Today's News

The city of Shelbyville is under the microscope for the rainwater that bounces off the pavement in your driveway, skitters across your fertilized lawn and disappears untreated into the storm drain at the low point of your cul de sac.

And City Public Works Director Jennifer Herrell is tasked with making darn sure you know that every drop of runoff water is being monitored by the federal and state governments and the city is liable for how clean it might be.

Longtime educator Mike Zoeller, a member of the Shelbyville City Council, is passionate about an ordinance, passed on first reading by the council during its meeting Thursday night, that would fine adults who allow minors to consume alcohol and drugs on their property.

The ordinance, which is a copy of a measure adopted in January by Shelby County Fiscal Court, is stricter than the requirements of Kentucky Revised Statutes because it does not require proof that the adults provided the intoxicants, only that they were present when the substances were consumed.

About 100 board members and supporters of the Shelby Sharks – about a third of them children – stormed out of a meeting Tuesday night, muttering in anger and some even shouting at members of the Shelby County Parks Board, protesting the board’s decision on a new contract with the swim team that could mean its end in Shelby County.

The pond, fish and many trees are gone, and the dirt is moving furiously at the site of the Outlet Shoppes of Louisville on Buck Creek Road, and the Simpsonville City Commission on Wednesday was full of activity as well.

Commissioners passed along for second reading three ordinances and approved other steps that would affect Horizon Group Property’s 350,000-square-foot outlet mall project, which is slated to be completed in late summer 2014.