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Today's News

  • 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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  • EARLIER: Ethington faces new charge

    Four months after pleading guilty to failing to give titles to people who bought cars from him, dealer Donnie Ethington has been cited again for the same offense, police said.

    On Thursday Kentucky State Police cited Ethington for failing to give a motor vehicle title to a customer.

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  • Former Shelby teacher retires again -- for third time

    David Hedrick is a man who knows about retirement. He has retired from at least two positions in his long-standing career as a musician and choral director. This past February, Hedrick retired….again.

    This time, it was from his position as musical director of The Stephen Foster Story, in Bardstown.

    Many Shelby County residents have sung and learned under the direction of David Hedrick as choral director at Shelby County High School. It was from here he earned his first retirement after 28 years teaching.

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  • 2nd historic fire isn’t arson

    Another downtown Shelbyville landmark smoldered and smoked following a devastating fire on Sunday, and its owner wasn’t seeing simply the charred remains of the once grand home but also the death of her father’s dream and perhaps the ashes of his legacy.

    Lucy Kerman on Monday talked in a broken voice about the heart-wrenching despair she felt when she got the call Sunday morning telling her that the Chatham House, one of Shelbyville’s oldest homes and part of her family for more than 50 years, was burning.

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  • Shelbyville man charged with sodomy of child

    A Shelbyville man arrested in connection with a sex crime against a child could have more charges to follow, police say.

    Joshua S. Nation, 30, of 471 Midland Blvd. was arrested Monday at his residence and charged with first-degree sodomy of a child under 12 years old.

    The police report states that the 11-year-old victim told police that she had been sodomized orally on at least three occasions since April 1. Consequently, Shelbyville Police Chief Danny Goodwin said that more charges could follow pertaining to the same victim.

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  • Shelbyville will continue with curbside pickup plan

    The once solid solid-waste and recycling plan being developed by officials from Shelbyville and Shelby County again will be a fragmented effort among three government bodies.

    Members of the Shelby County Fiscal Court’s Legislative Committee made it official Thursday, saying that it was not moving forward with a curbside plan and leaving the city of Shelbyville and the 109 Solid Waste Board to fend for their own plans.

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  • Buck Creek Road widening is under way

    Simpsonville residents will be seeing more road construction around the city’s Interstate 64 interchange.

    State contractors began Monday the widening of KY 1848, Buck Creek Road, extending from about a third of a mile south of I-64 to the entrance of the Shelby County Flea Market.

    “They’re going to start putting signs up this week to let people know about the project, but the actual work won’t begin until the twenty-second,” said Andrea Clifford, public information officer for the Department of Highways District 5 office.

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  • ‘It’s hard to imagine that kind of evil’

    The heinous bombing at the Boston Marathon on Monday that killed three people and injured 183 others reverberated around the world and home to Shelby County.

    There were a handful of persons who listed Shelby County addresses on the official marathon entry list, and some of the finished the event with an awed reaction for what happened shortly afterward.

    Susanne Busey Osberg, a Shelby County native who has lived in Boston for 41 years, said the bombing brought back the horrible events of Sept. 11, 2001, to her in a very real way.

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  • Shelby 911 dispatcher talks man into dropping weapon, surrendering

    A tense police standoff in Finchville early Saturday morning ended peacefully, thanks to the heroic efforts of a Shelby County 911 dispatcher.

    Supervisor Tony Kent, who was on duty that night with dispatcher Bobbi Richardson, said the last thing he expected was to be on the phone, talking an unstable person surrounded by armed police officers into laying down his shotgun and giving himself up.

    “I expected any minute to hear shots over the phone,” Kent said.

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