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Following a one day rain delay, the District 3-A softball tournament got under way Tuesday at Tellico Plains.

The Midway Lady Green Waves played the first game of the session and picked up a 2-0 win over the host Lady Bears.

My husband and I have been supporters of the Roane County Animal Shelter for several years, both donating monetarily and adopting three pets from the facility. 
The last pet we adopted, about a year ago, was a robust and active Lab-mix puppy. 
He is a handful of happiness and love but after a few months we found it difficult to keep him home.
 We live in the county and he loved to roam the woods and follow the other dogs through the yard. 

I am responding to the individual who questioned the validity of the statements on the Background Check bill that failed in the Senate in my letter that ran May 3.  The only mistake that I made was listing the section as 922 when the proper section was 122(t)(4).  I have copied the exact wording as it is written.  It obviously it does not name Eric Holder in the section of the bill as it needs to apply to whoever the attorney general is at any given time.  The following is the exact wording:

Two things have prompted us to return to the topic of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
The first was a recent PBS programme “Need to Know,” wherein three college professors, and self-identified experts, expounded upon the meaning of the Amendment, erroneously, in our opinion.
The second was the recent national convention of the National Rifle Association.