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  • Farms don’t freeze in winter

    The chill factor may be near zero this morning, the ground frozen hard and animals gathered up in an effort to feed off each other’s heat, but that doesn’t mean work stands still on Shelby County’s farms.

    The type of work being done by farmers on frigid winter days may depend on the type of farm being operated, but there is still more than enough to keep everyone busy.

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  • Wyler group takes over Bob Hook GM dealership

    Shelby Countians with General Motors vehicles in the driveway now have a new name to learn.

    The Jeff Wyler Automotive Family has purchased and taken over the Bob Hook Chevrolet Buick GMC of Shelbyville location at 700 Taylorsville Road.

    Jeff Wyler Automotive has a Honda dealership in Frankfort and a Toyota/Scion dealership in Southern Indiana among its numerous dealerships.

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  • Sentinel-News wins 18 awards in state contest

    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.

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  • Housing market shows signs of improvement

    A negative swing in foreclosures in 2012 has been a positive trend in Shelby County home sales.

    Records with filed with the Shelby County Clerks Office show a 19 percent increase in foreclosures, up to 178 from 144 from 2011.

    But that doesn’t necessarily mean there were more houses that entered foreclosure, Master Commissioner Todd Davis said. In fact, they the majority of the foreclosures were not even new cases.

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  • Statewide equine survey reveals horses are billion dollar industry

    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.

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  • ‘Fiscal cliff’ deal saves key program for JHS

    Jewish Hospital Shelbyville is one of the beneficiaries of an obscure aspect of the “fiscal cliff” deal reached earlier this month by Congress.

    A program reinstated in the agreement means that 10 Kentucky hospitals, including JHS, will continue to receive subsidies to Medicare payments.

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  • Taxing their skills

    Did you ever think that tax preparation could be fun?

    Five people who have been volunteering their time for years doing free tax preparation at a local company say they actually look forward to tax season.

    “I have five very dedicated volunteers; we’re like one big family,” said Yolanda Bradford, owner of HJW Career and Financial Literacy Institute, Inc. in downtown Shelbyville and operated of a federally subsidized service for the elderly and low-income families.

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  • Shelby Broadband building fiber network

    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.

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  • 2013 business outlook: Sunny and growing

    Is the recession really over in Shelby County?

    Business leaders wouldn’t go as far as to say that, but the overall feeling they expressed about the business climate for 2013 in county ranges from “cautiously optimistic” to very enthusiastic.

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  • Shelbyville's former Curves’ facility now part of parks

    Shelby County Parks has a new women’s gym beginning as of New Year’s Day.

    That’s because the parks department has acquired the Curves facility, located at 165 Alpine Drive in Shelbyville.

    That came about because Curves owner Jamie Latona, who is retiring, decided to donate all of her exercise equipment to the parks department.

    The only problem was, there wasn’t any place to put the equipment, said Jeremiah Heath, director of the Family Activity Center.

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