Today's News

James Neihof, Shelby County School superintendent, was the keynote speaker Tuesday at a luncheon for the Home Builders Association held at Claudia Sanders Dinner House.

Neihof spoke about challenges in education, which includes building new schools to keep up with the county's growing student population.

Neihof had brought along a sketch of the new secondary center for Shelby County Schools. The facility, as yet unnamed, to be located on Discovery Boulevard near Simpsonville on U.S. 60., is expected to open in 2010.

Visitors to the Shelby County Public Library on a recent Thursday evening would have been very surprised upon nearing its Hudson Room.   

The silence that they usually would expect to find had been replaced that night by a cacophony, complete with yelling and loud exclamations.    

And that was OK.

A martial arts demonstration claimed the attention of several dozen people who had come hoping to learn how to defend themselves from physical attack. 

District court

The following cases were heard by Judge

Donna Dutton:

Joseph D. Brooks, disorderly conduct -- plead guilty -- 90-day sentence, serve 15 days, balance conditionally discharged for two years.

William Shawn Fleming, second-offense DUI -- guilty -- 60-day sentence, serve seven days, balance conditionally discharged for two years, operator's license suspended for 12 months, and $878 fine and costs.

In early January local engineer Kerry Magan and Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Coordinator Horace Brown came before the Shelbyville City Council to discuss why the state had issued the city a notice of violation in regards to its storm water quality management plan.

Magan told the council that of the six minimum control measures required of the city, four of them were not meeting the state’s requirements.

With little time to waste, the city is working to meet those requirements: