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Construction has started for the new Southside Elementary School, which will be built behind the current school, on Ginkgo Drive in Shelbyville.

The new facility is scheduled to be completed by next summer, making way for the demolition of most of the old school building. The school’s current gym and a few classrooms will remain.

The new building will be open for the 2014-15 school year. Here’s a look at the beginning stages of the construction.

The city of Shelbyville is under the microscope for the rainwater that bounces off the pavement in your driveway, skitters across your fertilized lawn and disappears untreated into the storm drain at the low point of your cul de sac.

And City Public Works Director Jennifer Herrell is tasked with making darn sure you know that every drop of runoff water is being monitored by the federal and state governments and the city is liable for how clean it might be.

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.

Shelby’s unemployment falls, ranks 4th best in state

Shelby County’s unemployment rate for April 2013 improved to the fourth best in the state.

New claims for the county showed a 6 percent rate, down from 7 percent in March but up slightly from 5.8 percent in April 2012, based on data released Thursday by the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.