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A jury trial for Jessie Allen Stump of 110 Ada Ave. in Shelbyville, charged with rape and incest against children, culminated with a 20-year sentence in Shelby Circuit Court Tuesday.

Stump, 64, was indicted in July 2012 on two counts each of first-degree rape and incest of two female children to whom he is related. He was serving as their sitter.

It had been slow going for getting the case to trial, as it had been postponed several times over the past five years for various reasons, but once proceedings got underway Monday, things moved swiftly.

Board members of a local cemetery have come up with an innovative way of raising money for an expensive renovation project.

Now if you wish to contribute to a project to pave the parking lot and walkways of Calvary Cemetery on 7th Street you can do so at the cemetery’s GoFundMe page set up by board member Leonard Sullivan to take donations.

Though students didn’t start piling into the buildings until this morning, Shelby County High School’s gym was packed wall-to-wall yesterday morning with teachers, administrators and district employees to kick off the first day of the school year.

A downtown project put in motion last fall is another step closer to fruition after a presentation by tourism officials to the Shelbyville City Council Thursday night.

Katie Fussenegger, executive director of the ShelbyKY Tourism Commission, along with architect Jeremy Adams with Studio Kremer Architects of Louisville, presented renderings of the park that will be located on the 600th block of Main Street.

The park will be located at the site of a devastating fire that destroyed three historic downtown buildings that houses businesses in March 2013.