Stories from Friday, September 15, 2017

The Marshall County Veterans Outreach wants to improve communication between veterans and their service providers. The group will hold a town hall meeting on Thursday, Sept. 21 at the Church Street Church of Christ annex in Lewisburg with that objective in mind...

The Lewisburg City Council meeting on Tuesday covered a grab-bag of odds and ends, but included an issue they should have handled years ago, according to the mayor. The Lewisburg City Council wants to honor Marshall County’s remaining World War II veterans at their next monthly meeting...

It didn’t end like police were expecting, but the Lewisburg Police Department has one less fugitive to worry about. Tremel Jennings, 34, of Columbia, turned himself in to police in Lewisburg on Monday. Jennings was being sought by law enforcement for a May 26 shooting on the 1400 block of Old Farmington Road...

Marshall County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Chapel Hill Police officers responded to a domestic disturbance on Old Highway 99 on Sept. 10. On scene, officers encountered Leotie Kuhns, who was described in the report as “out of control” and who was placed in the back of a patrol car...

Two important meetings for local farmers and cattle growers will be held by the University of Tennessee Agriculture Extension in September. Pesticide recertification UT Extension Marshall County will be offering Pesticide Recertification meetings. These meetings are offered for individuals that certified as a Private Applicator that have a card for the purchasing of restricted pesticides and herbicides. Renewal is every three years and the expiration date is on October 21, 2017...

Memorials August 2017 Allen, Jean “Sheet Pan”; given by Dawn Barron. Belew, James Donation to the Book Fund; given by Joyce Crigger, Sandra Cook, and Annie R. Lawrence. Ezell, Dorothy “Betty Crocker Cookbook”; given by Gene & Carolyn Williams, Virginia Coward, and Jimmy & Debbie Bradford...

It was inevitable. You go through 12 years of a hurricane drought, the longest stretch of a category three hurricane hitting the U.S. in American history, and when we get hit the climate hysterics come out of the woodwork. See, they say, global warming caused these storms. Even the Pope chided ‘climate deniers’ saying, “When you don’t want to see, you don’t see.”...

Churches are havens and shelters for needy humans. They contain no perfect specimens. Nevertheless, they are held to high standards and are embarrassed when their building doors are locked during a local crisis. Yet their mission goes on, and we would be most miserable without strong churches. ...

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree According to “Newsweek” and MSNBC, Stanford University researchers have reported startling accuracy in predicting sexual orientation by using artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of facial features in photographs. (I wonder if this also works on PAINTINGS? Could the Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile have involved thinking, “Only 500 more years until Ellen gets a talk show”?)...

“Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of him. Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?” - 1 John 5:1,5 Christians many times get so caught up in living everyday life that we easily fall into an attitude of setting God over in a corner. ...

“Well, it makes good sense to me, son. If everyone in the world your age lived out here with no more comforts than you’ve known for the past two weeks, do you think you’d look any different than they?” Jed smiled. “It’s all relative, I guess.” “You bet’cha,” said the Old Man. “For example, what do you do for a living?”...

Dear Readers: HEARTWORMS” -- the word itself is scary, but prevention and treatment are possible. Heartworm disease can result in lung damage and heart failure in dogs and cats. Symptoms? Coughing, tiredness, trouble breathing and weight loss. Prevention of heartworm is the cheaper, safer alternative to treatment. If you adopt a dog or cat from the shelter, have the animal tested for heartworm; lots of stray animals contract heartworm. The worms are spread through the bite of a mosquito...

Dear Savvy Senior, I think I’m paying too much for the medications I take. I have a Medicare Part D prescription drug plan and my out-of-pocket spending is over $4,000 thus far in 2017. When and how can I change my Medicare drug plan? Inquiring Carol...

Tennessee State Parks invites the public to a launch party for the new Tennessee Brew Works’ State Parks Blonde Ale on September 16, 2017, at Henry Horton State Park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Attendees 21 and older will have the chance to sample the beer during the Step Back in Time Festival. Samples are free, and bottles of the craft ale will be available in the park restaurant and bar. The annual event features music, craft and food vendors, storytellers, and reenactors...

Two of the three Marshall County schools will be on the road for Week 5 for Friday night gridiron action as Marshall County High School travels to Maplewood and Forrest goes to Columbia Academy, while the Cornersville Bulldogs host Mt. Pleasant. Sometimes an early bye week is not the best scenario, but for Thomas Osteen and the Marshall Tigers the extra time was a blessing as his banged up squad got a chance to recuperate.

Henry Horton State Park (Buford Ellington Golf Course) Boys Team Scores Cascade 351 Columbia Academy 356 Eagleville 408 Bobby Snell-86 Garrick Hutchinson-100 Jonah Clement-114 Jay Heffington-108 Craig Bega-117 Forrest 408 Hunter Ferguson-98 Jarvis Lyttle-99 Conner Lewis-108 JT Freguson-115 Hayden Pate-103