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  • Ethington pays $25 fine for lost title

    Donnie Ethington, a longtime Shelbyville auto dealer who has continued to be the focus of legal assault for the way he has operated his business, agreed to pay a $25 fine for his latest and perhaps final offense.

    Ethington paid the fine in Shelby District Court on Thursday for an offense he incurred in March of not having provided a title to a customer in a timely manner.

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  • Substitute teachers talk Shelby County School Board into taking 2nd look at cuts

    Confronted by a group of substitute teachers upset with a plan to cut their pay scale, members of the Shelby County Board of Education on Thursday backtracked on those previously approved cuts and agreed to reconsider their decision.

    During a nearly 3-hour meeting, the board approved a tentative budget with total projected revenue of nearly $61 million, a 1.5 percent raise for certified employees and a 3 percent raise for classified employees, but it was substitute teachers who earned top billing.

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  • Shelby County Fiscal Court: Proposed raise up to 2 percent

    Shelby County magistrates approved at a special called meeting Tuesday morning a first reading of the 2013-14 budget with a couple of changes from what had been previously suggested, namely, a slightly higher raiser for county employees.
    Shelby County Judge-Executive Rob Rothenburger had proposed at his budget presentation on May 7 that a 1.76 percent raise for county employees be approved, but magistrates bumped that figure to 2 percent after holding a budget workshop Thursday.

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  • Seniors head out to face life

    Saturday was a day for tear and cheers, inspirational speeches and celebrations as more than 350 students graduated from Shelby County High School, Collins High School and private schools.

    Students are more ready than ever to meet the challenges of life after high school, with 207 seniors from Collins seniors, 220 from SCHS, 4 from Cornerstone Christian Academy, 1 from Corpus Christi, and 7 Shelby seniors from the Christian Academy of Louisville having earned at least $3 in scholarships, grants and awards.

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  • Collins seniors’ haul: $2 million in scholarships

    The Collins High School Auditorium was packed Thursday night with students, teachers, administrators and parents, all beaming with pride as scholarship after scholarship was announced, for a record total of $2,157,700.

    “We were thrilled,” Collins Principal John Leeper said after the 3-hour ceremony.

    “We challenged them at the beginning at the year to try to break one and a half million, and they heard us loud and clear and began applying early, and I think that was the key,” he said.

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  • Shelby County School Board: Student: Some Academy teachers ‘not that great’

    The Shelby County Board of Education got a little more than it may have expected in a report from students in the Accelerated Academy during its meeting Thursday.

    Six students, ranging from sophomores to juniors and from both high schools, dutifully answered questions about the program posed by Superintendent James Neihof.

    All reported that they enjoyed the program, the rigor and even the zero hour class that begins before other students even arrive in the morning.

    However, one student, Steven Chappo, provided a little more.

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  • Graduation 2013: Seniors say they’re ready to tackle the world

    Hundreds more residents of Shelby County will graduate from high schools this week and face that immediate question: Are they ready for life after graduation?

    That can’t be answered for several years, of course, but school officials say they are impressed with the seriousness that this year’s graduates are regarding their futures.

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  • School year wraps with a bang

    Students and teachers alike let out a yell of celebration on Wednesday afternoon as the school year came to an official end.

    Teachers were still required to work on Thursday to close out the year, but the students took their final bus rides home.

    The district was abuzz with celebration all week, with awards nights nearly every day or night and promotion ceremonies for kindergarten, sixth grade and eighth grade and field days in elementary schools dotting calendars.

    A few events were held for Wednesday afternoon to cap the year.

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  • A veteran who died in battle after war

    This Memorial Day there is one more family in Shelby County family that will remember a beloved son they never again will see but will hold in their hearts forever.

    Sean Cassedy, 31, a Marine who served three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and was horribly wounded, came home to a hero’s welcome in Bagdad in 2003.

    He survived the battlefield, but he could not overcome a battle raging inside him, spawned by memories of those bloody and awful days in combat in the Middle East.

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  • Triple S Planning Commission: Commission forced to postpone 2 decisions

    The Triple S Planning Commission’s agenda was cut short for Tuesday’s meeting by two postponements.

    The regular meeting at the Stratton Center opened by postponing, at the applicant’s request, of a zone change request for a less-than-1-acre tract on Benson Pike.

    The request is to change a .657-acre tract to General Commercial (C-3) from Residential (R).

    The property is on the south side of the Benson Pike, near its dead end. The request will now be heard at the commission’s meeting on June 18.

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