Today's News

The Shelbyville Police Department teamed up recently with Sam Meyers Cleaners in Shelbyville to help needy families have warm coats to wear this winter.

Shelbyville Police Chief Robert Schutte said the event was a project undertaken by the department’s advisory board, which collects more than 50 coats plus numerous sweaters and blankets for the needy.

Thank you, Jane, for your love and support, and for being such a great First Lady.  Thank you to our sons, Jeff and Andy, and their families, for making us so proud.

And thank you to Jerry, Madeline and Sidney Abramson, for agreeing to join us in leading this state over the next four years.

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We began this day with solemn prayer, and we will bring it to an end, late this evening, with ceremonial music and dancing.  Inaugurations, after all, are a collage of tradition and hope.

The Shelbyville City Council, rebuffed earlier this fall in its effort to get a newly annexed piece of property rezoned, on Thursday will consider an ordinance to annex a section of the railroad that separates that property from an industrial park.

If the ordinance passes two readings, the segment of RJ Corman Railroad’s tracks that is the buffer between a 73-acre parcel owned by Shelby County Magistrate Allen Ruble and his brother and the Midland Industrial Park would become part of the city.

This is this is the sixth in a series of literacy enhancement articles that appear biweekly in The Sentinel-News.

"Hello," Mom said sweetly when she answered the telephone.

"I'm sorry I didn't ask permission before I bought the drums. Please don't make me return them."

"Excuse me?" Mom asked, puzzled.

"Mrs. Grant said I needed to call home. Aren't you going to say I can't keep the drums?"