Today's News

Members of the Shelby Sharks swim team would like to align themselves with the prestigious Lakeside Swim Club from Louisville – but that might not be OK with the Shelby County Parks & Recreation Board.

The parks board at its meeting Tuesday will consider whether it wants to work with the Sharks on a new agreement to use the Family Activities Center at Clear Creek Park or even take over operating the team.

A fight between two female students at the Whitney Young Job Corps Center in Simpsonville on Tuesday ended with one in jail and the other at University Hospital in Louisville.

Celeste Hughes, 18, a resident of Chattanooga, Tenn., has been charged with first-degree assault after allegedly stabbing Kenya Slade, 19, four times with a pair of scissors.

State officials this week gave their sort-of-final approval to Simpsonville’s downtown sidewalk project, and the city is about to advertise for bids, Mayor Steve Eden told the Simpsonville City Commission at its meeting on Wednesday morning.

The project, which first began with the federal stimulus grant application in 2008, has been stuck in slow motion by federal and state regulations about the release of the $320,000 the city received to build new sidewalks along the south side of U.S. 60 between Fairview Drive and Old Veechdale Road.

After helping lead the charge for policy change on industrial hemp in Kentucky, state Sen. Paul Hornback (R-Shelbyville) took his campaign to Washington D.C., last week, and returned expressing optimism about what he heard there.

 “It went really well,” he said of the trip. “Of course we met with all of our congressional representatives and also with representatives from the Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture and [the] Obama administration. The lady we met with at the Department of Energy was actually even wearing a hemp dress.”