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Today's Features

  • VAN STOCKUM: Part 2: Some Shelby County names you may recall

    This is the 100th column that I have written for The Sentinel-News during the past six years, and during that time I have introduced readers to a long list of characters in Shelby County’s history.

    I thought it might be an appropriate time to look back over that list and revisit those individuals’ contributions to Shelby County’s development in the past 221 years.

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  • VAN STOCKUM: Part 1: Some Shelby County names you may recall

    It seems timely to return from the wars and focus once again on Shelby County.

    I have reviewed my 6 years of columns, almost 100, in The Sentinel-News, and picked out a few local individuals who have stuck out in the history and development of Shelby County.

    This is not a listing of the all the prominent individuals in our county’s history, although many are included. It is merely a selection from those about whom I have written and whose contributions have made a difference.

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  • Getting ready for a shake-up

    Could you imagine an earthquake so powerful it could make the mighty Mississippi River to flow backward?

    Pat Murphy said he can.

    Murphy even has been fishing at Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee, the body of water created by that quake in 1812.

    “It’s a strange looking lake, and you can drive along the highway near the lake and see the upheaval that it [the earthquake] caused,” Murphy said.

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  • Shelby woman’s work lands license plate

    A new specialty plate that will be on sale Monday promotes family values and even carries the national motto.

    But the ROCK Cares, In God We Trust special plate, with its American flag and patriotic red, white and blue colors, should not be confused with the Unbridled Spirit In God We Trust plate that was released by the Transportation Cabinet in 2011.

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  • Group from Shelby attends Inauguration Day 2013

    Tired but happy and still relishing the excitement of taking part in an event that will be forever recorded in both the history books and in their hearts, a bus load of Kentuckians headed home Monday night from Washington D.C., where they attended the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.

    The charter’s 40 passengers included about 10 people from Shelby County who had journeyed to the nation’s capitol to attend the festivities, an experience some of them said they would never forget.

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  • Jackson surprised at statewide honor

    Shelby County School Board member Brenda Jackson said she was ready to applaud the student who was going to be recognized by the state for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Citizenship Award.

    “And then I realized that he [Superintendent James Neihof] was talking about me,” she said of a moment during a recent meeting. “It was really kind of funny, I was ready to clap for the student.”

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  • STAPLETON: Some tips for losing weight

    One way to improve or maintain your health is to eat right. Here are some tips on eating from the American Chiropractic Association:

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  • Shelby Countians are fired up about weapons

    Shelby County doesn’t have a large market for firearms, with only a few establishments that sell them, but people involved in the industry say public interest in firearms has been soaring in the four weeks since 20 children and seven adults were killed by a single shooter in Connecticut.

    That tragedy has really hit home for a lot of people in Shelby County, said Stewart Shirley, a former Shelbyville Police Chief who is a shooting instructor and teaches classes for conceal-and-carry permits.

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  • Shelby County filmmaker, Louisville ballerina realize their dreams

    Wendy Whelan had a dream. One day she would become a star ballerina, dancing principal roles and creating her own interpretation of music and art through dance.

    Tom Thurman also had a dream. One day he would document the stories of musicians and artists, to share his appreciation for the arts.

    The work of these two Kentucky natives comes together in “Wendy Whelan: Moments of Grace,” an episode in the KET series Kentucky Muse that tells the story of a prima ballerina from Louisville.

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  • STAPLETON: Your neck may cause your headaches

    One of the leading causes of a headache is tension in the muscles of the neck. And in this time of layoffs, foreclosures and shrinking retirement funds, who among us is without stress?

    Spinal manipulation, the primary art of the chiropractor, has been shown to be effective in easing the problem of tension headaches. Results of a Duke University study released in 2001 showed that spinal manipulation created an almost immediate improvement in headaches that originated in the neck.

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