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Today's Features

  • Anyone who knows Austin Blocker and Patrick Hargadon recognizes that they are best friends.

    They are also third cousins, a relationship that to some people might seem somewhat distant, but it doesn’t to them.

    “We feel more like brothers than cousins, and that’s how we look at each other,” Blocker said.

  • The monthly Downtown Concert Series returns to the Veterans Park in Shelbyville on Saturday – but with a slight twist this year.

    The concerts only will be held on Saturday nights, but they will feature the same music, food, prize drawings and other events that have been staples of these popular events in the past.

  • Bagdad Baptist youth go down memory lane

    The Bagdad Baptist Youth will host a dinner theater variety show, Memory Lane, on Friday. Take a walk back in time as this show will feature popular music and musical characters from the past.

    Musical selections include “I Heard It thru the Grapevine,” “Leader of the Pack,” “Gitarzan,” “Mississippi Squirrel,” “9 to 5,” and will include many more surprises.

  • Former students of three of Shelby County’s musical teachers perform at the Ernie Threlkeld/Susie Saunders/Mel Owen Memorial Jam on Saturday in Mike Casey Gymnasium at Shelby County High School. The session also included ensemble groups from Collins High School and SCHS and benefitted those schools’ music programs.

  • Don and Brenda Richardson announce the engagement of their daughter Courtney Allison Richardson to Philip Cameron Sturgill, son of Ken and Leslie Sturgill, all of Georgetown.

    She is the granddaughter of Lucille Stucker of Shelbyville, the late Gilbert Stucker, the late Howard Richardson and the late Hazel Richardson. He is the grandson of Tom Sturgill, D.J. Fendley, the late Pat Sturgill and the late Ken Fendley.

  • This week
    Princess and pirate tea at library
    A princess and pirate tea party will be at the Shelby County Public Library. Preschool-aged children will be from 11 a.m. to noon on Friday and preschool-through-third-grade on May 18. Children may wear princess or pirate clothing or Sunday dress. Registration is required, with a maximum of 50 children. For more information or registration, call 633-3803.
    Blood drives in Shelby

  • A couple of hundred people turned out for the eighth annual Women’s Health Fair on Thursday night at Claudia Sanders Dinner House. The event, sponsored by Jewish Hospital Shelbyville, focused on colon cancer awareness this year and included a silent auction, health screenings, salon treatments, and featured speakers such as prominent physicians and JHS president, Michael Collins. Proceeds from the event will go to support teen volunteer scholarships.

  • Ex-students hold concert to honor former teachers

    Musicians performing at a concert this Saturday at Shelby County High School will celebrate the work of former teachers during the Ernie Threlkeld/Susie Saunders/Mel Owen Memorial Jam.

    Each of the teachers is now deceased  (Threlkeld passed away in October). and that inspired  dozen or more of their students to pick up their instruments.

  • Joe and Kay Krug, of Shelbyville stand with Desert, a greyhound-mix, who won first place for best Civil War costume and Best of Show during the 15th annual Greyhounds in Gettysburg at the Allstar Expo Center. The 3-day event organized by Nittany Greyhound will raise about $20,000 for future adoption of greyhounds from a shelter in western Pennsylvania.

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