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  • New orthopedic physican opens in Shelby County

    He wouldn’t want this to confuse you, but the new orthopedic surgeon who just dusted off his shingle in Shelby County actually got his start in Simpsonville – at the FB Purnell Sausage Company.

    The way Andrew Duffee tells the story, he was a medical student in Louisville and needed some ligaments to use to practice surgical procedures.

    “When I was writing my personal statement for orthopedics, I told them I started in a slaughterhouse,” he said. “I came out to Al Purnell’s and got my start.”

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  • Reichert is new horticulture extension agent

    A familiar name and face has a new role in the Shelby County agricultural scene.

    Walt Reichert, former editor of The Sentinel-Newsand faculty member of Jefferson Community & Technical College’s Shelby County campus, is the new horticulture technician at the University of Kentucky’s Shelby County Extension Office. He replaces Corinne Kephart, who recently moved from that job to be the agriculture agent.

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  • Shelby's new ag agent not new to field

    Corinne Kephart may be new to the field of county agriculture agent, but she is hardly new in the field.

    You could say, in fact, that Kephart, who was named in April to replace Brett Reese as the oracle for farming in Shelby County, has been out thereall her life, having most recently served as the horticulture agent at the Shelby County Extension office and before that as 4-H agent.

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  • Sentinel-News wins 9 awards in LCNI contest

    The Sentinel-News has won nine awards – including five first-place awards, more than any newspaper in its class – in the annual judging among Landmark Community Newspapers.

    Staff Writer Todd Martin and Editor Steve Doyle each won two first-place citations, and Staff Writer Lisa King took another in the judging among semiweekly and triweekly newspapers for content published in 2011. LCNI owns 63 newspapers nationally.

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  • Shelby success stories: Odie Thompson detects a new career

    Martinsville is a long way from Albuquerque, N.M., but Jonathan “Odie” Thompson has made a smooth transition from the bluegrass to no grass.

    After his college football career led him from Western Kentucky University to Merced College and then to the University of New Mexico and later to Canada, Thompson said he found a home in the southwest but sure misses Kentucky.

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  • Shelby succcess stories: Laura Park Wills-Coppelman is shooting for a new career

    Laura Park Wills-Coppelman had a good job, one that fit perfectly into her career aspirations.

    Having majored in journalism and Spanish at the University of Kentucky, she was putting her knowledge to the test as a sales manager for a medical device company, living in Miami and covering sales in Florida, Puerto Rico and Costa Rica.

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  • Shelby success stories: Gene Roberts is a man of business, man of God

    When Gene Roberts was starting out in the insurance business in the early 1980s, doing workers compensation claims, raising three children with his wife, Robin, and teaching Sunday school at First Baptist Church in Shelbyville, he never dreamed, he said, that one day he would be president of his own insurance company and an ordained minister.

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  • Shelby success stories: Orie Mullen has risen to be leader of new team

    In the late 1960s, Orie T. Mullen Jr. was just another guy from Simpsonville on some pretty good little league baseball teams in Shelby County.

    Today he heads a company overseeing health-insurance coverage for 3.2 million active and retired members of the United States armed forces.

    Mullen is president of Humana Military, a $3.2 billion company based in Louisville that manages the U.S. Department of Defense’s health insurance program, covering a 10-state region in the South.

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  • HOLLAND: Are your beneficiary designations up to date?

    When was the last time you reviewed your beneficiary designations for life insurance policies and retirement accounts? Very likely, the answer is “never.” But you should review them periodically. Various life events can signal a need to review and possibly change your beneficiary designations. Consider whether any of the following events have occurred since you named your beneficiaries:

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  • HOLLAND: Financial planning for a divorce

    When you’re preparing for a divorce, it’s crucial to review your budget and expenses. After separating, most ex-spouses will try to maintain their former lifestyles, only now the same income will need to cover two separate households. How do you manage cash flow appropriately to meet your and your ex-spouse’s individual circumstances?

    The goal is to arrive at a fair solution. But remember, ‘fair’ is a relative term and depends on the circumstances. In some cases, it may mean assets are divided 50-50 and in others it could be 70-30.

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