Friday, July 12, 2024
Johnson Runs for Re-Election to SCS School Board
(Media Release) Local attorney Curt Johnson filed to run for re-election in the upcoming School Board race for Shelbyville Central Schools. Johnson, former Board President, seeks re-election to the Addison Township seat that he first won in 2016.
“While there is always room for improvement, I am proud of the education that our community affords our children, and it has been a pleasure to be on the Board and be a part of efforts to make it even better,” Johnson stated.
“I have a firm belief that having strong public schools is the cornerstone of a healthy society. It is the great leveler, allowing people from all economic backgrounds to make the most of their potential.”
Johnson is a product of Shelbyville Central School himself, having graduated from SHS in 1990. After his time at SHS, this McKeand Award and Rotary Wrestling Award winner attended Wabash College on a National Merit Finalist scholarship, graduating with honors as a Spanish major. Johnson went on to get his law degree and MBA from Indiana University-Bloomington and afterwards performed a research fellowship at the University of Cambridge, England. In conjunction with his studies of Spanish and other languages, Johnson studied or worked in Mexico, Spain, Panama, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, giving him a broad perspective.
In addition to his support of the schools, Johnson is a longtime leader in the Shelbyville community. Johnson returned home to Shelbyville in 2001 and joined the law firm now known as DePrez, Johnson, Brant and Eads, P.A. He earned the Outstanding Young Lawyer Award from Indiana State Bar Association in 2005. He is past coordinator of Shelby County Pro Bono Program and former member of the Grant Committee for the Blue River Foundation. He and his wife, Amy, along with their five children, Jack, age 20, Lilly and Ella, age 18, Molly, age 15, and Sam, age 12, are parishioners at St. Joseph Church. Johnson has enjoyed coaching his children and others in football, soccer, baseball and basketball, estimating that over the years he has coached almost 300 area youths.
For more information, please check out the Facebook page Curt Johnson for Shelbyville Central School Board.
Miller St. Rezone Moves to Plan Commission
The owners of the Valero gas station on Colescott Street will return to City Hall this month to request rezoning vacant property adjacent to the station to Business General to allow for future expansion. Birpartap Saini, one of the owners of K & B Partners, which owns the station, previously received approval on first reading from the Common Council and now must take the petition to the Plan Commission.
The property, 713 S. Miller St., previously included a home and is currently zoned residential. K& B Partners intends to use the lot for a future store that will connect to the current location at 603 Colescott Street, petition materials state. The city planning staff is recommending approval of the petition.
The city Plan Commission meets Monday, July 22, 7 p.m. at City Hall, with a pre-meeting at 6:30 p.m. There will be no Shelby County Plan Commission this month.
NOTEBOOK:
The Shelbyville Municipal Airport will host Fly-In Community Day, August 17, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. “Attendees will have the opportunity to explore a variety of aircraft up close, enjoy delicious food from Dayton’s Family Affair, and indulge in sweet treats from the ice cream vendor, Whip It,” a city media release said. Live music will be provided by Larry Boggs Music. The event is free, although food is not included.
NATIONAL NEWS: FEMA has a $3 billion annual spend on disaster recovery, and a frustration has been that rebuilding often means rebuilding on the exact spot where a building was particularly vulnerable to flooding. FEMA has long defined a “floodplain” as a place that has a 1 percent chance of flooding in any given year, but now will expand that definition to factor in the future flood risk of an area. That would necessitate rebuilding things elevated above that floodplain in the future and cutting the odds they get submerged again. That’s pricier in the short term — the cost of elevating and flood-proofing structures could add $150 million in costs over the next decade, because a 2-foot increase of elevation would increase costs by 2 percent — but, officials say, that would pay for itself over the next 60 years by avoiding future damage. (Grist/Numlock)
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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 from the Shelby County Public Library Genealogy Department.
2014: Over 1,000 people attended Rush-Shelby Energy’s’ annual meeting and member appreciation. The meeting had been moved to the headquarters office in Manilla after being at Indiana Grand for the previous decade.
2004: Members of the Shelbyville Elks Club continued to discuss selling the Country Club golf course. Membership in the Country Club had decreased about 100 since the prior year. Several competing courses had opened in the region and there were more banquet facilities, taking that business away as well.
1994: Shelby County Sheriff’s deputies received a report that a pickup truck, possibly with human body parts hanging out of it, was on I-74. The truck was stopped at the Fairland Road exit, and deputies found a man - intact - asleep in the bed of the truck.
Leslie Lux was crowned 1994 Shelby County Fair Queen. Robin Romine, the 1993 queen, handled crowning duties.
1984: Kroger Co. officials threatened to close the Shelbyville store and some or all of their other central Indiana locations if union workers rejected wage concessions in upcoming contract talks. Irvin Estes, manager of the Shelbyville Kroger store, wouldn’t comment on the wage talks.
1974: The Shelco Beverage slow-pitch team captured top honors in the first annual Shelbyville Holiday Tournament, hosted at Kennedy Park. Team members were Dave Hensley, Mike Hobbs, Curt Lockridge, Lester Spencer, Ron Richards, Steve Platt, Rod Dickmann, Terry Nicholson, Dave Ross, Bruce Campbell, Mike Light, Gary Hensley and Ron Bowman. Jack Judge was coach. Batboys were Chris Ross and Kyle Lockridge.
1964: Twenty-five local Boys Scouts with the Fire Bear District left for a Jamboree camp at Valley Forge, Penn. Those on the trip were Bart Dalton, David Dean, Bruce DeBaun, John Eiler, Dean Fleming, Barry Graves, Douglas Keith, Eugene Kiser Jr., William Mann, Tom Marshall, Terry McCall, Chris Hilt, Barry Shambach, Roger Shaw, Thomas Shull, Ronald Spaulding, John Tingle, Ted Tolan, Bruce Williams, Chris Williams, Ron Brokering, Randy Guise, Norman Jones, Gregg Lemasters, Mike Asher and David Champa. The group would also stay in West Virginia and Connecticut and visit the World Fair in New York.
1954: The county’s Seaman Pulvi-Mixer machine arrived. The new machine would cut up old road surface, grind it and relay it “in nearly new condition,” the salesman promised.
1944: Dr. Fred Inlow said rumors of prevalent infantile paralysis in the city and county were untrue. He also said there was “no foundation” for rumors that Porter Pool had been closed due to concerns about infantile paralysis.
1934: Robert Tross, a popular tenor on Louisville radio, performed at the new Palms Cafe on South Harrison St. Anita Deitzer, of Shelbyville, was piano accompanist.
1924: “After advertising for a wife, Shedrick Anders, of this city, will testify that advertising pays,” The Republican reported. Anders had advertised in the Republican that he “desired someone to make a home for him and his children and to aid in looking after his property.” The paper said Anders received several letters and visits to his home, including one from Anna Ewick, whom he married. The ceremony was performed by Mayor Lee Hoop in Anders’ Walker St. home. (Editor’s note: Records indicate the marriage did not last. Anders died in 1944 at age 74. He “lived alone” and “had been ill for some time,” the newspaper said. He is buried in Forest Hill next to his first wife, who died of tuberculosis in the early 1900s at age 37. Anna Ewick died in 1950 at age 76, and was only listed in the obituary as the “widow of Charles Ewick.” She had five children, Charles and Harold Ewick, Florence Sanford, Roberta Miller and Harry Brown, the latter a son by a previous marriage.)
1914: Much-needed rain fell throughout Shelby County, except in Marietta. Farmers from Marietta came into Shelbyville to complain.
OBITUARIES
None today.