Local News
Laurel Board of Education updating elementary schools
By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer
Expansion of Bush and Cold Hill elementary schools was discussed at Monday’s Laurel County Board of Education meeting.
Kevin Cheek of Sherman, Carter & Barnhardt Architects brought preliminary floor plans for the expansion and updating.
At Bush Elementary School on KY 80 east of London, eight new classrooms will be constructed, four on each end of the school’s wings.
Three classrooms will be added to the front of Cold Hill Elementary School on KY 192, west of London.
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning will be modernized at both schools, new basketball floors will be placed in the gymnasiums, and security entrances will be added at both schools.
In other school construction projects already underway, upgrading of North Laurel High, Colony Elementary, Keavy Elementary and Johnson Elementary are well underway and close to schedule, Cheek reported.
In other business, the board agreed at the request of the Local Planning Committee to change the priority of the new alternative/vocational school from category 1A to 2A in an effort to retain funding already available. It would put the development and construction into the next two years.
The board also approved the Family Resource Youth Centers’ continuation grant for 2011 and 2012.
It also approved two preschool special education positions and a district special education teacher position.
- Local News
-
-
Woman cut from car after wreck on Fifth St.
A 63-year-old woman was trapped in her SUV following a two-car crash Tuesday along Fifth Street Road east of its intersection with KY 1259.
-
Truck with satellite dishes tumbles on Tobacco Road
A tractor-trailer loaded with 40,000 pounds of satellite dishes turned over in east London Tuesday morning.
-
Dogs removed from home put down
Three dogs removed from a Highland Park home on March 11 were in such poor health that the Knox-Whitley Animal Shelter had to put the dogs down, according to police.
-
Man knocked out by falling tree
A North Corbin man was flown to University of Kentucky Medical Center Wednesday night after being struck by the snapping trunk of a falling tree.
-
Nighbert again advising Republicans on road plan
By Ronnie Ellis
CNHI News Writer
Bill Nighbert, the former secretary of the Transportation Cabinet (and former Williamsburg mayor) who was tried — and acquitted — on charges of bid-rigging, is again advising Senate Republicans on transportation matters. -
Stivers’ bill aims to curtail meth production
FRANKFORT (AP) — A Senate panel approved a bill Tuesday in the latest push to combat methamphetamine production in Kentucky - this time by blocking drug offenders from purchasing popular cold medicines with ingredients used to make the illicit drug.
-
Fiery crash ties up I-75 for three hours
Tuesday morning at about 2:20 a.m., the southbound lane of I-75 was blocked about three hours, when a tractor-rig reportedly collided with a slower moving Ford van in south Whitley County.
-
Whitley Fiscal Court pays for deputies’ cruisers, learns of spring cleanup events
The Whitley County Fiscal Court approved relatively routine measures, such as accepting road petitions and approving various agreements, during its monthly meeting Tuesday evening.
-
Churches, schools and 2-minute commutes among allure of small towns
Small towns can have a unique appeal that fosters economic development and provides good lives to residents.
-
Poetry Out Loud
A Knox Central freshman will be competing at the state finals of the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest today in Frankfort.
- More Local News Headlines
-
