FRANKFORT—A new courthouse project that was almost derailed by community anger over the fate of Frankfort's old courthouse and its Good Shepherd Catholic Church now appears to be sailing forward as a model of compromise.
"We've had a lot of public input and now a lot of support for this particular design," Franklin County Judge Executive Ted Collins said of the $30-million proposal that literally embraces the 1835 courthouse designed by Gideon Shyrock, who also designed the old State Capitol a few blocks away.
