At Thursday night’s Grayson County School Board meeting held at Lawler Elementary School, several students were recognized for academic achievement, a principal announced his retirement and a birthday was celebrated.
Lawler students recognized
Lawler Principal Alicia Brooks recognized about 60 students, who were present at the meeting, as high achievers in last year’s KPREP testing, as each student scored either distinguished or proficient.
Brooks said in total, just short of 200 Lawler students scored distinguished or proficient on the state-wide test last year.
Scholarship winners
Two Grayson County High School seniors have been bestowed $1,000 scholarships from the school board as first generation college students from their respective families.
Emery Crume will attend Kentucky Wesleyan College and major in education with a goal of returning to Grayson County to teach at the middle school. Crume will also run cross country and track at KWC, as she inked a scholarship offer in November of last year.
Jonathan Nelson, who previously received a $2,500 First Degree scholarship, awarded by the Kentucky School Boards Association, will also receive a $1,000 scholarship from the school board for being the first person in his family to attend college.
Nelson will attend Centre College to pursue a degree in biology, as he plans to then attend medical school at the University of Kentucky.
Meredith retiring
George Meredith, principal at Caneyville Elementary School for the last six years, is retiring effective June 30. Meredith has been an educator for 31 years, with all but two of those years spent in Grayson County.
Birthday Boy
In celebration of Superintendent Doug Robinson’s birthday, the crowd gathered at the meeting sang Happy Birthday to Robinson, as he turned an unusual shade of red. Although Robinson said he is now 29, further investigation revealed the superintendent is in reality 44-years-old.
And in continuing with a birthday tradition at Lawler, Robinson was tossed and caught a frisbee with much aplomb.
Business meeting
In the business portion of the meeting, Robinson said he and board attorney David Vickery have been discussing possibly selling several school district-owned properties around the county. While no details are available at this time, at least one of the properties is an old school house.
Vickery is researching ownership records to “make sure we give a good title to the buyer.”
K105 will have more information on this story as it become available.
(Headline photo: Jonathan Nelson, Emery Crume)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com or 270-259-6000
