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The heinous bombing at the Boston Marathon on Monday that killed three people and injured 183 others reverberated around the world and home to Shelby County.

There were a handful of persons who listed Shelby County addresses on the official marathon entry list, and some of the finished the event with an awed reaction for what happened shortly afterward.

Susanne Busey Osberg, a Shelby County native who has lived in Boston for 41 years, said the bombing brought back the horrible events of Sept. 11, 2001, to her in a very real way.

Shelby County schools receive  $15,000 in 2 PLTW grants

Shelby County Public Schools has received a $15,000 grant to continue the biomedical sciences program at Shelby County High School, through Project Lead The Way. A $50,000 grant was also awarded to fund a new biomedical sciences program for PLTW at Collins High School.

Two development plans and an addition to an existing building will be considered by the Triple S Planning Commission on Tuesday night.

Those new enterprises are part of an agenda that features several old business issues, too.

The largest new plan is for a new 259,000-square-foot office/warehouse distribution center coming to Kingbrook Commerce Park in Simpsonville.

Saturday will be dedicated from daylight until nearly midnight to fundraisers that will benefit two Operation Care facilities, one of which you may know – Mercy Medical – and one whose name may be totally new – Omega House.

These fundraisers, consisting of a 5-kilometer run downtown in the morning and a gala dinner and dance at Claudia Sanders Dinner House in the evening, will be the beginning of a tradition, said Jeff Johnson, director of Operation Care, who last year replaced the retired Judy Roberts.