Today's Features

Rear Adm. Hiroaki Abe was dispatched with two battleships, one light cruiser and 11 destroyers to bombard and destroy the expeditionary airfield newly established on Guadalcanal by the Marine 1st Division. If he accomplished his mission, Japanese transports could land troops to retake the island, unopposed by American aircraft.

Saturday’s Christmas parade held special meaning for a select group of veterans.

This group of Vietnam vets who rode in the “Deuce and half” (a 2.5-ton Army truck) said seeing hundreds of cheering people smiling and waving at them was an experience that other veterans coming home take for granted these days.

But it wasn’t that way for them, coming home from Vietnam in the 1960s to an atmosphere of extensive antiwar demonstrations, to an American public who not only didn’t respect them, but also disdained them.

Former Shelby Countian Seth Edens will appear on Wheel of Fortune on Thursday night, less than a week after Heritage Elementary librarian Kathy Mansfield won big on the show.

A 1999 Shelby County High School graduate who lives in Middletown with his wife, Adrienne, Edens said he will be watching the show Thursday night at the home of his parents, Cathy and Bill Edens of Shelbyville.

Two hundred twelve years is a milestone by anyone’s standards. This weekend marks the founding of the Olive Branch United Methodist Church in 1800.

But there’s more to celebrate in the little brick church on Zaring Mill Road.

 “One-hundred fifty years ago, we moved into our ‘new’ building,” said Judy Miller, a long-time member and church secretary. “It’s funny to think of it as the new building; it’s the one we’ve worshiped in since 1862.”