Stories from Wednesday, March 13, 2019

After winning just two games last year, the Forrest Rockets started off the 2018-2019 soccer campaign with a bang as they came away with a 3-2 come from behind win at Community Monday night in the season opener for both squads. “It feels great, the guys really stuck together today,” said first-year coach Roger Carrier. “We were up and then we were down and we came back at the end, so I’m proud of how they played.” Dalton Colvin’s right foot was the difference in the contest as the junior lifted the Rockets to victory with a pair goals off of free kicks in the last three and half minutes of the game.

The Marshall County Tigerettes could not sustain their postseason magic in Friday’s TSSAA Class 2A BlueCross Basketball Championship semifinal, suffering a tough, season-ending 46-37 loss to Westview at the Charles M. Murphy Athletic Center on the campus of MTSU in Murfreesboro. “They are one of the elite programs in Tennessee and I think we are getting to that point,” MCHS coach David Steely said. “We were ahead at the half, we were right in the game in the state semifinals, so I’m proud of the girls.”

Community Notices are published at no cost. There is no guarantee of publication. • March 14 - The Marshall County EMA Committee will meet Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Hardison Annex, 230 College Street, Lewisburg. • March 18 - The City of Lewisburg Alcoholic Beverage Commission will meet Monday at 4 p.m. at the Lewisburg City Hall Building, 131 East Church Street...

• March 16 - At MCM Library - Crochet Club at 10 a.m.; Murder @the Library at 5:30 p.m. • March 16 - Members of the Marshall County Amateur Radio Emergency Service will hold their quarterly meeting this Saturday, March 16th, at 11 a.m. in the Marshall County Office of Emergency Management conference room, Suite 100, at the Hardison Office Annex, 230 College Street, in Lewisburg. ...

Dorothy Faye “Dot” Bobo Griffy, 89, homemaker and resident of Tinsley Lane in Columbia, died Tuesday, March 12, 2019, at Bethany Center for Rehabilitation and Healing in Nashville. Born Nov. 23, 1929, in Lawrence County, TN, she was the daughter of the late Charlie Justice Bobo and the late Lula Bell Baker Bobo. On Dec. 23, 1951, she married Isaac Cleo Griffy who preceded her in death Feb. 8, 2009. Mrs. Griffy loved crocheting and was a member of Grace Church of the Nazarene...

Mr. Horace Edward Yell, 75, of Lewisburg, TN, died Tuesday morning, March 12, 2019, in Lewisburg, TN. Mr. Yell was born in Hazelgreen, AL, to his parents Robert Yell and Addie Phillips Yell. He was enlisted in the US Army during the Vietnam War. Mr. Yell was a foreman at King Pipeline and Utilities for many years and later retired there. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by nine brothers and sisters...

Mrs. Elizabeth Evone Poteete, 91, of Lewisburg, died Wednesday, March 13, 2019, at NHC Lewisburg. Mrs. Poteete was a native of Maury County, the daughter of the late Emmett and Annie Roberts Crews. She was a homemaker and member of the Primitive Baptist Church...

Tribune photo by Scott Pearson National Arbor Day is at the end of April but Lewisburg got a head start on the annual celebration, marking the day locally on Friday with the ceremonial planting of a Yoshino cherry tree on the square in front of the Courthouse Annex...

Lewisburg, Tenn. — March is Extension Month in Tennessee. Extension is a national educational program supported by USDA through the nation’s land-grant universities and administered with funding from state and local governments. In Tennessee there are Extension offices in each of the 95 counties, and UT Extension-Marshall County invites everyone to join their local celebration...