

Cossairt Florist to celebrate 125 years
“We’ve been in flowers an awful long time.” The Cossairt Florist will celebrate its 125th anniversary this summer. Shop owner and fourth-generation florist Jim Cossairt retold the history of the shop. “After my great-grandparents moved to Shelbyville, we had a greenhouse,” Cossairt said. “Great-Grandpa was a truck farmer. He would grow vegetables primarily and he would start these in his greenhouse, and then he would sell these off of a horse-drawn cart around town.” The Coss


G&G Investigation moves into first office
For George Gobel, investigation is intriguing. “If I can solve a case, the high that I get from it is so rewarding,” he explained. So he started G&G Investigation. As Shelbyville’s only licensed private investigator (PI), Gobel works to find evidence that helps solve missing person cases, homicides, runaways, theft, fraud and many other items. “We do a thing called process service, and process service is if an attorney or individual would call us for paperwork,” he said. “Lik


Aktion Club donates supplies, cash to Shelbyville special ed students
Shane Roell, Past-President of the Shelbyville VC Aktion Club, recently presented a donation of school supplies and funds to benefit special education students in the Shelbyville Central Schools system. The members of the Aktion Club have not been meeting regularly since March of last year, since the Covid-19 pandemic first hit Shelbyville. However, the club still supports several local charities and hopes to start meeting later this year. The donation Roell made to special e