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Debbie Tapp of Shelbyville said the first time she saw Michael Jackson was on The Ed Sullivan Show when she was 7 years old.

Now Tapp and other Shelby County residents are dealing with the death of the “King of Pop” on Thursday.

“His music blessed my spirit a lot when he got down to the sensitive side,” Tapp said. “He's 'gone too soon.' ”

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Squire Boone is well remembered for his establishment of the first settlement in Shelby County, known as “The Painted Stone Station.”

School may be out for the summer, but that didn't stop some children from learning more about the Civil War this week.

About 45 elementary-aged children attended the history camp Tuesday through Thursday, said Sharon Hackworth, an organizer of the event. This is the second year for the camp, which was  sponsored by the Shelby County Historical Society.

Students saw and participated in reenactments of events from the 1860s, made crafts and interviewed people from the Civil War era, Hackworth said.

With all their companions either dead, missing or having headed back home to North Carolina, Daniel Boone and his brother Squire found themselves alone in a vast wilderness, known to them as “Kentucke.”

They hunted every day and spent the winter of 1769-70 in a “little cottage,” in the prose of author John Filson, which was probably, a lean-to, or a primitive log cabin.  On May 1, 1770, a year after the party’s departure from the Yadkin settlements in North C

Around $30,000 and two years later, the Shelby County Historical Society has completed and opened its Shelbyville Then and Now exhibit on the second floor of its building at 627 Main St.

The exhibit is loaded with downtown Shelby-related artifacts, photographs and a video that depict a portion of the county’s history spanning from 1870 to the present.

The first thing visitors will notice is a large rendering of early 1900s downtown Shelbyville.

Who better to watch out for the future of the planet than those who are the future?

When East Middle students from Candora McKinley’s seventh-grade science class went before the Shelbyville City Council Thursday, the mayor and council members listened attentively as the students shared their mission – part of Project Citizen – to battle littering in the city, particularly around bodies of water.

Do you love them or hate them? Do you prefer them stale or fresh?

There are no mixed feelings about Peeps, those various-colored, sugarcoated marshmallows that arrive in homes everywhere at this time of year courtesy of the Easter Bunny or an outright purchase.

They are more than the sugar, corn syrup and gelatin they contain. They are a fun tradition of Easter.

Even children who don't like Peeps miss them from their Easter baskets. And Peeps sometimes can be found on tops of refrigerators as late as the Fourth of July.

Heather Axline was "off the chart" when her bone density was checked at the Women's Wellness Affair Tuesday at Claudia Sanders Dinner House.

Axline, a graduate of Shelby County High School and former girls basketball player, had her bone density checked by a heel scan done by employees of Jewish Hospital using a bone ultrasonometer. Her results showed outstanding bone density and strength.

Sixth Street will be closed tonight for a rockin’ good time.

The second Sixth Street Live concert of the year will run free for all the public from 7 to around 10 p.m. and will be headlined by the Mitchell Toll band and Aaron Schupert.

“Just come and enjoy the music,” The Mitchell Toll band member Brent Mathis said.

Food vendors will include Bistro 535 and Earth's Promise Farm/ Certified Organic Pastured Poultry.