Today's News

Pat Weber (left) presented Shelby County Area Technology Automotive student Joseph Martin the $5,000 Ohio Technical College Scholarship that he received at the SkillsUSA Regional Competition held at Elizabethtown KCTCS. Ohio Technical College has always been a big supporter of Skills USA and for the past 4 years in Kentucky’s regional and state competitions in automotive, diesel, collision repair and refinishing.

Shelby County students attended KUNA (Kentucky United Nations Assembly) in March at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Louisville.

The West Middle proposal writers representing Indonesia and the Philippines wrote and presented proposals on ending child prostitution and AIDS. The West Middle proposal, representing Indonesia, was passed in the United Nations summit sessions.

The East Middle ambassadors represented Spain with a proposal on ending desertification.

She is in Pam Pickens’ homeroom, and Nick Edwards is her writing teacher.

“The winner last year was from Edwards' room, also,” Coordinator Marie Wright said. “I'm very pleased at the effort put forth by Nick. Obviously he's doing something right to have two winners in a row!”

Caeli will be honored at the Shelby County Retired Teachers meeting on June 7.

Shelby County Public Schools is going to have a lot of hiring to do this summer.

Karen Downs and Steven Rucker, principals of Clear Creek and Heritage elementary schools, respectively, have told administrators they will not return next year.

Adding them to the three principals — Collins High School’s Anthony Hatchell, East Middle’s Christine Powell and Wright Elementary’s Lynn Gottbrath — who announced their retirements earlier this year, it means the district will be searching for new principals at five of its nine schools.

Margaret Hall and her whole family were born and raised in Shelby County, and she's hoping that local connection can get everyone to log on to their computers.

Hall, who's 14-year-old son Glenn was born with a rare chromosomal disease, partial trisomy 6Q, and is confined to a wheelchair, is trying to get votes through the Website www.mobilityawarenessmonth.com to win a wheelchair-accessible van.

Today I’d like to take a few minutes of your time to talk about what I believe is perhaps the saddest word in the English language.

Now, some might suggest that the saddest word is a medically-related word such as “inoperable” or “‘terminal,” and I certainly am not minimizing those. Others might think the saddest word is more philosophical, such as “almost.”