Stories from Wednesday, December 20, 2017

The FMS Rockets were on their way to a Duck River Valley Conference Tournament title on Saturday at Community when it all fell apart, losing to Cascade 39-27. Forrest led 21-16 entering the fourth quarter when Cascade came storming back, scoring 21 points in the final six minutes to win going away.

In a rare meeting between Division I and Division II schools, the Marshall County Tigers hosted the Montgomery Bell Academy Big Red Friday night in Lewisburg. The Big Red had won three-out-of-four meetings between the two schools since 2001 and the Nashville all boys academy made it four wins in a row over the Tigers with a nail-biting 62-60 win.

The Marshall County Tigerettes wanted to make a big impression on the 2008 state champion team being honored Friday night at Dottie Kelso Memorial Gymnasium in Lewisburg. “We wanted to impress them because we knew they were the state champions and we wanted to show them we are following the tradition,” MCHS junior Demariae Ingram said.

Class 4A OFFENSE QB – Cade Ballard, Greeneville QB – Stanton Martin, Anderson County RB – Kamron Liggett, Marshall County RB – Dontae Smith, Spring Hill WR – Dayron Johnson, Springfield WR – Keveon Mullins, Memphis East WR – Dalton Wilson, Anderson County OL – Dawson Bragg, White House OL – Chris Everhart, Greeneville OL – Nick Rideout, Greeneville OL – Dave Roberts, Marshall County OL – Thomas Roberts, Anderson County ATH – Michael Jamahl McGhee, Chattanooga Central K – Clayton Utley, Anderson County

On November 4th the Marshall County Elks Lodge 1990 held its annual Elks Hoop Shoot at the Lewisburg Recreation Center. Winners are: 8-9 year old girls 1st Abbigail Tenpenny 2nd Clarissa Scheetz 10-11 year old girls 1st Cassidy Baus 2nd Kira Beach 12-13 year old girls...

DEAR ABBY: A year ago, my husband confessed that he was having an affair at work. Before it started, he tried setting “Velma” up with his twin brother, but she said she wasn’t interested. Their affair lasted for months, until the guilt “ate him up.” When he told me, I was devastated...

Democrats can dream all they want. They and their soulmates in the liberal media can celebrate the victory by Doug Jones in Alabama’s U.S. Senate race until next fall. They can continue to fool themselves into thinking that Republican candidate Ray Moore’s narrow defeat was a sign from above that the Democratic Party will regain control of Congress in 2018...

As war continues to be waged over tax reform and the Affordable Care Act, a more subversive battle to eliminate consumer and environmental protections continues to rage. With the stroke of a pen, the president has swatted away bothersome regulations at the behest of corporate interest groups as though they were so many annoying flies...

I dream of “White Christmas” this year. I speak of the Irving Berlin classic made famous by Bing Crosby - a sweet, wistful song that holds more power over me with each passing year. According to CBS News, many speculate that Berlin was inspired to write the song in the late 1930s, while working on a movie in Beverly Hills and feeling homesick for his family in New York...

Susan Hunter was elected in September of 2012 to represent Marshall County Board of Education’s 7th District and went on to win her re-election bid in 2016. Her current term expires in 2020. Hunter said it was an “eye-opening” experience when she first joined the Board and realized “the enormity and complexity of the budget necessary to operate the school system. ...

PULASKI, Tenn. – Martin Methodist College (MMC) is excited to announce its new Teacher Assistant to Teacher Licensure Program beginning in January 2018. The program is designed to help teacher assistants in the surrounding counties take the next step to teacher licensure. ...

This time of year many of us are cleaning up our yards, flower beds or gardens. Most of the trees have given up a season’s worth of leaves and flowers and vegetable crops have long died. Instead of piling it all up and burning it or sending it to the landfill, consider turning all of this presumed “waste” into a resource that can benefit next year’s flower bed or garden. Let’s turn it into compost...

• At the Marshall County Memorial Library: Dec. 21, Family Storytime in Lewisburg at 9:30 a.m., Homeschool group 1 p.m., Genealogy help from the DAR at 5 p.m.; Hours at the library in Lewisburg, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Chapel Hill closed; Dec. 23, Lewisburg hours 9 a.m. ...

• There will be a Road Committee Meeting for the Marshall County Highway Department on Dec. 21, 2017, at 8 a.m. located at the Marshall County Highway Department. The Marshall County Highway Department is an equal opportunity employer. • Lewisburg Water and Wastewater will be having their monthly Board meeting on Dec. 21 at 12 p.m. located at 100 Water Street...

From staff reports Lewisburg Police stopped Cathy Marie Buttrey in the early morning hours of Dec. 10, after observing her driving with a broken headlight on 5th Avenue. Patrolman Kylar Gentry noted in the report that he had to use his loudspeaker, in addition to his blue lights and siren, in order for Buttrey to come to a stop at 5th and West Commerce...

An unpaid fine disqualified Lewisburg Republican Billy Spivey from running in the special election for a Tennessee Senate seat. The Bureau of Ethics and Campaign Finance in Nashville issued a letter to the Tennessee Division of Elections on Thursday, stating that Spivey was ineligible to qualify for the election...

They are veterans of what is commonly called the Forgotten War, but the Lewisburg City Council wanted to make sure that they knew their service and sacrifice were not forgotten. The council honored the county’s surviving Korean War veterans at their monthly meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 12...