Today's News

Members of the Shelby Sharks swim team would like to align themselves with the prestigious Lakeside Swim Club from Louisville – but that might not be OK with the Shelby County Parks & Recreation Board.

The parks board at its meeting Tuesday will consider whether it wants to work with the Sharks on a new agreement to use the Family Activities Center at Clear Creek Park or even take over operating the team.

A DNA test of a sample of saliva from a mutilated calf killed April 17 in Waddy – the latest in a long string of animal maulings – has narrowed down the species of the killer to a dog.

“It is definitely a domestic dog,” Animal Control Supervisor Rusty Newton said.

However, Newton said the test was not sophisticated enough to identify a specific breed of dog.

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.”

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.