Today's News

More than 100 Shelby County Cub Scouts attended the Daniel Boone district annual day camp at Lake Shelby in June. One of the activities was for all the scouts to celebrate themselves.

It’s no secret; no matter how healthy a lunch you eat that afternoon letdown works its way in. That sluggish, tired feeling of a long day can be a lot to take in.

But at East Middle students start to stir for a different reason.

As the clock gets closer and closer to 1:30 in the afternoon, students are ready to go. They will line up at level 0 (which means quiet as a church mouse, no talking) and slowly walk outside.

The property tax rate will be the primary subject during Thursday’s Shelby County Board of Education meeting.

During its meeting earlier this month, Superintendent James Neihof presented the board with several key concepts that he said he would like to fund or keep funding, all of which would require new revenue streams for the district.

Now, when the board convenes tomorrow night at 7 at Collins High School, members will decide which programs, if any, for which they would like to find funding and if that funding will come from a tax increase.

We have had an alarming situation brought to our attention.

Our state Cabinet for Health and Family Services recently turned down

a request for aid from a young Shelby County woman who was brave enough to take on the sudden responsibility of caring for a sister she did not know she even had.

The woman’s father, who had left her family when she was a baby, went on to father another child many years later, and that child in-turn lost both its parents.