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The following is the fifth of six interviews recorded with Kristiaan Rawlings at Shelbyville High School last week as part of journalism and media final exams. This episode features Tim Barrick, who recently retired from his role as Architectural Chief Marketing Officer at RATIO Architects.
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A 17-year-old girl who said she was racing a truck on East State Road 44 wrecked while attempting to turn onto the I-74 ramp at 12:28 a.m. Saturday. The vehicle hydroplaned and went over the curb before striking a concrete barrier. After striking the barrier, the vehicle’s rear end apparently swung into the barrier, causing the rear driver side tire to come off. The windshield was also cracked extensively. The driver said she was not injured.
Shelby County Commissioners yesterday approved an agreement with Financial Solutions Group to help establish a Municipal Unit Strategic Task Force following recent changes to Indiana’s property tax and Local Option Income Tax laws. Under Senate Enrolled Act 1, municipalities with populations under 3,500, which includes Shelby County communities, will no longer be able to levy their own LOIT beginning in 2029 and instead must request a share of the county’s 2.9% income tax allocation. Counties are required to submit a report to the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance by the end of the year outlining plans for distributing LOIT revenue.
Street closures related to the St. Joseph Catholic Church renovation project began yesterday. East Hendricks Street will continue to run one-way east before curving south onto Center Street. Also, Center Street will now run one-way south, from Hendricks Street to W. Taylor Street. The closure is expected to remain in place permanently as part of the overall project, with the related right-of-way vacation process moving to the Shelbyville Common Council soon.
City engineer Tyler Comstock updated the Shelbyville Board of Public Works yesterday on the possibility that the Indiana Department of Transportation may close the I-74 exit ramp onto E. State Road 44 during the current construction project. “Apparently, there have been way too many accidents,” Comstock said, adding that he expected an update from INDOT soon regarding the matter.
The Board of Works ordered a carport at 530 4th Street to be razed. Building department officials said they had received complaints about the structure and determined it needed to be demolished. The home is owned by a corporation in Salem, Indiana, according to Shelby County GIS, but no representative of the owner responded to the city’s order to appear before the board regarding the matter.
New Shelbyville Police Officer Brooke Mohler was sworn-in yesterday by Mayor Scott Furgeson. From left, Police Merit Commission Chair Brad Ridgeway, Police Merit Commission member Bob Williams, Mohler, Chief of Police Louie Koch and Mayor Furgeson.
The Class 3A No. 9-ranked Shelbyville High School baseball team defeated Greenfield Central on Monday to win the HHC championship, the Bears’ first outright conference championship since 2014. The game marked 50 career wins for Coach Jacob Shively, who is 50-21 in his three years as head coach.
A Juneteenth Celebration will once again be held at Sunset Park, June 20, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event features free sandwiches, food trucks and live music.
The following couples applied for marriage licenses last week at the county clerk’s office: Sadie E. Allen, 21, and Ayden Weatherford, 23; Nicholas T. Anderson, 28, and Alyssa G. Pierce, 22; Meylin K.S. Pretell, 25, and Salvador R. Dominguez, 24; John S. Cawain, 59, and Melissa R. Kochan, 57; James R. Jewell, 74, and Mary A. Hall, 70; Lovens Maurepas, 34, and Deephlande J. Baptiste, 26; Emma L. Floyd, 21, and Joseph M. Pittak, 39.
Triton Central High School Lady Tigers basketball coach Bryan Graham announced his retirement from coaching. Graham has a 350-86 record over that tenure. His teams won 15 Shelby County titles, 12 conference titles, eight sectional championships and two regional championships.
Community Vacation Bible School, “Road Trip,” will be held June 22-26 in Fairland for children ages 4-12 who are potty-trained. The program will run daily from 11:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with drop-off at Fairland Grace Community Church and pick-up at Fairland Christian Church, and will include lunch, music, crafts, recreation and Bible activities. The event is supported by several local churches, with daily offerings benefiting the Triton Middle School Fellowship of Christian Athletes. For more information, contact Sonya Lord-Chamberlain at 317-370-2341 or slor1964@gmail.com, or Janet Wallace at 317-371-5293 or jfwallace58@gmail.com. Registration is available at Community VBS Registration.
Editor’s note: Yesterday’s Memorial Day program photos were taken by Jack Boyce.
HOOSIER NEWS: The Indianapolis 500 set another purse record this year, with winner Felix Rosenqvist earning $4.34 million from a total purse of $30.91 million, according to Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It marked the fifth consecutive year of record-breaking payouts, while the average IndyCar driver earned $936,500, up significantly from last year’s average of $596,500. IMS President Doug Boles also highlighted back-to-back grandstand sellouts and the race’s record number of lead changes. Mick Schumacher was named Rookie of the Year and earned a $50,000 bonus as part of his $218,800 total payout. (IBJ)
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This Day in Shelby County History
Local headlines reported on or around this date in Shelby County history. Selections are curated by The Addison Times from Shelby County Public Library Genealogy Department materials.
2016: Enrollment opened at The Excel Center on N. Harrison Street. The Goodwill project was designed to open educational opportunities for adults.
2006: More than 350 people gathered on the courthouse lawn for the Shelby County Memorial Day program. Gene Hopkins, a retired Shelbyville High School teacher, served as the keynote speaker. He talked about the history of Memorial Day since Decoration Day, the original name for the observance, was held in 1867.
1996: The first 10 lots of a proposed subdivision on McKay Road were approved for the Southern Trace development.
1986: Mayor Dan Theobald said City Hall was receiving regular calls from those looking for a taxi service. Shelby Cab Co. had gone out of business a few weeks prior.
1976: Members of the special education class at Hendricks Elementary celebrated the end of a successful school year with a pastry and a cake baked in the shape of two locomotives. The class was taught by Marsha McRoberts.
The Southwestern Student Council held an End-of-School dance. Tammy Sigman and Gary McClintic were crowned queen and king scarecrow at the dance.
1966: Fern and Walker Carll ran a newspaper ad noting that the Tastee Freez would close at 6 p.m. “to attend graduation as promised 12 years ago.”
Robins TV & Appliance announced plans to open a new retail store in the Belaire Shopping Center. The business was established in 1933 by Dave Robins, who still headed the firm. It was located originally on S. Harrison Street and later moved to E. Broadway, where it was located for two years before moving in 1945 to Boggstown Road.
1956: Barriers were erected by police to prevent traffic from going north on water-covered U.S. 421. Flooding Snail Creek was threatening to undermine the highway three miles north of Shelbyville. Officers returned later because many people were driving around the barricade.
1946: Bread was becoming a scarcity on grocery and bakery shelves throughout Shelby County given cutbacks in flour supplies. U.S. officials said to expect further reductions, including shortages of soap.
1936: The Shelbyville school board approved the Shelbyville Ministerial Association to use the Thomas A. Hendricks school for conducting the annual daily Vacation Bible School.
Will Little, 748 S. Harrison St., invited the public to stop by and see the 150 Oriental poppies in bloom at his home.
1926: Lorena Havens was the only woman in Shelbyville connected with a bank, The Republican reported. She and her husband, Melvin Havens, were assistant cashiers at First National Bank.
City parks would be staffed until 10 p.m., members of the parks board said.
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Janet Neville Coffey, 91 years old, of Marietta, Indiana, passed away Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at Indiana Masonic Home. Born Janet Anne Kramer on Jan. 3, 1935, in Shelbyville, Indiana, to Joseph Cooper Kramer and Celeste Pearl (Shadday) Kramer, their third child. She was raised by her mother and stepfather, Raymond McDonald, along with three more brothers and one sister.
She graduated from Clarksburg High School (now North Decatur) in 1953 and married her high school sweetheart, William Keith Neville, in Greensburg, Indiana, on June 13, 1953. They had 20 wonderful years together and were blessed with five children before he preceded her in death on Oct. 30, 1973. On March 19, 1976, Janet married Chester Leroy Coffey, who helped raise her youngest three children and also a grandson, Jonathan Saunders, for 10 years before Chester preceded her in death on Sept. 17, 1993.
She was a past member of the Bengal Christian Church and the Marietta Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary. She assisted four of her young children with delivering the Shelbyville News as well as the Indianapolis News newspapers throughout Marietta, Indiana, and the Neville children hold the record for the longest time delivering newspapers, from 1964 to 1990, 26 years. She also worked at Western Supermarket from 1989 through 1992 as a cashier, service center manager and also as a trainer for new cashiers.
She always enjoyed camping at Ceraland and also Brown County State Park, where she enjoyed riding her moped throughout the park. She also enjoyed attending shows at the Little Nashville Opry; going to truck pulls, yard sales and euchre parties; and working at the Marietta Volunteer Fire Department’s annual fish fry. Janet’s favorite singers were Daniel O’Donnell and Mary Duff, Red Sovine, Loretta Lynn and the Statler Brothers. She also enjoyed watching TV, especially judge shows.
Besides raising five children of her own, she and Mr. Neville took in two foster children, a 3-year-old girl for six months, and later a 16-year-old girl for 16 months. She and Mr. Coffey took in her grandson for 10 years while his parents served in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Survivors include son Bill Neville (wife Trish) of Edinburgh, Indiana; daughters Audrey Carol Caffee (late husband Myron) of Shelbyville, Indiana, and Teresa Diane Hendershott of Greensburg, Indiana; her son-in-law, Jeffrey Saunders (wife Sue) of Okeechobee, Florida; one brother, Robert H. McDonald (wife Cathy) of North Vernon, Indiana; one sister, Carolyn Sue Berkemeier (husband Richard) of Greensburg, Indiana; and sister-in-law Pauline McDonald of Greensburg, Indiana. Additionally, she is survived by five grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her two husbands, William Neville and Chester Coffey; her father, Joseph Kramer; her mother, Celeste McDonald Scheidler; two stepfathers, Raymond McDonald and Richard Scheidler; a stepmother, Elizabeth Kramer; sister Leona Marie (Kramer) Bennett; brothers Richard Joseph Kramer, James Eugene McDonald and Harvey E. McDonald; and her son, Darrell Wayne Neville, daughter Sharon Lynn Boggess, and son-in-law Myron Caffee. She was also preceded in death by her beloved dogs Penny, Cocoa and Smiley.
Visitation will be Saturday, May 30, 2026, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Murphy-Parks Funeral Service, 703 S. Harrison St., Shelbyville, Indiana 46176. A graveside service will follow at 1:30 p.m. in Miller Cemetery. Funeral directors Greg Parks, Sheila Parks and Stuart Parks are honored to serve Janet’s family. Online condolences may be shared at www.murphyparks.com.
Michael W. Graham, 59, of Plainfield, passed away on Friday, May 22, 2026, at his home. He was born October 31, 1966, in Shelbyville, the son of William G. Graham and Lucille (Nash) Graham Cockerham. Mike is survived by his mother, Lucille and husband, Chester, of Shelbyville; daughters, Hayley Vazquez and husband, Christian, of Greenwood, and Destiny Day and husband, John, of Martinsville; grandson, Link; sisters, Carolyn Crawley of Shelbyville, and Rebecca King and husband, Steven, of Rushville; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father; and sister, Stacie Lynn Hignite.
In 1984, Mike graduated from Shelbyville High School, he then attended Ivy Tech. He was a mechanic. Mike loved to spend time with his grandson.
Inurnment will be at 2 p.m., Friday, May 29, 2026, at Forest Hill Cemetery, 704 Morris Ave. in Shelbyville. Services have been entrusted to Freeman Family Funeral Homes and Crematory, 819 S. Harrison St. in Shelbyville. Online condolences may be shared with Mike’s family at www.freemanfamilyfuneralhomes.com.