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SCHS senior awards handed out Thursday

Shelby County High School will celebrate a year of success with its annual Senior Awards Night on Thursday at 6:30 in the school’s theater.

Seniors that have secured scholarships and won academic awards will be honored, the male and female athletes of the year will be announced, and students who have achieved goals and benchmarks will be celebrated.

Last year more than 30 SCHS students earned more than $1 million in scholarships to schools across the country.

The Shelbyville City Council will continue on Thursday night to advance its 2013-14 city budget by considering a second reading of the ordinance establishing that budget.

The council held a special meeting last Thursday to repeat the first reading of the budget it had moved along on May 2. The budget had been tweaked to include potential funds the city is hoping – and expecting – to receive in the form of a Community Block Grant to use on the rehabilitation of the old Blue Gables Motel at the corner of 8th and Main streets.

The first reading of Shelby County’s budget was postponed because magistrates have not had a chance to review it, county officials said.

County Judge-Executive Rob Rothenburger said at Tuesday’s meeting of the Shelby County Fiscal Court that since magistrates have not conducted a budget workshop, the first reading, which was supposed to have been Tuesday, would be moved to a special called meeting next week.

State officials this week gave their sort-of-final approval to Simpsonville’s downtown sidewalk project, and the city is about to advertise for bids, Mayor Steve Eden told the Simpsonville City Commission at its meeting on Wednesday morning.

The project, which first began with the federal stimulus grant application in 2008, has been stuck in slow motion by federal and state regulations about the release of the $320,000 the city received to build new sidewalks along the south side of U.S. 60 between Fairview Drive and Old Veechdale Road.