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  • Woodland Elementary educates on military life

    With a large military family population, Woodland Elementary School is ensuring its students understand what goes into being a soldier.

    Woodland used the Veterans Day holiday as an opportunity for students to receive some firsthand knowledge about life as a soldier. Soldiers stationed at Fort Knox visited the classrooms earlier this month to answer their questions about training and deployment.

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  • Meyer returns to LTES after deployment

    After spending the school year seeing their new teacher on a computer screen, one little kindergartener let Andrea Meyer know he was glad to meet her “in real life person,” she recalled, chuckling. And Meyer is glad to finally to know them in “real life person” as well.

    Lt. Col. Meyer started her first day back at Lincoln Trail Elementary School on Nov. 1 after being deployed to Kuwait for 400 days. She deployed in Sept. 2011.

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  • HCS values test scores, keeps focus on improvement

    By NANNETTE JOHNSTON

    The test scores have been released and we are proud to have six schools whose scores earned proficiency status from the Kentucky Department of Education. That means their scores are in the state’s top 30 percent.

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  • Tumor makes CHHS student a better person

    By JESSIE KEY
    It’s a rare thing to meet someone who you know will have a lasting impact on your life and how you view the world. Few and far between are girls who see and accept life as it is and not through a hazy film of hopeless crushes and interminable teenage drama.

    Fourteen-year-old Jessica Smith, a freshman at Central Hardin High School, is one of these girls. 

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  • ‘Laudation!’

    By VINCE WHELAN

    So beautiful, the Temptress’s veil.
    Which shrouds the skin of imperfection!
    Which lolls against, as a cunning mirror,
    a disguise, we follow, in misdirection.

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  • A flair for the arts

    Students at Elizabethtown High School create a variety of work in Tammy Dye’s Art I and Art II classes.

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  • EHS senior sends blessings to soldiers

    An Elizabethtown High School senior lived up to her surname this fall by sending soldiers gifts from home.

    Jada Love, a senior at Elizabethtown High School, organized a “Bless a Soldier” campaign at her school, which encouraged people to bring items to send to military members overseas. Love brought the campaign to school after her church, Embry Chapel African Methodist Episcopcal Church, collected items from congregation members.

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  • Librarians' changing role: Technology broadens responsibilities

    The old view of the librarian is busted in the modern library.

    “We don’t just stamp books anymore,” said Jan O’Daniel, library media specialist at John Hardin High School.

    O’Daniel said she rarely touches books with all her other roles and has to make a conscious effort to cling to the role of someone who makes book recommendations to students because she wants to stay in contact with the students.

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  • LaRue aims for top 10 percent of Kentucky school districts

    By RON BENNINGFIELD

    A longstanding rule for organizations is that their objectives must be measurable and must have stretch—attainable, but requiring change and effort.

    With that tenet in mind, LaRue County Schools has set as its goal to be in the top 10 percent of Kentucky school districts.

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  • No more shushing: Library a place to get comfortable and get busy

    Contrary to what some expect, you’re not likely to be shushed in today’s libraries.

    While still a place to browse books, read and research, libraries often are transforming to have a community center sort of atmosphere.

    “I don’t think anyone whispers in the library anymore,” said Charlotte Bragdon, circulation manager at Hardin County Public Library in Elizabethtown. Patrons still are respectful of others’ need for quiet, but the atmosphere is much more relaxed than it once was, she added.

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