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  • Business briefcase: Dec. 21, 2012

    Tumbling fuel prices may not last a week

    You may have noticed that gas prices in Shelby County dipped this week below the $3 barrier for the first time in many months, hitting $2.95 at some outlets as of Wednesday, but that could be a short-term decline.

    That’s significantly below the national average, which has fallen by 20 cents in the past month to $3.22 as of Wednesday, according to GasBuddy.com, a national petroleum prices clearinghouse.

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  • Business Briefcase, 12-14-2012

    Gajdzik’s named to leadership committee of Farm Bureau

    Matthew and Amanda Gajdzik, Shelbyville were named to the 13-member Young Farmer Committee during the Kentucky Farm Bureau’s annual meeting last week in Louisville.

    The Gajdziks are part of a group of young farmers that is comprised of both singles and couples, and they were Shelby’s only representation during KFB’s elections and appointments.

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  • Business briefcase: Dec. 7, 2012

    Adams named to board of development council

    Libby Adams, executive director of Shelby County Industrial & Development Foundation, Inc., has been elected Kentucky’s alternate director on the board of the of the Southern Economic Development Council, the SEDC announced this week.

    Adams will serve a 1-year term, beginning in January. She most recently served the SEDC as the chair of its 2011 and 2012 membership committee and has been a member of SEDC for 17 years.

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  • Pets are on shopping lists too

    The trend in buying Christmas gifts for pets is a practice has been holding steady during the past few years, according to a recent poll by AP-Petside.com.

    Of those shoppers polled this year, 51 percent said they would purchase Christmas gifts for their pets. That’s down just slightly from 53 percent in 2011 but still up significantly from 2008, when only 43 percent said they would buy gifts for Fido, Muffin or Fury.

    How much are people spending on their pets?

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  • Masonite to shut its doors

    Masonite Inc. has told employees that it will be closing its Shelbyville plant early next year.

    The company has manufactured residential and commercial doors in Shelbyville since purchasing the Shelbyville-based LEDCO in 2010. About 80 are employed in its facility at 801 Commerce Circle in Shelbyville.

    Plant General Manager Joseph Solomon, whose family started the company in Akron in 1964, said he could not answer questions about the facility’s closing, instead directing all requests to Masonite’s corporate offices.

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  • Cracker Barrel dresses up for the holidays

    If you’ve ever seen Cracker Barrel’s television commercials building up the “old country store” image, once you walk into a store during the holidays, you might be more inclined to think you’d been magically transported to the North Pole via Santa’s sleigh.

    The old country store aura with its rocking chairs and checkerboards on the front porch now includes a wonderland of toys and gift items, with something to delight kids from 1 to 92 from both the country and the big city.

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  • Business briefcase: Nov. 30, 2012

    Chamber of commerce names officers for year

    The Shelby County Chamber of Commerce announced its new officers for 2012‐2013. These officers were elected by chamber’s newly inducted board of directors at a meeting earlier this month, joining previously announced president Candi Waford of Shelby Energy.

    They are:

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  • Shelby merchants excited for the holidays

    This Christmas will be extra special for dozens of new businesses around Shelbyville who are  carving out niches for themselves.

    Most plan to participate in Small Business Saturday this weekend and say they will use that opportunity to try to draw in customers, both by having extended hours and also by having Christmas items on sale.

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  • Business briefcase: Nov. 23, 2012

    Famed moonshiner’s wife signing bottles at Coxs

    The product and family of a famed “moonshiner” will be in Shelby County next week.

    Pam Sutton, wife of renowned moonshiner Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton will be at the Coxs Smokers Outlet and Spirit Shoppe at 43 Breighton Circle at 5-7 p.m. next Friday to sign a limited edition mason jar called “The Last Run.”

    There also will be a tasting for Popcorn Sutton TN White Whiskey.

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  • EARLIER: Planning commission OKs 2nd outlet mall

    The Triple S Planning Commission followed a familiarscript Tuesday night by recommendingapproval of a zoning change for a second outlet mall for Simpsonville.

    Trio Properties/Paragon Outlet’s plan was passed by a vote of 4-1. Commissioner John Wills was absent. Commissioner Larry Stewart voted against the plan.

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