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  • NEW BUSINESS: FAC Women’s Gym

    ADDRESS: 165 Alpine Drive, Shelbyville

    WHO WE ARE: This gym, formerly the Curves franchise in Shelbyville, is owned and operated by Shelbyville/Shelby County Parks and Recreation and managed by Jan Stone, a previous employee of Curves. It is a satellite facility for the Family Activities Center at Clear Creek Park.

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  • Business briefcase: March 22, 2013

    Red Cross launches tornado app that includes alert system

    The American Red Cross has launched its official Tornado App, putting lifesaving information right in the hands of people who live in, visit or have loved ones in tornado-prone areas, including Shelby County.

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  • Real estate deeds:March 22, 2013

    Deeds are compile from data posted on the Shelby County Clerk’s Web site. Property descriptions are based on the best available information provided in the database and may in fact refer to property and thoroughfares no longer formally identified. Financial terms include any value of the property stated on the deed, even if that amount did not change hands.

     

    Feb. 23-March 1

    Robert G. and Andrea D. Liberty to John M. and Kirby Chambers Hoetker, 5.0347 acres, Tract 19A, Overbrook Bend, $55.000

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  • Building permits: March 22, 2013

    Caleb Evans, 4939 Hickory Ridge Road, Waddy, add to home, 420 square feet, $2,600

    Jargoe Homes, P.O. Box 23019, Owensboro, house, 3,804 square feet, $133,324

    Floyd Raisor, 104 Eminence Pike, addition to home, 416 square feet, $700

    Patricia Gaines, 711 Bass Lane, barn, 259 square feet, $6,500

    Shelburne Pet Center, 731 Mount Eden Road, sign, 8 square feet, $100

    Doug Steck, 3591 Backcreek Road, Waddy, storage building, 288 square feet, $3,000

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  • Shelby native takes tobacco down a new road

    At first glance, Walt Carpenter, who will retire later this year after 25 years with R.J. Reynolds, may not seem to fit the profile for a tobacco company executive.

    Although he grew up in Shelby County, he wasn’t one of the many of his day who lived on a tobacco farm or belonged to the Future Farmers of America.

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  • Showcase continues to grow

    The Shelby County Chamber of Commerce’s long-running Community Showcase figures to have its biggest year yet on Saturday, when vendors and marketers spread their wares and messages in the Mike Casey Gymnasium at Shelby County High School.

    This 11th annual event, which allows companies – 55 have signed up this year – to set up tables and booths to market themselves to community members who browse, pick up goodies and get a card checked off so they can enter to win prizes, begins at 9 a.m.

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  • Business briefcase: March 15, 2013

    Beware basketball businesses that might steal your money

    Don’t doubt the big business of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. In fact, it has drawn the attention of the Better Business Bureau in Louisville.

    BBB issued an alert to advise fans to check out ticket offers before investing their money in the tournament, warning that some merchandise is stolen and counterfeit and that some tickets advertised in public forums such as Craigslist are in fact bogus.

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  • Real estate deeds:March 15, 2013

    Feb. 9-15

    Gary M. and Gwyna M. Haydon to Gary M. and Gwyna M. Haydon, Lot 85, Ken Acres, $1 and considerations

    Gayle P. and Donna A. Crume to Austin T. and Evelyn R. White, 5.09 acres, Tract 5, Sparrow Farm Pea Ridge East, $112,525

    Dominion Homes of Kentucky LTD to Heith L. Ratliff, Lot 75, Cloverbrook Farms, $115,000

    Jacqueline Davis Lanham and Daniel J. Lanham to Jacqueline Davis Lanham and Daniel J. Lanham, 58.35 acres, Tract 6, Nethery Farm, $110,000

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  • She wants to be a voice in agriculture

    A Shelbyville woman is one of 16 people around the state who is very interested in making a difference in her community when it comes to agriculture.

    Amanda Gajdzik, who with her husband, Matt, owns Mulberry Orchard near Bagdad, recently returned from Washington D.C., as part of a Kentucky Farm Bureau leadership class.

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  • NEW BUSINESS: Back2Basics Cleaning and Floor Care, LLC

    Who we are:Owners Brenda A. Yocum and Benny H. Yocum Jr. are native Shelby Countians who started in the cleaning field 10 years ago. They gained their experience by working in the Shelby County Public Schools system and said they decided to take that experience and open their first business. They say their hope is to provide a long-lasting service to Shelby County and surrounding counties.

     

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