Today's News

The road to the school district's new educational campus still doesn't have a name.

But that's not because the committee assigned to task didn't try.

Last Thursday night the Shelby County School Board rejected a community-based committee's recommendation to name the road "Hubble Boulevard," in honor of Edwin Powell Hubble.

Hubble was a Rhode's scholar who lived in Shelby County for a summer and went on to make monumental discoveries in the astronomy and physics. NASA later named a telescope after him.

You leave your old Kentucky home as a teenager and move hundreds of miles away. You get a college education in a mid-sized town and move to a larger one. You know people and work with them, and you have family members nearby. You feel comforted if not content.

Work takes you hundreds more miles away, to a bigger, sprawling city that is far more plastic and soulless than you can imagine.

After the $700 billion financial rescue plan was rejected by the House of Representatives on Monday, the Dow fell nearly 778 points, its worst one-day loss in history.

Depending on age, occupation and location, people are affected by the struggling economy in different ways.

However, there was a common sensitivity among many people in downtown Shelbyville on Tuesday morning: concern.

Like many who worry about bills both today and in the future, Tammy Rannells couldn't narrow down her list of concerns.

An East Middle School teacher has been accused of hitting a male student in the head with a telephone receiver during class.

According to a press release from the Shelby County Public School system, the teacher, whose name has not been released, allegedly hit the student last Friday after asking him to call his parent(s).

Superintendent James Neihof said the school system has conducted its own investigation and reported the allegation to the Cabinet for Families and Children, which still is investigating.