Today's News

The beauty of a winter storm turned into a beast for Shelby Countians.

They awoke this morning to their fourth day of dealing with a blanket of ice and snow now frozen very solid by single-digit temperatures that were predicted to register overnight.

The state's most historic winter storm blew through the county from Monday night until midday Wednesday and coated homes, cars and streets with snow and ice that will linger for several days.

Brett Reese is getting back to his roots – not his plant roots but his farm roots.

Reese grew up on a farm in Scott County and his father was the Extension agent for agriculture there. Now Reese, who hired on as Shelby County's horticulture agent in 2005, is the ag agent here.

Shelby County runners had a strong individual showing in the State Cross Country Meet Saturday at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington.

Stacey Eden led finished second overall in the boys’ race to lead the Rockets’ to a seventh-place team finish, and Shelby’s Caterina Karas finished sixth in the girls’ race.

Both Eden and Karas agreed that the cold, rainy weather didn’t help anyone, but it wasn’t much of a factor in the race.

You would expect that a piece of farm machinery that had been sitting in a barn unused for more than 30 years would be long ossified into a nearly worthless piece of junk metal.

But a couple of local farmers this summer brought back to life an old combine that was headed for the scrap heap.