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Today's News

  • Shelby County Fiscal Court: County employees may receive raise

    County employees would receive get a small raise this year, if the proposed 2013-14 budget presented Tuesday night by Shelby County Judge-Executive Rob Rothenburger gets final approval.

    In his budget presentation Rothenburger said he was recommending a 1.74 percent pay increase for full-time employees.

    Rothenburger called the $18.1 million budget, which is a shade more than last year’s budget of $17.8 million “a balanced budget.”

    Rothenburger commended his department heads, including the road department.

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  • Foundation looking to help groups gain financial stability

    Since its inception 23 years ago, the Shelby County Community Foundation has donated more than $1.2 million to local non-profits, but now the foundation would like to help charities become more self-sustaining.

    On Monday, the foundation released a statement announcing that it is offering a $10,000 matching funds grant to the Shelby County Community Theatre to help fund an endowment to provide future sustainability.

    The theater had approached the foundation for help setting up an endowment.

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  • Simpsonville pays off project phase, passes along LED request

    Issues involving the downtown Village Center District in Simpsonville – at least changes involving those long-range plans – dominated the discussion at Tuesday’s meeting of the Simpsonville City Commission.

    Commissioners voted to close out payment for the first phase of the sidewalk project for the downtown corridor and also approved on first reading a text amendment for a zone change for that corridor to allow for moderately sized LED signs.

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  • Women’s self-defense class small, but successful

    A small group of women who attended a self-defense class at the extension office Tuesday night may not have come away with a black belt in martial arts, but they may have learned something that could save their lives in the future, organizers of the class said.

    “It was a really hands-on class, and I feel sure that everyone who was there walked away feeling more confident about their self-protection,” said Elizabeth Pulliam, executive director of Shelby Prevention.

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  • Juvenile arrested for threat to Collins High School

    A juvenile has been arrested and charged with making a threatening phone call that led to the evacuation and early end of the school day at Collins High School on Monday.

    In a press conference at Shelby County Public Schools on Tuesday afternoon, Maj. Jason Rice, a detective with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, said a juvenile was arrested at approximately 7:30 p.m. Monday and has been charged with terroristic threatening.

    The name, age and gender of the suspect was withheld because he or she is a minor.

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  • Shelbyville City Council: City presents balanced budget, needs tweak

    The Shelbyville City Council held a first reading Thursday for the 2013-14 city, and that will require a sight tweak this week before a final consideration.

    The council will have a special called meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday to add the potential revenue from a grant it hasn’t been awarded.

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  • Vendor issues take K-PREP off line statewide

    On top of Monday’s safety issues at Collins High School, Shelby County Public Schools already had made a quick change to its K-PREP testing, which also began Monday.

    The district was forced to alter its testing situation because of an issue with ACT, which is the vendor for the end-of-course testing.

    Shelby County was one of several districts statewide that were scheduled to begin testing online this year. However, ACT began having issues with its online test and by Friday temporarily had suspended online testing because of technical issues.

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  • New York group makes Shelbyville home for Derby

    A group of New Yorkers had such a great time celebrating the Derby in Shelbyville last year, not only did they return this year, but they plan to make the trip a tradition, they say.

    “There are a lot of determining factors, but so far it’s worked out very well for the second year in a row and we’ll keep doing it if we can,” said Bob Simons of Lockport N.Y., where the majority of the 53 people in the group reside.

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  • Why do apartments stand? Contractor, asbestos issues

    With construction of the CVS store moving forward at breakneck speed, many have been left scratching their heads about why the condemned Wesley Apartments remain standing at the corner of U.S. 60 and Freedom’s Way.

    “It’s kind of been a perfect storm of issues,” developer Todd Clark said. “First the contractor wasn’t moving as fast as they were supposed to, and then we had some weather issues and now some environmental issues. There was some small amounts of asbestos found in the kitchen floors that we didn’t expect.”

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  • Ethington Auto no longer licensed

    Donnie Ethington, a longtime Shelbyville auto dealer who continues to be focus of legal assault for the way he has operated his business, no longer has a license to sell automobiles.

    A Franklin Circuit Judge has ruled that Ethington Auto can no longer function as an automobile dealership but that Donnie Ethington may sell the remainder of the vehicles he already has.

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