Business

What do you do if you’re an elementary teacher and a gymnast and want to try to merge all that training? You open a gym for children, of course.

Discovery Gym opened on Main Street in Shelbyville last August, and it has become a busy place for kids who otherwise might be sitting indoors, bored, waiting for warm weather.

In those six months parents have been enrolling their kids in activities such as preschool classes and gymnastics, owner Laura Shelton said.

The Sentinel-News took home 18 awards, including five first-place honors, among multiweekly newspapers in the Kentucky Press Association’s annual Excellence in Kentucky Newspapers Contest.

The awards for 2012 were handed out Friday night at KPA’s banquet in Louisville.

Staff writers Lisa King and Todd Martin, sports writer Josh Cook and two staff entries were judged the best in their categories by judges from outside the state.

The first part of Phase 1 of the annual statewide equine survey is out, and the results are of particular importance to the horse industry, officials say, as the study found that the total of all equine-related sales and income for equine operations in 2011 was about $1.1 billion.

That total came from sales of all equines, estimated to be $521.1 million, and $491 million in income from services provided, including both breeding and non-breeding services such as training, lessons, boarding, farrier, transportation, purses, incentives, etc.

A Shelby County business will be the first in the state to offer one of the fastest Internet service connections available.

Shelby Broadband, based in Simpsonville, is in the beginning stages of installing in the infrastructure to provide fiber-optic line service to home customers, pushing the capabilities of their Internet service well beyond any others available across the commonwealth.

Once the service is up and running, which should be later this year, the company formerly known as Shelby Wireless will offer the fastest wired service.