Monday, June 23, 2025
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Demolition Set to Begin
Pre-demolition work is underway on three structures facing the first block of W. Broadway. Work will continue this week, starting with the former Adams Glass building on the alley and progress eastward. (The Strand - and the buildings between The Strand and the white building facing W. Broadway - will remain.) | photos by JOHN WALKER
CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS
(Above) The “roundabout” takes shape at the intersection of McKay Road and Miller Street, and (below) Mathies Landscaping fills in the newly created median on N. Harrison/N. Riley Hwy. with trees and plants. | photos by JOHN WALKER
County Plan Commission Preview
The Shelby County Plan Commission will meet tomorrow to consider the following petitions:
A request from Natalie Price to rezone 13.2 acres at 5386 W 1100 N, Fountaintown, from Conservation Agricultural to Agricultural to allow for a two-lot simple subdivision. The commission will also hear a related request to create a new 13.2-acre single family building lot and a 26.8 acre lot that includes an existing single family residence.
A request from Thomas Sundvall to rezone 10 acres at 4141 E 400 N, Shelbyville, from Conservation Agricultural to Agricultural to allow for a two-lot simple subdivision. The commission will also hear a related request to create a new 10-acre single family building lot and a 10.7-acre lot that includes an existing single-family residence.
A request from Huber Trust (Clinton Huber) to rezone 2.1 acres near 6780 N 100 W, Shelbyville, from Conservation Agricultural to Residential Estate to allow for a one-lot simple subdivision. The commission will also hear a related request to create a new 2.1-acre, single family building lot.
The Plan Commission will also review a project site plan for 9295 N. Frontage Road, Fairland, owned by HIS Constructors, which was rezoned for industrial use in 2020. The property owner has completed the site work, other than installing a fence or mound along the property lines adjoining properties in residential zoning districts. The property, however, includes heavily wooded areas, and the owner has committed to preserving trees within the wooded areas and planting trees within the gaps along the property line in lieu of removing existing trees to install a fence or mound. The Board of Zoning Appeals previously approved a variance from the fence/mound requirement, and the Plan Commission needs to approve the site plan.
The Plan Commission meets in the Courthouse Annex at 7 p.m., Tuesday.
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NOTEBOOK:
HOOSIER NEWS: Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has seen a significant surge in popularity over the past week after she was ejected from a game for committing a flagrant 2 foul on Sun player Jacy Sheldon, who had previously poked Fever star Caitlin Clark in the eye. Cunningham’s jersey has since sold out in the Fever team store, she gained 300,000 followers on Instagram and jumped from 300,000 to over 1.3 million followers on TikTok. She posted a video playing into what happened on Tuesday, lip-syncing “Can't keep my hands to myself / I mean I could, but why would I want to?” from the song “Hands to Myself” by Selena Gomez on Friday, with the caption “It's a joke... the sound was too fitting!” (Indiana Public Media)
NATIONAL NEWS: Seventy-six percent of respondents in a nationwide survey supported bike lanes in their local area, and just 15 percent opposed. Altogether, 33 percent of respondents wanted more bike lanes in their local area, and 37 percent are satisfied with the current number of bike lanes. Only nine percent desired fewer bike lanes. (YouGov/Numlock)
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SHS Courier Archive Highlights
April 11, 1951, Part II
A group of students brought a small fish that looked like “a guppie with wings” to Miss McDonald’s lab. No one, including faculty members, was able to identify it. “How the heck should we know when our chief biologists can’t even tab the cute little creature?” Students had instead been calling it “The Thing.”
Later in the edition was the breaking news that “The Thing” was a “fairy shrimp.” The Courier continued, “All we need to know now is what the reason for its funny little gills being green.”
Following a chicken dinner in the school cafeteria, Hi-Y members and their dads enjoyed a program in the library. Fred Gahimer opened the program, and Tony Jester welcomed the guests. The Boys Glee Club and a trio consisting of Carol Lucas, Gahimer and Porter performed. The Home Economics classes provided individual cherry pies topped with whipped cream for attendees.
Superintendent W.F. Loper dropped in unexpectedly on several classes. While visiting Miss Ashby’s shorthand class, he advised the girls of the “three greatest fundamentals” of school work: spelling, punctuation and correct verb usage. “Some night when it’s raining and the date doesn’t come, get out your old grammar book and study these fundamentals,” he advised.
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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: The Shelbyville Central Schools board approved hiring Sally Vaught as the new Loper Elementary principal.
1995: Billy Keller, a member of three American Basketball Association championship teams with the Indiana Pacers in the 1970s spoke at the Self Shelbyville Boys Club/Girls Inc. golf outing at the Elks Blue River Country Club. Keller had been a member of the 1965 Indianapolis Washington High School state championship team, was named Mr. Basketball and later played in the NCAA championship game against UCLA as a Purdue Boilermaker. The winners of the golf outing were Bob Claxton, Scott Furgeson, Doug Drake and Jack Atwood.
1985: Rosie Black, touted as the “world’s greatest woman softball player,” announced she would bring her traveling softball team to Shelbyville for an exhibition game at Blue River Park on Rushville Road. Black had played professionally for 21 years, and was said to throw as hard as 100 miles per hour. She had appeared on a number of television programs, including Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show and Good Morning America. She had also starred in a softball commercial.
1975: Twenty-one wooden trash containers were added to parking meters on Public Square. Dee Bonner and Jimmy Adams had headed up the project, sponsored by the Retail Merchants of Downtown.
1965: Indiana Bell started an equipment expansion in its Shelbyville location, which paved the way for an upgrading of party line service. The project would also make available 300 additional telephone numbers to keep pace with growth.
1955: Jack Hasecuster, manager at Sargent’s Paint and Wallpaper, 6 Public Square, announced plans to move the business to 103 N. Harrison St., previously the REMC headquarters, to allow Mrs. Goodman to use the Public Square space for a department store. REMC had built a new building in the 1500 block of S. Harrison St.
1945: Second Baptist Church members burned the mortgage to the church parsonage, which had recently been paid off.
Federal officials said Shelby County should again expect prisoners of war to help during canning season. In 1944, between 100 and 200 war prisoners had been stationed in Morristown at a constructed camp and employed by canneries in the northern half of Shelby County. Plants in the southern part of the county had used POWs from Camp Atterbury.
1935: Although new state legislation allowed communities to provide taxpayer-funded textbooks to all students, few districts were petitioning to do so. The petition had to be signed by at least 51 percent of registered voters in a school district, but no movement had started in Shelbyville to follow through.
1925: The local Big Four train offered 65-cent round trip excursions to Indianapolis for the afternoon baseball game against Kansas City. The train would leave Shelbyville at 9:05 a.m. and leave Indy at 7 p.m.
1915: The Republican newspaper published a letter from John Debaun, ex-assessor of Hendricks Township, who said he was weary of his party. “There have been several persons wanting to find out how I voted in the last election. I voted the Republican ticket,” he said in a letter to the paper, which he encouraged them to publish.
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