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Today's News

  • Pleasureville's issue about clerk’s pay linked to letter about chickens

    PLEASUREVILLE – A brouhaha over the Pleasureville City Clerk’s salary may have started over a letter about chickens.

    For the fourth month in a row, payroll policies and the actions of the city clerk took center stage at the Pleasureville City Commission meeting.

    After a second reading of an ordinance that will amend the salary range for the city clerk’s position to $10,000 to $30,000, the commission approved the reading, 3-1, with Commissioner Pam Bramblett casting the lone opposing vote.

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  • 30th District Tournament basketball schedules

    The schedules for the 30th District basketball tournaments were decided earlier today and the Collins boys' and girls' teams will play the Shelby County boys' and girls' teams in a doubleheader Feb. 22 at Anderson County.

    The Titans girls' squad, the No. 2 seed in the tournament, will take on the third-seeded Rockets at 6 p.m. that evening with the Collins boys' squad, which is also the No. 2 seed in the tourney, facing off against No. 3 seed Shelby County around 7:45 p.m.

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  • Titans’ free shots aren’t easy

    LOUISVILLE – For the Collins boys’ basketball team, it came down to taking and making Wednesday night.

    The Titans had trouble taking care of the basketball and making their free throws in a 61-58 loss at Fairdale.

    “It was two simple things: turnovers and making free throws,” Collins Coach Chris Gaither said. “If we do those things, we win this game.”

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  • Rockets find a new spark

    Shelby County Coach Rick Parsons let the tiger out of the cage in practice on Monday.

    His team followed suit Tuesday night.

    Playing one of their best games of the season, in one of their biggest games of the season, the Rockets beat Spencer County, 73-66, in a key 30th District game at Mike Casey Gymnasium.

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  • Parsons to tiptoe through next game

    Shelby County boys’ basketball coach Rick Parsons said Wednesday night that he was getting a pedicure.

    Was he joking or being serious?

    You can find out tonight when Parsons coaches sans shoes for the Rockets’ Homecoming game against University Heights at Mike Casey Gymnasium.

    Blazers coach Randy McCoy will be shoeless too for a good cause – the Christian Appalachian Project.

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  • Shelby’s schools hope to make a big splash

    The Collins and Shelby County swim teams enter this weekend’s Region 3 meet with high expectations.

    The 2-day competition begins at 12:30 p.m. today at Woodford County High School and continues Saturday, with the finals starting around 2 p.m. The top 18 individuals and relay teams qualify for the second day of competition, then the top two finishers in each event automatically qualify – while others may qualify based on their times – for the Feb. 23-25 State Meet at the University of Louisville’s Ralph Wright Natatorium.

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  • Upcoming sports schedule: Feb. 9, 2012

    Thursday (Feb. 9)

    7 p.m.: High school boys’ basketball, Christian Academy of Lawrenceburg at Cornerstone Christian.
    7:30 p.m.: High school girls’ basketball, Collins at Moore.
    7:30 p.m.: High school girls’ basketball, North Oldham at Shelby County.

    Friday (Feb. 10)

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  • Arts Briefs: Feb. 10, 2012

    Different version of ‘Odd Couple’
    opens next Friday at theater
    Pat Wetherton and Tracy Bond Bird star in The Odd Couple – Female Version, which opens next Friday at Shelby County Community Theatre.
     The comedy, written by Neil Simon, will be performed Feb. 17, 18, 24 and 25 at 7:30 and Feb. 19 and 26 at 2:30 p.m.
    Bird plays Florence Unger, and Wetherton is Olive Madison.
    Tickets are $15 adults, $12 seniors and $10 students. For reservations, call 502-633-0242.

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  • New Shelby artist wants to draw crowd to gallery

    Angie Walters, a new Shelbyville resident, is also a new artist at the Gallery at Shelby Artists on Main, and she is having a special event to share her work with the public.
    By visiting the gallery at 617 Main St., you can enter a drawing to win an 8 by 10 print of her piece called Royal.
    Originally from Elkhart, Ind., Walters said in announcing the drawing that she has had a lifelong interest in art and design that began when, as a child, she traveled with her mother, who made her living as a folk artist.  

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  • News briefs: Feb. 10, 2012

    Triple S to have special meeting

    to review tract split for Speedway

    The Triple S Planning Commission will have a special called meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday  at the Stratton Center to hear a plan to separate property located at 1620 Mount Eden Road into two tracts, with one being in the city and one in the county.

    With the subdivision, a development plan will be heard to build a new nearly 4,000-square-foot Speedway convenient store and gas station, canopy and five gas pumps.

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