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Today's News

  • Not much experience on new team

    The Collins boys’ tennis team enters its first season with a decent-sized team, but with only a duo’s worth of experience.

    The Titans have a pair of players who have played at the high school level – juniors Hunter Purnell and Sam Rathke.

    Coach Ken Cates looks for those two to lead the way, along with a senior who has swiftly picked up the sport.

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  • New team has regional hopes

    The Collins girls’ tennis team has small numbers but sizable expectations this season.

    “I expect us to be competitive if we can keep everybody healthy,” Titans Coach Judy Cates, the mother of boys’ coach Ken Cates. "I feel like we can put three pretty good courts out there and I feel like the other will improve along the way."

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  • Church, community help Puckett with new van

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  • Engagement: Brown-Smith

    Timothy and Julie Brown of Simpsonville announce the engagement of their daughter, Amber Brown of Shelbyville, to Jerome Smith of Shelbyville. He is the son of Bill and Janie Akins of Mason, N.C.

    Brown is a 2003 graduate of Shelby County High School and is a hairstylist at Great Clips. Smith is a 1987 graduate of Halifax County High School in Virginia and is a stock person for the distribution center at Kroger.

    The wedding will take place at 5 p.m. April 30 at Simpsonville Baptist Church.

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  • Engagement: Radcliff-Dowell

    Chuck and Tammie Radcliff of Shelbyville announce the engagement of their daughter, Paige Alexandra Radcliff of Shelbyville, to Matthew Wescott Dowell of Meade County. He is the son of Alan and Christy Dowell of Elizabethtown and Robinn and Barry Barmore of Louisville.

    The wedding will take place at 2:30 p.m. May 21, 2011 at Holly Hill Church of Christ in Frankfort.

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  • Engagement: Schlientz-Stapleton

    Elizabeth Schlientz of Louisville and Dr. James Stapleton of Simpsonville announce their engagement.

    Schlientz is originally from Long Island, N.Y., and is a CPA project manager at Humana in Louisville.

    Stapleton is the owner of Shelby County Chiropractic in Shelbyville.

    He proposed on Feb. 4 in Central Park, and the couple plans to marry at the Church of the Annunciation in Shelbyville on Oct. 15, 2011.

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  • Schools to consider expanding summers

    After a successful summer school expansion that focused on literacy in first- and third-grade students last year, Shelby County Superintendent James Neihof will ask the Shelby County Board of Education to help fund an even bigger undertaking at Thursday's 7 p.m. meeting at Southside Elementary.

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  • Green movement to start at its home

    The City of Shelbyville's Public Works Department is looking to turn its property into a showplace and teaching tool for a cleaner environment.

    Jennifer Herrell, the public works director and city engineer, received a $24,000 grant that will help fund the project to turn the location at 787 Kentucky Street into a sustainable and green campus for the city.

    When it's finished, the project will show several different ways to help deal with storm water runoff, as part of the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System program (MS4) she heads for the city.

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  • Shelby Energy elects Trimble woman to board

    Shelby Energy Cooperative has announced the selection of a new board member for District III, which covers parts of Carroll and Oldham counties.

    Diana Arnold will assume the position that was left vacant when Joe Butler resigned from the board last July.

    A Shelby County group has taken Shelby Energy to task over the past year, citing several member issues with the company and lack of transparency from the cooperative's board.

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  • EARLIER: City gives first OK to new sidewalk plan

    The Shelbyville City Council took the first step in toughening up its sidewalk ordinance.

    The council approved the first reading of an ordinance amendment that will allow property owners to go before the Code Enforcement Board if they wish to argue whether or not the sidewalk adjacent to or abutting their property needs to be fixed.

    The city’s current ordinance states that any property owner with a sidewalk along their property is responsible for the upkeep of that sidewalk.

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