Friday, April 4, 2025
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Gaming Corner Debuts
The 600-pound, concrete-style chess/checker board stations, with ADA accessibility and 300-pound stools, have been installed, with help from Beaty Construction, on Public Square in the southeast quadrant, in front of Spegal’s Prime Cuts and Bishopp’s Appliances. The Community Gaming Corner was developed by the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Shelby County Class of 2025. A ribbon cutting will be held Saturday, April 12, 1:30 p.m. | photos by JACK BOYCE
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SCS Hosts Kindergarten Kick-off
A large crowd turned out for Shelbyville Central Schools’ Kindergarten open house last night in multiple areas at Shelbyville Middle School. From meeting teachers to touring a bus and gathering Kindergarten readiness information, kids and parents were busy visiting the numerous resources. “We’re just trying to get them acclimated to everything that the community has, along with what we have here at Shelbyville Central Schools,” SCS Assistant Superintendent Kathleen Miltz said in between directing traffic from the microphone in the cafetorium. | by ANNA TUNGATE
NOTEBOOK:
An accident Wednesday evening at E. State Road 44 and Duran Drive caused a vehicle to roll over and a woman to be transported to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis for further evaluation. Police closed the east-bound lanes on State Road 44 after observing a white Silverado facing west in east-bound traffic with major front-end damage and a blue Jeep Cherokee on the sidewalk flipped onto the driver’s side. Fire department and EMT personnel extricated both passengers from the Jeep. The windshields and roof of the vehicle were removed during the process. The driver of the Silverado suffered only minor injuries.
The schedule for culvert pipe replacements on N. State Road 9 has changed, with work starting on April 7 for the pipe across CR 50 E, on April 9 for the pipe across 650 N, and a one-day hard closure south of 750 N on April 8, all weather permitting.
The Shelbyville High School Choir Department is holding a flapjack fundraiser at Applebee’s on Saturday, April 12, 8 - 10 a.m. Purchase tickets from any SHS choir student or contact Mr. Kenemore, jikenemore@shelbycs.org.
HOOSIER NEWS: Survey teams have confirmed three tornadoes after Wednesday night’s severe weather. EF-2 tornado damage just east of Brownsburg in Hendricks County, EF-1 tornado damage in Carmel, and EF-0 tornado damage near Heltonville in Lawrence County were reported Thursday. (Indiana Public Media)
NATIONAL NEWS: The Wikimedia Foundation, which is responsible for the servers that host not just Wikipedia but also the myriad of adjacent open internet libraries like Wikimedia Commons’ 144 million media files, is reporting extensive strain under the burden of AI scraping its sites. This has some pretty considerable costs when you’re a site the size of Wikipedia, and the foundation found that bots were responsible for 35 percent of total pageviews. More importantly, AI made 65 percent of the most expensive requests to their systems; essentially, the scrapers were responsible for some of the most demanding downloads. (Ars Technica/Numlock)
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SHS Courier Archive Highlights
May 12, 1927
SHS Principal Warren Peters resigned. He had first taught Latin at SHS before becoming principal when Mr. Kibbey was promoted to superintendent.
Among those named to the 1927-28 Courier staff were Winfield Scott, George Stubbs and Editor-in-Chief Mary Majorie Mull. The Courier had started three years’ prior, under the direction of Mr. Peters. It was first called The Black and Gold Courier, and later shortened to The Courier. The staff credited students Stella Jarrell, Richard Jones, Josephine Yarling and Lawrence Reece for ensuring the endeavor became institutionalized.
The School Board had approved the purchase of the National baseball park for use as the SHS athletic field for baseball and football.
The Traffic Organization, in charge of regulating traffic in the halls, named a group of students for the next academic year who would help the principal and Alfred Campbell.
The annual freshmen-sophomore reception was held in the old gym. A two-course dinner was served, and the program featured comedy and dancing.
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This Day in Shelby County History
News around Shelbyville and the surrounding area as reported on or about this date in history. Selections are curated by The Addison Times from Shelby County Public Library Genealogy Department materials.
2005: Shelbyville attorney Ellen Whitt joined the presidential campaign of Sen. Richard Lugar, who planned to formally announce his candidacy at City Market Plaza in Indianapolis in the coming days. Whitt had previously worked on Sen. Lugar’s staff.
Police went to a local apartment after a neighbor said a man’s loud radio had knocked the pictures off her wall. The man, however, did not respond when officers knocked on the door, possibly due to the loud noise, police reported.
1995: The board of works approved allowing Betty Roberts to keep her address, 1221 Alexander St., even though the street no longer existed. The council had vacated Alexander Street, which was never developed but had one house, Roberts’, on it. The “street” was vacated to Beverly Street Self Storage to build an additional storage building.
1985: Memorial services were held for Frazier Thomas, 66, the Rushville native who became almost synonymous with children and family television programming on Chicago superstation WGN-TV. Mr. Thomas had been host of “The Bozo Show” and “Family Classics”. He had been stricken with a brain hemorrhage in the hallway outside his television office before a taping of “The Bozo Show” and never regained consciousness. Thomas had been host of “The Bozo Show” since 1976, when he replaced Ned Locke. He had started “Family Classics” in 1961. Due to advance taping, Thomas would be seen on “The Bozo Show” through mid-September, Chicago media reported.
1975: The Blue River Valley, Shelbyville and Morristown Jaycees sponsored “Jelly Week”, replacing “Honey Sunday”, which for the past few years had been sponsored by the Jaycees. Proceeds from the sale of jelly would be used to assist those with developmental disabilities. Steve Perkinson, Jim Ford and Jim Williams headed the drive.
Two Shelbyville women were among the 15 Ball State students competing to be Miss Ball State: Deborah Hilderbrand and Julie Everman.
1965: Over 475 employees at General Electric in Shelbyville were given a 5 percent raise for the second time in 19 months. Life insurance coverage was doubled.
1955: The J.G. DePrez Co. held a toy sale: $1.49 for roller skates, $4.95 for “Hi-n-Lo Stilts” and Terri-Lee dolls for $10.95.
1945: It had been the hottest March in Indiana since 1871, the first year local records were kept. Several times the temperature and been in the 80s and it was below 32 degrees only three days in March 1945.
SHS Athletic Director Arthur Barnett reported that 31 boys had come out for track and 43 tried out for the baseball team.
1935: City Council approved an ordinance to slow the activities of “foreign” (out-of-town) peddlers/house-to-house salesman. The salesmen would be required to pay a license fee of $5 a day, $25 a week or $100 a month.
Liquor dealers were “incensed” over the loss of Sunday business due to a new state law, The Republican reported.
1925: Paul Blackburn, Shelbyville High School, won the county oratorical contest held at Charles Major school. Dorothy Courtner, Mt. Auburn, was second and Irene Emerick, Boggstown, was third.
1915: Twenty-seven Boy Scout took a 14 mile hike from Shelbyville up the Marion Pike.
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OBITUARIES
Sandra Kay Webb, age 81, of Shelbyville, Indiana, passed away on Sunday, March 30, 2025. Sandra was born in Johnson County, Ind., to Bernard and Thelma (Mitchell) Bullock on May 12, 1943. She married John Glenn Webb on November 6, 1965, in Shelbyville. She graduated from Shelbyville High School in 1961. After high school, she worked for a few years for the state at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
She is survived by her husband, John; daughter, Jennifer Webb-Kellermeier of Indianapolis; daughter and son-in-law, Suzanne and Paul Lewis of Franklin; son and daughter-in-law, Robert and Nichole Webb of Lafayette; and brother and sister-in-law, Tim and Judy Bullock of Terre Haute. She is also survived by her grandsons, Quentin Lewis, Jacob Lewis, and Ryan Lewis, all of Franklin. Sandra is preceded in death by her parents, son-in-law Robert Kellermeier, and step-granddaughter Christina Kellermeier.
Sandra spent most of her life as a devoted farmer’s wife and a stay-at-home mother. She loved reading, gardening, decorating, cooking, and shopping. She also loved a good euchre game and belonged to several euchre clubs. She was a member of the 49ers Home EC Club and the Homemaker's Social Study Club for many years. She loved her grandchildren and spent much of her time with them.
A visitation for Sandra will be held on Monday, April 7, 2025, from 10 a.m. until 12 p.m. at Glenn E. George and Son Funeral Home, 437 Amos Rd., Shelbyville, IN 46176. A funeral service will follow at noon. Burial will be at 2nd Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Johnson County. In Lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, Riley Children's Foundation (in memory of Christina Kellermeier), or the charity of your choice. Online condolences may be shared at glennegeorgeandson.com.