Merry CHRISTmas!!

We here at TSS would like to extend our warmest Christmas wishes to you and yours this holiday season. Don't forget the GIVER of all gifts!

Twas' the night before Christmas...

Don't forget to set out the milk & cookies.

New Bloggers!

Dear Readers....

TSS is thrilled to announce the opening of a brand new cyberblog! Please join us in welcoming Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Smith to the blogsphere!

SBHC Blog

TSS is pleased to announce the unveiling of the new 

Shelbyville Bible Holiness Church "beta blog". 

Kudos to Trint Castle for getting it up and running.

Edna Parker, 1893-2008

World's most senior citizen, 115, dies peacefully at her Shelbyville home.

More News

click here for Edna Parker's Obituary

November 4, 2008

It's November 4th. Go Vote!

Home....Sweet Home!

There's nothing quite like being in a foreign country. Foreign food, foreign people, foreign money, foreign language, foreign cities, foreign customs, foreign culture, just a totally "foreign" feeling (if you read what i'm saying!). However....there is nothing quite like beign back home again in Indiana!! Ahhh....so much I could say of the land "South of the Border" but as they say: "a pictures worth 1000 words". Check out my Mexico Photo Album as well as my Oacaxa Photo Album. Also Be sure to check out the Shelbyville Hispanic Ministry blog for more info.

Hola!

Beloved Readers,

The Shelbyville Shouter is currently deployed in Mexico. Due to his current geographical location, updates will be rare. Cherish them. Today is EL Grito aqui en Mexico. Viva Mexico!!
Amor y Paz

3 more days.....

Wow! It hardly seems possible that in three short days...Nathan Joel Smith & Laura Beth VonBokern.......*sniff*......shall be wed! How time flies!!

Condolences can be sent to Laura via their website. Check it out!

Chapter Ended

It is with great joy and, yet might i add, i twinge of sadness, that i inform you of yet another chapter closed in my young life. Alas, my 10+ year tenure as student prodigy of the Mistress Mildred Hamilton has come to an end today. With bitter-sweet memories i write this eulogy of my years as an indentured servant. As it is in every life, every good thing must come to an end. Who knows, maybe i shall now have more time to devote to the Shouter? Only time will tell. But until then, i shall enjoy my "retirement" and, alas...my FREEDOM!

Shelbyville, world lose a tall treasure

Shelby County's own Sandy Allen, 53, considered the tallest woman in the world for most of her life, died at 2:55 a.m. Wednesday at Heritage House Convalescent Center in Shelbyville.

The world's tallest woman was laid to rest Monday. Hundreds paid their last respects to Sandy Allen, who died Wednesday from a recurring blood infection at the age of 53.

With the death of Sandy Allen on Wednesday, Shelbyville no longer can claim that the tallest woman in the world resides here, and the city has also lost one of its most colorful and interesting residents.
Allen with world's oldest person, Edna Parker, also of Shelbyville

Obituary

Eulogy

Read Sandy's Story.

Isaac Stephen Smith

I'm an uncle! WOW!

Isaac Stephen Smith was born around 11 PM on June 30, 2008. 19 inches long and 8 pounds 3 ounces.

His good looks and fine qualitys hail from his uncle Ben. ;)

Read More

Clinton Visits Shelbyville

The solitude of the lazy Sunday afternoon was interrupted yesterday as Bill Clinton paid a little visit to our town yesterday.


Good ol' Billy, first-man wannabee. He'll show them how to decorate the white house!

Read more about Clinton's Shelbyville stop.

IHC

Get live audio streaming of services @ the IHC website.

Welcome Spivey Perspective!

TSS would like to extend our warmest welcome to....
...the Spivey Perspective!

Welcome to the world of blogdom!

check em' out. They're nice folk......most of the time ;)

CON- Dropout Nation

Then again.....Shelbytucky still has a long way to go...........

While Shelbyville's appearance in some magazines may be something to be proud of; it's debut in another may make you think twice.

check it out: Dropout Nation

This is a classic description found in the article:

Shelbyville, a town of almost 18,000 located on the outer fringe of the "doughnut" counties that ring Indianapolis, seems an unlikely battleground in the war on dropouts. i like this part here... Despite a few oddities--it's home to both the oldest living Hoosier and the world's tallest woman--it is an otherwise pleasantly unremarkable town. ** now home to the world's oldest living human

The article goes on to describe life in rural Shelbyville:

The capital is just a short drive away, but miles of rust-colored farmland, mainly cornfields waiting for seed, give the area a rural tinge. Most people live in single-family houses with yards and fences. Not many of them are very well off, but there's little acute poverty, as a gaggle of automotive and other factories has given the town a steady supply of well-paying jobs. Violent crime is rare, and the town is pervaded by a throwback decency. People wave at one another from their cars on Budd Street. They chitchat in the aisles of Mickey's T-Mart grocery store.

PRO- Home safe Home

Shelbytucky ain't such a bad place to live these days.....

Magazine says Shelby Co. one of nation’s safest

According to Progressive Farmer magazine, Shelby County ranked No. 8 on a top-10 list of "lowest crime rate" communities in the Midwest.


1. Carroll County Ohio
2. Ralls County Missouri
3. Tipton County Tennessee
4. Edwards County Illinois
5. Bibb County Alabama
6. Tipton County Indiana
7. Johnson County Illinois
*8. Shelby County Indiana
9. Lincoln County South Dakota
10. Madison County Georgia

Ironically, this headline was found alongside the following:


Meanwhile, Shelby's jail population rising

In seven years, the jail went from having 170 inmates (2000) to having a total of 2,635 inmates (2007).

hey, at least they're keepin' them off the streets!

BREAKING NEWS!!

Dear concerned, faithful, impatient readers: Greetings!

As a few of you may have noticed, over the past few days...maybe months.....ok years, the Shelbyville Shouter has not been as consistent as it perhaps could have been. Various factors attributed to this inconvenience, the main one being a severe financial deficiency causing us to implement severe layoffs of many of our personnel. However, all this has changed. A new day has dawned for The Shelbyville Shouter! No more of this "hit-n-miss" stuff. No more "old news". No more wondering if TSS will post today. No, no my dear readers! The Shelbyville Shouter has finally experienced it's revolution. Its reawakening. Its rebirth. Its own cyber-renaissance if you will. Yes my friends, This truly is a day to rejoice! Spread the word! Tell all your amigos that the Shelbyville Shouter has come back to life!!!!












HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY!!!!










(gotcha!!)

For Whom the Wedding Bells Toll.........

It's official!

After seven years in the making, the day has finally arrived! Nathan Smith & Laura VonBokern will begin their journey together as of September 5, 2008!
Congratulations Nathan & Laura!

~From all of us here at TSS~

Happy New Year!

A new beggining.....A Fresh Start....

Happy New Year from all of us here at TSS!