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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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  • Holiday sales not too shabby in Shelby

    Many retailers in Shelby County say their sales were up slightly from last holiday season, something that made most of them as hopeful for the future as grateful for the present.

    “We had a good Christmas, slightly better than last year, and we hope that indicates a resurgence in the economy,” Walmart Manager David Woodcock said. “We look forward to finishing up the year strong with our holiday clearance. That typically runs through about mid-January, depending on how quickly the merchandise sells out.”

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  • Shelby success stories: Simpsonville native has successful art career in Tennessee, New Mexico

    As a child growing up in Simpsonville, Marilyn Johnson always knew she wanted to be an artist, even before she got her first easel and oil paints when she was 12 years old.

    “We had no television, so I spent a lot of my time making things,” she said. “My daddy taught me to make fishing lures from feathers, my mama taught me to sew, my grandfather let me whittle on wood and my grandmother tried to teach me to cook.”

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  • Federal changes affect charities

    There’s good new and bad news on the horizon for Shelby’s charitable organizations heading into the holidays.

    Although charitable giving around the county is up – certainly good news – the bad news is that federal funding has suffered, and that has been having a negative impact on some of Shelby’s top charitable organizations, namely those that serve the elderly, the homeless and the poor.

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  • LCNI closing printing facility in Shelbyville

    Starting in January The Sentinel-News and several other newspapers will be printed outside of Shelby County.

    Officials of Landmark Community Newspapers LLC announced Tuesday the closing of Landmark Web Press on Taylorsville Road as part of a restructuring of the company’s printing facilities in Kentucky. The other newspapers printed in Shelbyville now will be processed at plants in Shepherdsville, Elizabethtown and Cynthiana.

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  • Southern Table to be ready for Celebration of Lights

    It took a little longer than its owners first thought, but Southern Table Bar and Grill will finally open its doors in Shelbyville Saturday.

    “We’ve put a lot of work in,” said Chris Harris, the owner of the restaurant. “So much more had to be done than we thought, especially in the kitchen.”

    So Harris went to work, essentially gutting the former home of Bistro 535 on Main Street in Shelbyville.

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  • EARLIER: A new bistro in the old Bistro space

    As Louisville continues to emerge as one of the country’s foodie hotspots, Shelbyville is about to get its first localvore hot spot.

    Chris Harris and chef Andrew Platt are opening Southern Table in the former Maggie’s Bistro 535 location on Main Street in Shelbyville, and their plan is to make it uniquely Shelby and uniquely Kentucky.

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  • Paradise remains a family affair

    When Tommy and Mia Burris opened Paradise Wine and Spirits in Governor’s Square shopping center in 2007, there was some talk of passing the new family business on to sons James and Chris White, but that idea wasn’t fully fermented.

    Now that the Burrises have moved from Paradise and settled into paradise, retiring to the Caribbean, that thought turned to reality this month.

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  • Going upstairs in downtown Shelbyville

    Downtown Shelbyville often is in a state of flux, but recently there are signs that it’s on the verge of significant change.

    “I was noting today [Wednesday] as I was walking up Main Street that we recently lost three businesses, but we had four come in, and now there’s three more,” said Eilene Collins, the executive director of the Shelby Development Corporation. “It’s a trend we’ve seen lately, businesses moving around, but I think everyone is settling in.”

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