Wisconsin natives Kate and Walter Laskowski moved to Shelbyville two years ago so he could take a job with International Paper, and now she’s branching out from the long arm machine quilting she has been doing out of her home. The Laskowskis hope to complete renovation of the space just east of their current location by late fall and begin offering classes and carrying knitting and crocheting supplies. The hotel has six king-studio suites that include sofa sleeper, wet bar, refrigerator and microwave. Sharp’s Tae Kwon Do now is concentrating its kicks, punches and blocks in the martial art school’s Hickory Point Mall headquarters, having closed a satellite school in Mount Zion. The Headliners bar at 2553 North 22nd Street in Decatur is up for sale and getting some notice. Sammons said he didn’t want to get into why the business had closed, just saying he had faced some changed circumstances that prompted him to sell.

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