Today's News

LOUISVILLE – The Shelby County boys’ and girls’ track & field teams – plus two runners from Collins – faced some of the stiffest competition they’ll see all season this past weekend.

The Rockets and the Karas sisters (Collins senior Caterina and her seventh-grade sister Gabby) competed in the Eastern Relays at the University of Louisville – site of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association’s state championships later this month.

DUI

Ashley J. Kemp, 23, of 116 Dobner Way in Eminence was arrested April 28 on Boone Station Road and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of drugs or alcohol, first offense, and failure to illuminate head lamps.

One thing that people like about the Kentucky Derby, aside from horses, of course, is the glamour surrounding the event.

Everyone is excited about maybe getting a chance to glimpse of a celebrity or two, or to dress up in fancy hats or just enjoy a tasty mint julep.

Judy Heidal is a spunky, “glass is half full” kind of person who in 1980, through an odd series of circumstances, came to call Shelbyville home – which has brought her a lifetime of free lunches.

While making their way to Frankfort for Ron to check out a potential job, Heidal and her husband, Ron, stopped at Shelbyville to get gasoline.  She said she remembers having an instant, positive impression of what was then a “one stoplight town.”