Stories from Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Mrs. Mary Frances Howell McGowan, age 90, of Chapel Hill, TN, died Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, at her residence. She was a native of Marshall County, TN and the daughter of John Henry and Mary Wright Howell. Mrs. McGowan was a member of the Chapel Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church and was retired from Faber Castell Corporation with over 30 years of service. ...

The Marshall County High School Beta Club inducted new members on Thursday, Sept. 28. President Caleb Estes, Vice-President Leah Hollingsworth, and Secretary/Treasurer Santana Suon conducted the ceremony and the celebration of new members that followed. Several parents and guests were on hand to join the event. To commemorate the occasion, inductees received club pins and certificates...

DEAR ABBY: Last year I had a baby with one of my college professors. He left me 10 days before our daughter was born and has never met her. I chased him through family court, and he gives me the bare minimum in state-ordered support. Recently, I spotted him advertising himself on a dating website as a loving man and describing how he loves his first daughter with no mention of ours (he has two other children, a girl and a boy). ...

• The South Central Human Resource Agency will distribute commodities Thursday, Nov. 2, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at The Powder Room, 570 West Church St., Lewisburg. These commodities will be issued to elgible area residents on a first come first serve basis. ...

• The Knights of Columbus is hosting a Spaghetti Dinner at St. John’s Catholic Church, Saturday, Nov. 4, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. All you can eat for $10, children 5 - 12, $5, and children under 5, free. • Building Bridges of Hope will be offering an eight week course for care givers and those with mental disorders. The next meeting will be on Nov. 5, 3:30 to 5:30 at Bethlehem Baptist Church, 3347 Franklin Pike, Lewisburg, TN. Call 931-637-4854 or 931-270-8584 for more information...

It’s the first rule of crisis communications: When you’re in the hole, the first thing you do is to stop digging. But if you’re President Donald Trump, you equip yourself with a hardhat with a miner’s light, reflective gear, heavy-duty gloves, and fire up Mary Anne, the reliable steam shovel from “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel,” and commence digging even deeper...

Three years ago this month, returning to my hotel room in Flagstaff, Arizona, I wrote: At least once in a lifetime every American should lay eyes on the Grand Canyon, whose brilliant colors and dazzling erosional landscape inspire a kind of planetary patriotism. Stretching 277 miles long and a mile deep, it is perhaps our nation’s greatest natural treasure...

Excuse me, but didn’t I write this column already? Didn’t I point out a while ago that when it comes to asking the Russians to mess with our presidential elections the real pros of collusion have always been the Democrats? Now I remember. In a column for Newsmax late last year I pointed out several well-documented instances in 1979, 1980 and 1984 where prominent Democrats connived with Moscow to advance their own presidential chances or damage my father’s...

Greetings from Lynnville, Tennessee located on the banks of Robertson Fork Creek. Hope everyone is enjoying the nice fall weather. The Town Square of Lynnville is beautifully decorated for the fall season with hay, pumpkins, chrysanthemuns, and other fall decorations. We thank everyone who decorated the town...

September 2017 Bush, Susan Batton Sumrall “Tidy”; given by Amy & John Harmon. Ewing, Melvin Jr. “Hello World”; given by Billy & Judy Harwell. “Schomburg, The Man Who Built a Library”; given by Commerce Metals. Grogan, Grant Watson “Electric October”; given by Roy & Phyllis Huey...

The autumn frosts are rapidly approaching, and while the cool weather is usually good for grasses like tall fescue and orchardgrass, livestock producers should be aware of using grasses in the sorghum family during this period. Grasses in the sorghum family, such as sorghum, sorghum-sudan, and johnsongrass, can be toxic after a frost. ...

For the second year, Columbia State Community College was named as one of 150 community colleges eligible to compete for the 2019 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. This prize is the nation’s signature recognition of high achievement and performance in America’s community colleges...

Employment numbers for Lewisburg and Marshall County remain strong heading into the end of the year. The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development released September’s preliminary unemployment numbers last week. The county ranked eighth in the state with an unemployment rate of 2.5 percent, down from August’s 3.1 percent figure...

Local law enforcement’s plans for controlling the White Lives Matter rally in Shelbyville Saturday worked out. During the rally, protesters and counter-protesters shouted epithets, sometimes obscenities, at one another but they were kept apart and none of the arguments had a chance to come to blows...

The white supremacist marches in Shelbyville and Murfreesboro on Saturday were already close enough to home, but they spilled over into Marshall County that afternoon. Protests in Shelbyville were tense but trouble-free, with only one arrest for disorderly conduct being made...