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Today's News

  • Right about trains

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  • Warning, warning

    Elementary children across the county are being warned how to handle strangers. The Stranger Danger assembly programs, for example, chanted with students about “pants up, shoes tied so you can run from strangers.”

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  • Shelby Prevention contest winners

    Maria Cozzens, a junior at Collins High School, was the winner of a Shelby Prevention brochure contest. She won a camera and a goody bag. Lindsey Ketcham, a sophomore at Collins, won second place and a goody bag. These brochures will be copied and available for the school’s staff to distribute to students. Judging was done by Elizabeth Pulliam, Shelby Prevention’s director.

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  • Collins homecoming court

    Collins High School will crown a basketball homecoming queen on Friday in between the girls and boys basketball games against Oldham County. The games begin at 6 p.m. The senior queen candidates are (left, from front): Tiffany Broughton, Alex Colebank and Nettie Melanson; (right, from front) Jessica Rudolph, Katie Usher and Megan Wiedemann. The homecoming court members are (back row, from left): juniors Kadi Dobbs and Diana Nava; sophomores Nidia Mendez and Ellen Sparrow; and freshmen Lindy Bush and Eli Megibben.

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  • On campus: January 20, 2012

    Freeman graduates from EKU
    Jack Charles Freeman graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice. He plans to attend graduate school at EKU. He is currently lives and works in Lexington. He was a graduate of Shelby County High School and is the son of Julie and Ken Freeman of Shelbyville.

     

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  • Looking Back: January 20, 2012

    Information was gathered from previous years of The Shelby Sentinel, The Shelby News and The Sentinel-News. You can reach the writer at sharonw@sentinelnews.com.

     

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  • Raiders too much for Rockets

    Visiting Iroquois used a huge second half to hand the Shelby County boys’ basketball team its 11th loss in a row Tuesday night.

    The Raiders outscored the Rockets 49-21 after intermission on their way to a 78-47 victory in Mike Casey Gymnasium.

    Senior forward Keion Goff scored a game-high 23 points to lead four in double figures for Iroquois (9-7), which led 29-26 at halftime. 

    Goff tallied 12 points in the first quarter, when the athletic Raiders repeatedly went to the offensive glass on their way to outscoring Shelby 19-7.

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  • Marshall’s 27 leads Titans over Bears

    The Collins boys’ basketball team picked up a big district victory Tuesday night.

    The Titans topped host Spencer County 64-52 in Taylorsville to secure the No. 2 seed in next month’s 30th District Tournament at Anderson County.

    Collins beat the Bears 76-63 Dec. 29 in the Nelson County Classic. That game didn’t count toward the 30th District standings. Tuesday night’s game did.

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  • A victory too good to pass up

    Showing off its new-found penchant for passing, the Shelby County girls’ basketball team proved victories aren’t just a passing fancy for the Rockets anymore.

    Playing some of its best, and most unselfish, basketball of the season Shelby County annihilated Iroquois, 63-30, Tuesday night at Mike Casey Gymnasium to triple its victory total from last season. 

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  • Hornback’s Senate territory grows north

    Shelby County’s state senator is going to be covering a few more miles this term.

    The redistricting plan passed Wednesday by the Senate extends the District 20 served by Sen. Paul Hornback (R-Shelbyville) from three counties to the south of Shelby to a long swathe of northern and western counties.

    In fact, the map looks like most of the territory covered by the 8th Region in high school basketball.

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