Stories from Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Pundits and predictors beware. The Forrest Rockets continued their magical mystery tour on Friday night when the Chapel Hill boys travelled to Community and came away with a gut wrenching 64-63 comeback win over the Vikings. “It’s hard to come to Community and win,” Forrest coach Randy Toombs said. “You throw out records, you throw out scores, and you throw out whose playing. It’s us and them, we are 10 minutes down the road.”

After an eight-day hiatus due to school closure because of the ice and snow last week, the Forrest Lady Rockets finally got a chance to take the floor and wash away the bad taste in their mouth from a sloppy defeat versus Nolensville on January 11. Forrest’s opponent was a familiar one at Unionville, where the Lady Rockets came up with a 66-54 coast-to-coast win over the Viqueens.

The Forrest Rockets and Marshall County Tigers took a trip in the way-back machine Monday at Chapel Hill as the intra-county rivals met in a regular season district game for the first time since 1972. It was an exciting game for the packed house as the two squads had a lot to play for and it showed with Forrest (8-12) notching a huge 76-63 comeback win to remain undefeated at 4-0 in District 12-AA play.

Unlike the boys, the Forrest Lady Rockets and Marshall County Tigerettes have played sporadically since the Zero classification era of the early 70’s, but on Tuesday night at Chapel Hill it was different, much different as both squads were fighting for the top spot in the newly formed District 12-AA standings. Forrest prevailed 42-26 thanks to a big 17-4 fourth quarter that boosted Chapel Hill to the win. “I am extremely proud of them for last night’s game,” Forrest coach Jeremy Jean said. “They came out and got after it from the tip and never let down. Marshall is a good team, but a great defensive team. It took us a little bit to figure out ways to score, but during that time the girls played a great defensive game.”

Teresa Lynn West, 59, of Lewisburg, TN died Monday, January 22, 2018 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN following a long battle with leukemia. Teresa was the daughter of Morris and Betty Young of Lewisburg. She was preceded in death by her father, Morris; grandparents, James and Lela Young, and Houston and Mary Martin; uncle H. Clay Martin and aunt Peggy Martin; and aunt Barbara Pyrdum...

Jan.29 –Feb.2, 2017 ALL MENUS SUBJECT TO CHANGE LEWISBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL Breakfast Monday: Breakfast Pizza or Cereal w/ Cheese Stick, Fresh Fruit, Juice, Choice of Milk Tuesday: Sausage & Biscuit, Fresh Fruit, Juice, Choice of Milk Wednesday: Chicken Biscuit, Fresh Fruit, Juice, Choice of Milk...

The Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski is pleased to announce that Mike Whitehead has been selected as the 2017 Employee of the Year. Mike Whitehead has served as the Assistant Director of the Applied Technology-Pulaski since August 2015. ...

DEAR ABBY: Seeing a child you love struggle with depression is such a helpless feeling. Parents wonder how to talk to them as they withdraw from the people and activities that used to bring them joy. You just want them to feel better again. Many times, parents tell themselves it’s just a phase their child will grow out of, but one in five teens is affected by depression. ...

When it came to a recent column about President Donald Trump’s preference for “executive time” that includes a healthy dose of cable news viewing and unhinged Tweeting, the reader wasn’t in the mood to hold back. “This article was just a pack of lies,” wrote a reader of the Mansfield News Journal in Mansfield, Ohio, where my column occasionally runs. ...

I’m on a diet - a miserable diet - just as millions of Americans are during January every year. And to be successful, I want the federal government to intervene. We’re fighting an obesity battle in America, after all. Our capitalistic system has accomplished economic miracles across every area of our lives. However, regrettably, capitalistic efficiency has also produced an abundance of low-fiber, high-calorie, refined-sugar foods - which our bodies convert into instant chubbiness...

Nobody is more stunned about the stratospheric sales of “Fire and Fury” than the guy who wrote it. Michael Wolff and I were talking backstage prior to his gig on Tuesday night at the Free Library of Philadelphia, and he confessed that he never saw it coming. He was convinced that he’d gotten the inside skinny about Trump’s den of dysfunction, but in our info-saturated ecosystem, with Trump under scrutiny 24/7, who could have envisioned 11 printings within 12 days of release?...

COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) — A teenage girl and her father have filed a lawsuit against a school district and a former teacher charged with kidnapping a 15-year-old student last year. Tad Cummins sparked a 39-day nationwide manhunt when he allegedly fled the state with the girl. But the lawsuit says teachers and the principal at Culleoka Unit School ignored red flags...

Greetings from Lynnville, Tennessee! The weather is like a bouncing ball, warm today and freezing cold the next and then even snow? It is probably time for us to experience snow and all older people would say, “Yes, we need a good snow to be on the ground a good week so the water will go into the ground.” We can all learn that the weather is controlled by Mother Nature and we have to take whatever she gives us in the form of weather...

MARTIN, Tenn. — The outstanding academic achievements of undergraduate students at the University of Tennessee at Martin have been honored with publication of the Fall 2017 Chancellor’s Honor Rolls for the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, College of Business and Global Affairs, College of Education, Health, and Behavioral Sciences, College of Engineering and Natural Sciences and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts...

The Chapel Hill Police Department is partnering with the Tennessee Highway Safety Office (THSO) for its fifth annual Seatbelts Are For Everyone (SAFE) campaign. This statewide initiative is designed to increase seatbelt usage and child passenger safety restraint usage through the implementation of occupant-protection programs, public events, and checkpoints throughout local communities across Tennessee. The SAFE campaign begins February 1, 2018, and concludes August 1, 2018...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Bill Haslam touted a $30 million plan Monday that focuses on prevention, treatment and law enforcement to attack an opioid epidemic that kills at least three people a day in Tennessee. The Republican governor released details of the ‘TN Together’ initiative in a news conference Monday alongside Senate Speaker Randy McNally, House Speaker Beth Harwell, Supreme Court Chief Justice Jeffrey Bivins and numerous other officials...

After their December break, the Marshall County Commission returned to work on Monday night, addressing a long-term issue and approving a measure with long term benefits. Commissioners approved the installation and manning of x-ray and metal-detecting equipment at the entrance to the Marshall County Courthouse...

2018 is shaping up to be an important election year, and Marshall County voters will get an extra opportunity to go to the polls on Thursday. Tomorrow marks the primary election day for the vacant 14th District State Senate seat. Marshall County Election Administrator Andrew Robertson said that 524 votes had been cast during the early voting period...

Chapel Hill Police requested help in identifying a suspect last week and, thanks to social media, residents responded. CHPD said that the unidentified woman entered the First Commerce Bank branch in Chapel Hill at approximately noon on Thursday and attempted to cash a fake check drawn on Church Street Church of Christ in Lewisburg, totaling $1,789.10...