Today's News

Things are sprucing up on Main Street as a new business set up shop earlier this month.

Spruce now calls 700 Main Street home, where At Home on 7th and Main was previously located.

The new home décor and gift shop is owned by Cortney and Tyler Henry.

“The guy that was here before, he actually moved a block away from where we where, so we just kinda flip-flopped places, it worked out perfectly, and now we are five minutes from home,” said Cortney Henry.

Thanks to some diligent work by security personnel at the Outlet Shoppes of the Bluegrass and the Simpsonville Police Department, two large-scale shoplifting cases were thwarted.

At about 3 p.m. Monday, police were alerted by the Loss Prevention Department of Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH store of two Hispanic males shoplifting from the store.

According to the report, three Armani suits were stolen, but a suspect returned one of the suits to the store.

At the young age of 23 Kelly Samples McNew is the new Director of Shelby Prevention, a position that sat vacant for a year after funds ran short last fall.

After graduating from Georgetown in 2012 with a degree in Communications and Media Studies, the Bagdad-native said she bounced from job to job while speaking to students and prisoners about the dangers of driving under the influence.

“My brother and I were both hit by a drunk driver when I was 12. He was driving...he was 20. I flew from the backseat to the front windshield.”

The Shelby County Community Foundation has been awarding grants to organizations for more than twenty years, providing nearly 100 Shelby County organizations with more than $1.3 million in donations.

This year, 11 local organizations received a total of $46,720 through the Partnership Grant Fund, said Howard Griffith, chair of the foundation,

“How many of you have enough money to fund your organization for the next two years,” Griffith asked rhetorically.