Auburn Middle School students attended the state KYA conference on November 12-14. Kentucky Youth Assembly (KYA) is a youth government program designed to give hands-on experience in Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches of the government. Students in Tina Owens’s class research, writ...

Adairville School is very busy engaging our students in activities that expose them to more than just the four walls of the school house. Adairville students collaborated to make a difference, one pull- tab at a time. Students have worked for a year to collect pull-tabs from aluminum cans to help ...

Once again, the time has arrived for my annual Cheapskate Editor’s Christmas Card List. This is the 20th edition of the list, which first appeared in print on Dec. 14, 1996. I’m sure this will be like the others in that as soon as it makes a public appearance, I’ll think of those t...

Many notable service learning projects are appreciated by those who are served but remain virtually invisible. Corinne Owens’ volunteer work will likely remain visible for many years to come. A 2015 graduate of Franklin-Simpson High School, Owens is a freshman at Southcentral Kentucky Communi...

Chandler’s fifth through eighth grade band students recently traveled to the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville to attend a free Young People’s Concert, performed by the Nashville Symphony. The theme of the performance was “Picture This: Musical Imagery,” which was s...

In the beginning to middle of the twentieth century, local farmers began to construct tobacco barns, stock barns, and their houses out of timber from the surrounding area. Though at the time they were using the wood for practical use, it now has become an unintentional driving force in a blossoming ...

Like the adorable character Ado Annie in the musical Oklahoma, Jenn Dana is a girl who just “Cain’t Say No.” For Jenn, though, it’s a good thing. In fact, it’s a wonderful thing for those who benefit from her generosity. “I have a hard time saying ‘no&rsquo...

In the tradition of the holiday season, each year, the Family Resource Center at Adairville School provides Thanksgiving meals for families in need around the community. In an effort that encompasses the entire school community, the Adairville School family works together to provide numerous familie...

Russellville native Shawn Sattazahn is not only a unique young man, but now he is officially a parachutist. That comes as no surprise, even though he was born with quadriplegic cerebral palsy. Despite those physical challenges, Shawn is a member of Western Kentucky University’s Military Scien...

Olmstead School held its annual walk for juvenile diabetes on December 4, 2015. Four hundred students in grades kindergarten through eighth walked the halls of the school for thirty minutes as part of awareness of the disease. “Our students are really supportive of this cause partly because th...

Each year the Lewisburg Family Resource Youth Service Center identifies families in need of food baskets for Thanksgiving. In the past the students have participated in a canned food drive, but last year the Family Resource Center decided to take a different approach and challenge classrooms to put ...

Adairville 7th grade students have a new appreciation for the old adage, “It’s all Greek to me.” After a nine-week interdisciplinary study of ancient Greek architecture, government, history, literature, and culture, their studies were brought to life with a field trip to the Parthe...