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The day before Collins High School was set to celebrate its KHSAA Class AAAA football state title, another group of students approached the school board to discuss a decision not to allow them to compete in a national competition.

Shelby County magistrates took the first step Tuesday in a campaign to promote the establishment of bourbon distilleries in Shelby County by unanimously passing a resolution seek an amendment to agricultural zoning regulations.

The resolution formally asks Triple S Planning Commission to hold a public hearing on the matter and consider the text amendment.

“This will let the public talk about whether they would like to see this in Shelby County,” Shelby County Judge-Executive Rob Rothenburger said at Tuesday’s meeting of fiscal court.

The Shelby County Fiscal Court approved Tuesday the 2014 budgets for the sheriff and county clerk's offices, with little change from last year's budgets.

Both departments showed a slight decrease in their planned expenses.

County Clerk Sue Carole Perry's office will spend $10,017,805, which is about 4.5 percent – or $900,000 – lower than 2013. The revenue from the county clerk’s office comes from license-plate renewals, fees for deed transfers and delinquent taxes.

Multiply a thousand smiles by a dozen times, and you would have some idea of the joy a simple task like passing out Christmas gifts to children in need can bring.

With temperatures dipping with the setting sun, two dozen volunteers and organizers of Community Christmas, formerly known as Christmas at Claudia’s, worked steadily for 2 hours Tuesday night, bustling back and forth to bring toys and gifts out to children and their families who drove up to Shelby Industries on Pearce Industrial Road, where the event has been conducted these past two years.