The Board of Works approved a couple of road closures this week for St. Joseph’s Catholic Church’s Spring Festival.
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The Waldron Hometown Advisory Committee awarded the Waldron Community Volunteer Fire Department a $5,000 grant from the Waldron Hometown Community Fund (held at the Blue River Community Foundation). This grant will help them purchase additional equipment for their new Pumper-Tanker 641 so th…
STATEHOUSE — Senate District 42 was recently awarded funds to help communities continue to address the impact of COVID-19, said State Sen. Jean Leising (R-Oldenburg).
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Recycling Coalition (IRC) announced its partnership with Knauf Insulation in the Indianapolis Circular Economy Initiative (ICEI) Tuesday, as part of its month-long celebration of Earth Day.
Shelbyville Central Teachers Association President Meredith Hall will speak at the next Shelby County Democrats meeting.
Shelby County Council approved a $1.4 million renovation project Tuesday for the Shelby County Library.
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Indiana Special Olympics held their State Basketball tournament April 3 at Pacer Athletic Center in Westfield, IN.
Patrick Addis started the Friends of the Blue River after interning for the City of Shelbyville’s engineering department.
A fire broke out at Three Sisters Books and Gifts Tuesday morning. Fire Chief Tony Logan said that the fire started after construction workers laying pavers accidentally got a propane torch too close to a column in the front of the building. The column “worked a lot like a chimney,” Logan sa…
Lions Club pork chop dinner set for April 30
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Thursday is a pretty special day for the Shelby County Recycling District.
The Northwestern Consolidated School District Board of Trustees approved a contract this week with Antal Building Corporation to repair and expand the press box at Bud Mendenhall Field.
Margaret Mae Schweitzer, a senior at Triton Central High School, is this year’s Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Essay Contest winner for Shelby County.
The Shelby County Commissioners approved a couple of items Monday morning.
The City Council discussed a few items during its Monday Morning meeting.
There are at least four projects scheduled for this summer by INDOT that will affect various roads in Shelby County.
State Sen. Jean Leising (R-Oldenburg, podium) recognizes the 100th anniversary of the Hoosier Gym and the 35th anniversary of the film Hoosiers’ release with Senate Concurrent Resolution 22 at the Statehouse Wednesday, April 14. Located in Knightstown (Henry County), the Hoosier Gym was feat…
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Valarie Pickett started keeping bees in 2015 after her doctor said she should eat more honey.
WASHINGTON — Senator Mike Braun, Senator Michael Bennet, Senator Richard Burr, and Senator Tim Scott have introduced the bipartisan Voluntary Protection Program Act in the Senate, a bill that would codify and revive an OSHA program that encourages businesses to adopt stringent safety and hea…
The Shelby County Drug Coalition is urging Indiana Grand Racing and Casino to go smoke free as part of its efforts to convince all restaurant, bar and club owners to do the same.
The Shelbyville Police Department is warning the community about a new Internet challenge teenagers are participating in.
“I want to draw everybody’s attention to HB 1266,” Shelby Eastern Schools transportation director Katrina Falk told the school board Wednesday evening.
Every now and then I will drive through neighborhoods to look at landscaping ideas and I always come across a beautiful flower garden or two. Ever wonder what you need to do to have one just like it? If you’d like a low-maintenance flower garden, your most important work will be done with pe…
The Shelbyville High School band performed its spring concert Wednesday evening. It was the last concert Director Russell Smith performed before he retires at the end of the school year. The final song they performed was titled, “Time to say goodbye.” Smith highlighted that the song was for …
After keeping an eye on the chute slides at the Meridian Park Aquatic Center for a couple of years, Shelbyville Parks Department Director Karen Martin decided it was time to replace them.
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Triton Central Schools celebrated the opening of the newly renovated fieldhouse Wednesday evening. The facility has three basketball courts, a weight room, a wrestling room, and a viewing area that overlooks the courts.
The Shelby Eastern School Board moved to spend nearly $1 million on various much needed infrastructure upgrades at its Wednesday evening meeting.
The Shelby County Recycling District will hold its spring Clean Up and Shred Day from 7 a.m. to noon May 8 at the Shelby County Fairgrounds.
‘Who the heck is Jack Hanna?” I asked the staff during a TV production meeting in the fall of 1979.
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder is a journey through an America that most of us don’t know. It is the America of the “houseless” as the people sometimes refer to themselves. Not homeless because they have a home even if just happens to be their cars. For many of these nomads, this group of older…
The Southwestern Consolidated School District School Board discussed several upcoming events Wednesday evening, including the annual sixth grade field trip and summer renovations.
Construction workers build the base of where the fountain in the middle of the Public Square will be. They constructed a shelter in front of Munchies on Tuesday which will act as both a shelter for outdoor dining and a stage for live performances. Another shelter will go up in the northeast …
STATEHOUSE — Shelbyville Senior High School graduate Sarah Work is gaining experience as an intern with State Rep. Sean Eberhart (R-Shelbyville) and his fellow members of the Indiana House of Representatives during the 2021 legislative session.
Triton Central Elementary is excited to announce that online registration for incoming kindergarten students for the 2021-2022 school year is now open.
Editor’s Note: Amiss and her business are in the suite located directly upstairs of The Shelbyville News. The Shelbyville News no longer owns the building we operate out of and is not affiliated with Amiss’ business. We are simply neighboring suites in the same building.
HB 1381 died on the senate floor during Tuesday’s Indiana Senate chamber session.
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Leadership Shelby County Group “Friends of the Fair” did some work at the Shelby County Fairgrounds on Saturday, including gardening and cleaning the buildings. Here, the group is assisted by Shelbyville High School art students in painting a mural on one of the fairgrounds’ buildings.
Two people inside the house at 933 N. Hampton Street are okay after a house fire Monday evening. Fire Chief Tony Logan said the fire started when a woman in the house spilled hot wax on a cloth. The house underwent a lot of fire, smoke and water damage, Logan said, and is now boarded up.
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Plastic bags covered the 369 seats of the still-dark Strand Theatre as its all-volunteer staff prepare for the laying and cutting of concrete under the stage – the next step in the leveling of the stage project, which commenced in the midst of the pandemic and is nearing its completion.
Gregg McManus, born and raised in Rushville, has published a sci-fi/political thriller called “The Bug Light Room” that takes place in Indiana. The plot follows two Hoosiers who manage to destroy an alien spacecraft and the mayhem it creates only two weeks before a close presidential electio…
Out of an abundance of caution, the Shelby County Health Department has temporarily suspended the Johnson & Johnson vaccinations at its sites.
On Sunday, April 25 WHMB TV-40 is pleased to announce the debut of Spiritual Honesty co-hosted by Pastor Brad Schultz current pastor of Zion Evangelical Church in Shelbyville and Pastor Randy Wilken of St. Louis.
The Board of Works approved two locations for SCUFFY’s road block fundraiser from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 1.
Senior Katie Mathies gives teammate Karissa Hamilton a chest bump after one of Hamilton’s home runs in the first game of a doubleheader. Hamilton hit four homers in two games, including three in the first. Shelbyville easily won the first game, 18-3, then went onto win, 12-5, in a rain-short…
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INFBPW/Shelbyville met April 7
The Shelby County Board of Commissioners approved a couple of proclamations during its Monday morning meeting.
Mainstreet Shelbyville and the Shelby County United Fund For You (SCUFFY) have teamed up to hold a Dine for SCUFFY event Wednesday and Thursday to help raise money for the United Fund.
POET Biorefining has joined several other biofuel companies around the state opposing Senate Bill 303.
Southwestern held its Prom on over the weekend, where Gavin Bulmer and Bri Tucker were crowned king and queen.
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