Today's News

Students and teachers alike let out a yell of celebration on Wednesday afternoon as the school year came to an official end.

Teachers were still required to work on Thursday to close out the year, but the students took their final bus rides home.

The district was abuzz with celebration all week, with awards nights nearly every day or night and promotion ceremonies for kindergarten, sixth grade and eighth grade and field days in elementary schools dotting calendars.

A few events were held for Wednesday afternoon to cap the year.

Construction has started for the new Southside Elementary School, which will be built behind the current school, on Ginkgo Drive in Shelbyville.

The new facility is scheduled to be completed by next summer, making way for the demolition of most of the old school building. The school’s current gym and a few classrooms will remain.

The new building will be open for the 2014-15 school year. Here’s a look at the beginning stages of the construction.

Shelby County High School students earned $41,400 through 48 local scholarships for education and a little more than $1 million in total scholarships, as reported to the school’s guidance counselors.

About 100 of the graduating seniors filled the school’s auditorium along with their friends and family on Thursday night to celebrate the achievements at the annual Senior Awards Night.

SCHS Principal Eddie Oakley noted how he and this group started at Shelby County together four years ago.

The plan to rehabilitate the old Blue Gables motel in downtown Shelbyville looks to be closer to a done deal.

The Shelbyville City Council on Thursday approved two resolutions in which the city of Shelbyville would agree to be the intermediary – and, thus, perhaps liable for some expense – to allow a group of business people to acquire and rehabilitate the old motor court at the corner of 8th and Main streets.