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Although most of the major topics – pension reform, redistricting, tax reform, industrialized hemp – were not among the bills passed on to Gov. Steve Beshear by the House and Senate, Kentucky’s legislators did move 107 bills looking to be signed into law, and more could be added in the session’s final two days, March 25-26.

State Sen. Paul Hornback (R-Shelbyville) said he is optimistic that his two bills – on legalizing industrial hemp and on telecommunications restructuring – could be heard and voted on in the House.

Mark Bruner, charged with the brutal beating of a woman left by the side of the road, is scheduled for a status hearing on Monday in Shelby County Circuit Court.

Bruner was scheduled to have stood a jury trial this past Monday, but that was postponed because some needed paperwork was not in place, said Shelby County Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Melanie Carroll, who is handling the case.

“I think everything we were waiting on is now available,” she said.

Natalie Mudd, a Shelbyville insurance adjuster who was seriously injured in a horrific six-car pile up in Hardin County March 4 that injured two others, is out of the hospital, and facing several months of rehabilitation, which will be especially grueling in the coming weeks, her husband said.

“She’s been moved to the Masonic Home for rehab and will probably be there for about three weeks for some hard core rehab,” said Marcy Mudd.

As firefighters focused their attention between 610 and 620 Main Street on Wednesday, hundreds of onlookers made their way to the area to take in the devastation and watch firemen and women work.

Everyone, from Shelbyville Mayor Tom Hardesty to Shelby County Judge-Executive Rob Rothenburger to citizens on the street, has marveled at a job well done, and perhaps rightfully so.

But behind those firemen were several other departments and citizens quietly working to help and provide the resources for them to do their work.