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Is there a counterfeit money ring in Shelbyville?

Police say no but add that bills are circulating in the area, which is not an uncommon problem in most communities the size of Shelby County.

Shelbyville Police Det. Jessie Paulley said that he has seen counterfeit money in Shelby during the past year.

“We have had three counterfeit bills in the last six to eight months,” he said.

That’s not counting six counterfeit $100 bills found recently in the coat of a man arrested for robbery and assault, Paulley said.

A tense police standoff in Finchville early Saturday morning ended peacefully, thanks to the heroic efforts of a Shelby County 911 dispatcher.

Supervisor Tony Kent, who was on duty that night with dispatcher Bobbi Richardson, said the last thing he expected was to be on the phone, talking an unstable person surrounded by armed police officers into laying down his shotgun and giving himself up.

“I expected any minute to hear shots over the phone,” Kent said.

The movement to raise funds for a Squire Boone Statue to be placed at the East End entrance to Shelbyville is gaining steam again.

The group, led by Joe Ruble, has already commissioned Louisville-sculptor Raymond Graf to create the statue of Shelby County’s most noted first resident, and now Ruble and his group have something to show.

“We just got these small statues in, and they’re real bronze,” he said. “This is what we’ll give individuals or businesses that donate seventy-five hundred or more.”

Still-smoking, charred remnants of a barn are the horrible aftermath of a blaze in which dozens of prize dairy goats died Wednesday morning, their terrified bleating echoing through the darkness when the structure went up in flames.

“It was so pitiful. You should have seen them. It was a nightmare, just a nightmare,” said Joann Shelburne in a trembling voice as she looked out at the ruins where half of her prize-winning Alpine dairy goats perished in the predawn hours.

She said 25 goats died, and five more had to be put down.