Stories from Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Dont’a Hightower is the best player I ever saw in high school and his prep excellence earned him a scholarship to the University of Alabama where he had a storied career as a two-time team captain for the Crimson Tide, roaming the middle of Nick Saban’s defense to earn two national titles. Saban is one of the top college football coaches of all-time and the same thing Saban saw in high school, Bill Belichick saw at Tuscaloosa.

The Associated Press' Top 10 teams in each of Tennessee's three Division I non-financial aid classifications and in the combined Division II financial aid classification as selected by Tennessee AP-member sportswriters and broadcasters. With first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 4, total points based on 10 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 10th-place vote:...

The Associated Press' Top 10 teams in each of Tennessee's three Division I non-financial aid classifications and in the combined Division II financial aid classification as selected by Tennessee AP-member sportswriters and broadcasters. With first-place votes in parentheses, records through January 28, total points based on 10 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 10th-place vote:...

The fifth-ranked Fayetteville (21-4, 8-1) Tigers and the Cornersville (9-12, 2-7) Bulldogs met Friday night in a District 8-A battle. The Tigers proved too much for the Bulldogs as they easily rolled to a 64-27 victory and a sweep of the district series. Both teams, as well as their communities are in the middle of battling illness with players on both sides having to play through to continue the season’s remaining games.

The Fayetteville (4-17, 0-8) Lady Tigers came calling on the Cornersville (11-14, 2-7) Lady Bulldogs for a District 8-A contest on Friday night. The Lady Bulldogs, led by Sarah Beth Prosser’s 14 points, came out ready to go in the third quarter, then survived a fourth quarter comeback by the Lady Tigers to claim a 42-37 victory. The win enabled the Lady Bulldogs to gain a sweep of the season series and prevent a last place finish in the district standings.

The Forrest Rockets, buoyed by the girls win in double overtime, had Marshall County on the ropes Friday night at Chapel Hill before a big second half comeback turned in to an 82-70 win for the Tigers in the intra-county rivalry. 2017-2018 Class 2A Mr. Basketball KJ Johnson put on a show, wheeling and dealing his way to a game-high 37 points, including 15 points in a high-scoring second period. Johnson was also deadly from the free throw line, canning 8-of-11 attempts from the charity stripe with six free throws coming in the third quarter Tiger comeback.

It was a packed house Friday night at Chapel Hill as the Forrest Lady Rockets took on Marshall County High School in a late season intra-county rivalry contest that also big implications on the regular season District 12-AA standings. The fans got their money’s worth as the game went the distance and more with Forrest taking a 45-41 double-overtime senior night win.

Longtime Marshall County High School head baseball coach Joe George has been selected as one of five inductees into the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association’s Hall of Fame Class of 2019. George will be inducted along with Jim Barr, administrator from Nashville; Ike White, administrator from Memphis; Tommy Colvin, coach from Humboldt; Mickey Marley, coach from Jackson; Hubie Smith, coach from Nashville; and Tom Weathers, coach from Chattanooga at the annual ceremony at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in Murfreesboro on Saturday, April 13.

Debra Kaye Hollingsworth, 64, of Lewisburg, died Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, at her home. Mrs. Hollingsworth was a native of Marshall County, the daughter of the late Robert and Elizabeth June Wallace Sullivan. She was a former employee of Cosmolab. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by three brothers, Jimmy Sullivan, Billy Joe Sullivan, and Larry Sullivan. ...

Georgia Kay Rutledge Glascock, 61, of Lewisburg died Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, at Maury Regional Hospital. Mrs. Glascock was a native of Lewisburg, the daughter of the late, Otis Rutledge and Kathleen Smith Rutledge of Lewisburg. She graduated from Cornersville High School in 1975, worked at Cosmolab for 33 years and Ibex Global for 2 years, and was a member of the church of Christ...

Columbia State Community College is pleased to announce the fall 2018 graduates. Approximately 230 students graduated from Columbia State Dec. 15, 2018, with 156 degree and certificate candidates recognized during the fall commencement ceremony. Kelsey Collins of Lewisburg graduated with an Associate of Science in Tennessee Transfer Pathway Business Administration...

BELL BUCKLE, Tenn. - The Webb School recently announced its A and B honor rolls for the first quarter of the 2018-2019 school year. An independent college preparatory day/boarding school for grades 6-12, The Webb School is the oldest continuously operating school of its kind in the South. The school has a dual emphasis on academic excellence and character development...

Chapel Hill, TN - Joseph Fowler, DPT, OCS, a Doctor of Physical Therapy will be opening a branch of Benchmark Physical Therapy to serve the Chapel Hill community and surrounding areas in mid-March with high quality, personalized physical therapy services...

In 2016 the Tennessee Bluebird Trail dissolved their non-profit and were kind enough to donate the remaining balance of their funds ($387.93) to the Friends of Henry Horton State Park. After numerous conversations at our Friends meetings concerning how best to use the funds, we had a local craftsman named Joe Gamino (Joe is retired from General Motors in Spring Hill) and his woodworking assistant Carter Sublette offer to build several bluebird houses for us if we could provide the cost of the materials. ...

Holts Corner, Tenn. – For 100 years, the Manier family has cared for their rolling hills, meandering creek, and fertile pastures in Holts Corner. Now, they can take comfort in knowing that the 90 acres they have farmed for a century will be conserved for future generations. ...

Twin Elms Farm, also known as the Patterson Farm, currently owned by John O. and Beth Kerr Chunn of Chapel Hill, has recently been designated a “Tennessee Pioneer Farm” under the Tennessee Century Farm program. This Sunday afternoon, Feb. 3, at 2 p.m. ...

Freed-Hardeman University has released the names of students who made the President’s List and the Dean’s List for Fall 2018. Seven students from Marshall County received these academic honors. Three students were named to the President’s List. They were: Preston Bennett, a freshman finance major from Chapel Hill; Jacob Rich, a freshman accounting major from Chapel Hill; and Will Smith, a freshman English major from Lewisburg. ...

On Jan. 15, 2019, the Mother to Mother organization brought their bus to Lewisburg to distribute much needed items to families in need. Mother to Mother, Inc. is a non-profit organization, based out of Nashville, founded by Janie Busbee in 2004. “We saw the needs that case workers and hospital nurses have when parents don’t have the basic needs to care for a child,” Busbee said...