Publisher

e-mail: bilmat@aol.com

Born in Finchville, Bill graduated from Shelbyville High School and the University of Michigan. After 10 years in the CIA, he bought The Shelby Sentinel in 1962 and thus launched his now 45-year career in newspaper and magazine publishing. He has been the president of both the Kentucky Press Association (1977) and Kentucky Weekly Newspaper Association (1975). He and his wife, Else, have four children and five grandchildren.

Managing Editor

e-mail: james@shelbycountylife.com

James spent five years as editor of The Sentinel-News, and was editor at several Kentucky newspapers before that, including nine years with The Clay City Times under Jerlene Rose, co-publisher of Shelby County Life's parent publication, Back Home In Kentucky.

He married the former Julie Prather in the summer of 2006, and is father of two, stepfather of three, and is a grandfather four times over.

He is a drummer and enjoys yard work, art and photography.

James is excited to be overseeing a publication about the best of Shelby County.

"There are so many stories here, and we'll be telling those stories to all of Shelby County."

Sales Associate

e-mail: marilynmjr@yahoo.com

Marilyn was an insurance agent with her father's agency, Logan Insurance, from 1976-93. She was vice president of Republic Bank in Bowling Green until 2000, then a mortgage officer. She has been a sales associate for Back Home In Kentucky since 2006.

Marilyn has two grown children. Son Bo lives in Florida, and daughter Meg is in Bowling Green.

Marilyn loves to read, walk and garden. She also likes being around people and enjoys seeing our great publications come together with interesting people, facts and places in Shelby County and Kentucky.

Sales Associate

e-mail: thomshiloh@aol.com

Harold, a retired broadcast and television executive, is well known as founder and lead singer of the internationally known folk/bluegrass group, The Cumberlands.

Sales Associate

e-mail: crazyhorse@elkcreek.net

Margaret has lived in Taylorsville with husband Bobby, who she met shortly after moving to Kentucky from Indiana, her home state. She shares her home with two boxers, Jasmine and Madison, a golden retriever, Sam, and a German shepherd, Harley. She shows American quarter horses on the AQHA circuit; she has three horses. She has a stepdaughter, Michelle, who lives in Cincinnati.

She also enjoys being a beach bum.

Office/Staff Writer

email: info@shelbycountylife.com

Stephanie Dunn learned about writing while serving as a photojournalist in the Army from 1987-92. She started her family at about that time, and has spent the time since then being a wife and rearing her children, Andy, 15, Alexander, 12, and Arianna, 7.  She and her husband, Scott, and the kids have lived in Waddy for seven years, with their cats and her husband's car collection.

Stephanie has lived most of her life in Shelby County, and likes to spend her spare time reading, baking (makes a mean bread pudding), and playing Scrabble on a cold winter's night with the kids. She also enjoys working part-time at the Family Activity Center at Clear Creek Park in Shelbyville.