Business

Bring Laura Parker your dogs and cats; your horses, dairy cows and beef cattle. And your sheep, goats and pigs, too. Just leave your snakes at home.

“I think the only animals I don't like are reptiles, snakes,” Parker said.

Parker became the fourth veterinarian at Shelby Veterinary Clinic when she started work on Monday. She joins owner Dr. Melissa Lipps, Dr. Stephen Burchett and Dr. Rocky Oliver.

The Walmart Supercenter in Shelbyville is undergoing a significant expansion of its floor space in an effort to create a better shopping experience for its customers.

This remodeling will give each of the store's departments an update, featuring new, wider aisles and more customer-friendly lower shelves. The exterior will get an update, too.

Walmart officials said they based their plans on feedback from customers.

Marvin Crouch is one of kind. Everybody says so, especially people who know him well.

After 50 years of employment with the same company, he retired last Friday, amid tears, laughter, and a party in his honor.

Diane Stephens, assistant manager at Bumper to Bumper, said she will really miss him.

"That says it all," she said, pointing to a banner that stretched across the front of the shop bearing the words, "50 years of friendship, loyalty and the Best Service in Town."

Despite a brutal first quarter for many industries, Pegasus Packaging experienced a 27 percent rise in business, said co-owner Steve Meador.

Growth for the local outsourcing company came, Meador said, as industries looked for ways to save even small amounts of money in a tough economy.

“When things were good, they weren't looking so much at savings, but now they are trying to save everywhere they can,” Meador said. “So now they’re looking at what we can do for them.”