after an attempt to pass counterfeit money at Kroger in Lewisburg on Aug. 9. LPD responded at 5:15 p.m. to find off-duty Sheriff’s Office Detective Tony Nichols holding two men at gunpoint in the parking lot. Nichols happened to be in the store and was alerted after the cashier told the men that the $100 bill was counterfeit...

The Lewisburg City Council is back up to full strength. Councilmen voted unanimously to appoint C.H. Harwell to represent the city’s Third Ward at a special called meeting on Tuesday. The seat was vacated on July 3 when Councilman Bam Haislip tendered his resignation after having moved out of the district...