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In the midst of a series of community meetings to garner public input about a new convenience center proposal for solid waste, officials have been doing legwork on the concept of providing home garbage service for residents.

Rusty Newton, Shelby County’s deputy-judge executive and chair of the 109 Board, the entity in charge of solid waste disposal in the county, said he met Friday with Magistrate Tony Carriss to prepare for a meeting Feb. 25 with the Shelby County Fiscal Court’s Legislative Committee.

Solid waste officials are ready to take their plan for a new facility to the public.

Kerry Magan, Shelbyville Mayor Tom Hardesty’s appointee for the 109 Board, said in the upcoming series of five public meetings scheduled for Tuesday through Feb. 12, government officials won’t be running the show.

 “Instead of the magistrates and the mayor, it will be citizens who show up to offer opinions and criticism who will be heard,” Magan said.

That first meeting is at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Simpsonville City Hall.

He was a man-child many embraced. He was an enigma who wouldn’t let anyone close enough to know what was inside him. He was a soul in search of something. He was overwhelmed by a problem no one could seem to identify.

This was a man-child who became angry at a coworker and was fired from his job, a large, forceful man who would not control his emotions until police took him away from his workplace and put him in a cell.

This was the former athlete struggling with changes in his body and life, looking to the Bible for new guidance.

A Campbellsville man filed suit Friday in Shelby Circuit Court, alleging that a Shelbyville doctor mistakenly amputated body parts during a hernia procedure.

Randall Phillips of Campbellsville filed suit Nov. 9 against Dr. Christopher J. Theuer, Surgical Associates PSC of Shelbyville and Louisville Surgical Associates.