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In an hour-long hearing in the Kentucky Supreme Court on Friday, attorneys argued and answered about Shelbyville attorney Mark Dean’s claim that Commonwealth Bank & Trust should have alerted him his secretary was moving large amounts of money among accounts by using counter checks.

All seven justices were present to hear Larry Zielke, Dean’s attorney, and John McGarvey for the bank attack and defend a ruling by Shelby County Circuit Judge Charles Hickman that Dean should have paid more attention to his accounts.

The Shelbyville City Council moves back to its regularly scheduled time this week with a 6:30 p.m. meeting on Thursday at City Hall, 315 Washington Street.

While the council will continue to work on some past business, it also will entertain two new resolutions pertaining to the efforts to obtain a Community Development Block Grant for the purchase of the old Blue Gables Motel on the corner of Main and 8th streets. The resolutions are for Fair Housing and on Antidisplacement and relocation assistance plans.

Sean Michael Chandler and Nina Marijanovic were married May 24, 2013, in a private ceremony in Bowling Green.

Parents of the bride are Ankica and Mladen Marijanovic of Bowling Green, formerly of Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Bob and Maurita Chandler of Bagdad.

Chandler is a 2004 graduate of Shelby County High School and a 2008 graduate of Centre College and is completing an MBA at the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics after working for several years in international education.

The good news that school officials relayed at Thursday night’s school board meeting is that MAP scores for spring 2013 show that the majority of students are maintaining or showing improvement in reading and math from last school year.

The not-so-good news is that improvement is not substantial enough,said Deputy Superintendent Lisa Smith, who presented MAP scores to the board for a comparison of scores for the school year, and a look at they differ from last year’s.