CORNERSVILLE - Four 16-year-old high school students here are scheduled Thursday to quiz three men running to represent Marshall and Giles counties in the state House and most of those students have some connection to the candidates.

One's been deer hunting with Ted Roop of Lynnville, the independent candidate who's been an alderman in Spring Hill. Another student is best friends with the daughter of former Marshall County Commissioner Billy Spivey, the Lewisburg Republican challenging Rep. Eddie Bass (D-Prospect) who's politically allied with the Giles County executive, the great aunt of another student asking questions during the debate.

"I don't think she'd ask me to ask something," Spivey's daughter's friend said Friday when the Marshall County Tribune interviewed the four students in their school cafeteria.

All of the students are juniors in a U.S. history class taught by Brent Adcox who introduced them as willing to ask questions on stage during the newspaper's debate scheduled to start at 6 p.m. Thursday in their school's auditorium.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. There's no admission charge.

The students are: Jacob Gentry, Cornersville, son of Matt and Ruth Ann Gentry; Britteny Crowell, Cornersville, daughter of Troy and Laurie Crowell; Drew Zudel, Petersburg, son of Amy and Mark Herman; and, Martha McMasters, Pulaski, daughter of Joy and Brad McMasters.

For more on this announcement about the upcoming debate, read Wednesday's edition of the Marshall County Tribune and updates here when warranted.