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The county’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year of 2013 is very similar to last year’s, in fact, it is only $82,138 more than the 2012 budget.

In his budget presentation at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Shelby County Fiscal Court, Judge-Executive Rob Rothenburger told magistrates and the court that his proposal contains no tax increases and mirror’s last year’s budget very closely, at $17,432,138, compared to last year’s $17.35 million.

Simpsonville residents are getting a bit of a financial break in the coming year.

City commissioners voted at their meeting Tuesday night to forego an increase in sewer rates – which by ordinance they could have raised 2.5 percent.

The opt-out was put in the place when the ordinance was passed, and Mayor Steve Eden suggested that this is a year when the city could go without increasing the cost to property owners.

Officials at the Shelbyville Post Office have said they have had quite a few people calling and asking about an E-mail residents are receiving that tells them they have a package to pick up.

This new scam, along with many others, is being investigated, by the postal service, Adel Valdes, U.S. postal inspector, Pittsburgh Division, said.

 “We are the federal law enforcement arm of the postal service, and we are working on this to see if we can pinpoint where it’s coming from,” he said.

After honoring the 11 nominees for Shelby County's 2012 WHAS ExCel Teacher of the Year Thursday, the school district showed a short video with students from the winner's class stating why that teacher is at the top.

When the film began and Simpsonville fifth-grade teacher Sloane Barnett noticed it included students from her classroom, you could see the surprise on her face. And as it all started to wash over her, a little fist-pump and yes slipped out before she came forward to receive the bouquet of flowers and hear the applause from the crowd at Claudia Sanders.