Today's News

After a slow start, the Shelbyville American Legion Post 37 baseball team easily dispatched of Frankfort, 11-3, Tuesday.

Trailing, 2-1, after three innings, Shelbyville finally woke up.

Tyler Tipton’s single scored Jordan Toby to tie the score in the fourth, and Shelby took the lead in fifth, when James Wright scored on Jared Clarkson’s single.

“We played pretty well,” Coach Jim Wiley said. “We made a couple mistakes early, but overall I thought we did all right.”

Diann Cook of Shelbyville said one of her favorite parts of the fireworks display at Clear Creek Park on Sunday was how the show began.

In the past, the City of Shelbyville had to contract out much of its engineering work, leading to some expensive bills and grueling lag times on getting results.

That way of doing business will change on Aug. 3, when Jennifer Harrell takes her position as the city's first official full-time city engineer and public works director.

"She'll be able do our engineering duties, to look over development plans. In the past we'd have to contract all that out. Now we'll have a full time person on staff to do it," Mayor Tom Hardesty said.

One of the most basic facts a newspaper tries desperately to have correct is the spelling of a name. It’s a one of those slap-your-wrists fundamentals we learned at journalism school, because our errors endure in ink on paper.

Even if every other fact is wrong, we want that one to be right. And, frankly, when it comes to cops and courts, we have to be extra careful. You wouldn’t want to have a wrong name in an arrest report of a serial killer.

We know we sometimes err, but we sweat the small stuff all the time.