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The Jessamine County Board of Education waived the building-use fee for a church VBS program at a special meeting Monday night, terming the one-time decision as an exchange for “services previously rendered.” First Baptist Church will use East Jessamine Middle School on July 20 for one night of its VBS program. The church and its pastor, the Rev. Moses Radford, have been “specific, intentional and instrumental” in the creation and continuation of the district's CARE student-advocacy group, superintendent Lu Young told the board Monday.

Two Clark County Public Schools employees will be disciplined after they left a preschool student alone on the bus Wednesday morning. Superintendent Ed Musgrove called the incident "very unfortunate. " "We did have this morning a preschool child left in a bus for a short period of time while the buses were still coming in (to the bus garage)," Musgrove said Wednesday morning. "We have done an investigation, we've contacted the parent, and the employees involved in this incident will receive disciplinary action according to the policies and procedures of the school district.

Boyle County will have several auxiliary gates open to handle the large crowd expected for the football game against rival Danville at 7:30 p.m. Friday. In addition to the two main gates, Boyle will have two gates open for fans that park at the fairgrounds. They will be along the fence between the barn and the bus garage. For fans parking at Millennium Park, a gate near the Boyle tennis courts on that side of the school will be open. A sixth gate will be open behind the school near the locker room and band entrance.

BURGIN - Burgin Board of Education plans to accept bids on a new building project no earlier than Thanksgiving. Burgin Superintendent Richard Webb said Thursday that some of the parties involved may need more time and the bid letting could be after the holiday. The base project to be bid will include a new heating and air conditioning system and the remodeling of restrooms. If more money is available, the board may add two or more classrooms and expand a couple of existing classrooms.

After mulling it over for a few weeks, the Nicholasville City Commission has chosen not to make the intersection at Oak Street and Central Avenue an all-way stop. For several months, residents who live near the intersection have been asking the city commission to do something about what some have called, "a race track. " Last month, the city hired the Goshen, Ky.-based Jordan, Jones & Goulding Inc., to conduct a traffic study and submit suggestions. The company recommended making the intersection an all-way stop, but city leaders believe that will create a much larger problem by backing up traffic.

After disappearing Wednesday morning under dramatic circumstances, Gary W. Clark turned up in North Carolina early this morning. Clark County Sheriff Berl Perdue said Clark was located in Huntersville, N.C., near Charlotte, around 1:30 or 2 a.m. "I think he called a family member and he went to the police department," Perdue said. Perdue said Clark was not injured, and he is supposed to be back in Winchester today. Sheriff's deputies have not spoken with Clark yet and don't have a good idea of what happened.

HARRODSBURG - Over the last 11 days, an unknown suspect has taken Mercer County school buses for a joyride on at least three occasions and caused about $10,000 in damage to the buses, officials said. On June 9, someone stole a bus from the district's bus garage and apparently drove it around the parking lot, said Superintendent Dennis Davis. School officials immediately called Harrodsburg police and filed a report. Last week, between Thursday evening and Friday morning, an unknown person entered the garage and took the same school bus, police said.

Each day, more than 100 Jessamine County School buses hit the road carrying what Judge-Executive Wm. Neal Cassity called "the county's most precious commodity. " The drivers and monitors on those buses were honored by the school district with a breakfast at the bus garage Oct. 24 during its School Transportation Day as part of National Bus Transportation Week. Cassity, a former superintendent for the district, thanked the drivers for the job they did providing safe transportation for the thousands of students each day, and also for the help they provided for county government.

The Jessamine County school district is ready to sell two of its unused properties, and officials hope the money from the sales will be more than enough to perform necessary remodeling for changes next year. Money from the sales of the old bus garage property on East Maple Street and a property on Broadway Street could be used to prepare the old Jessamine Early Learning Village building in Wilmore for The Providence School, which will move there next year, Superintendent Lu Young told the Jessamine County Board of Education at its work session last Monday, Oct. 11. The other remodeling project on the district’s agenda for next year is the unrenovated portion of the current Jessamine Early Learning Village building.

The Jessamine County Board of Education waived the building-use fee for a church VBS program at a special meeting Monday night, terming the one-time decision as an exchange for “services previously rendered.” First Baptist Church will use East Jessamine Middle School on July 20 for one night of its VBS program. The church and its pastor, the Rev. Moses Radford, have been “specific, intentional and instrumental” in the creation and continuation of the district's CARE student-advocacy group, superintendent Lu Young told the board Monday.

I am a bus driver. I am the first face of the school system your child sees each day and I am the last face of the school system they see each evening. Often, I am the first smile your child has seen that day. I am a nurse. I am the one who puts a bandaid on the ouchie, feels for a fever,  passes tissues to the snotty nose and soothes the child who doesn't feel well. I am a referee. I break up the fights, calm the arguments, and separate the combatants. I am a maid. I clean up the trash, discarded papers, bad report cards and vomit that gets left on the bus. I scrape up the food and gum that is not allowed to be eaten on the bus but somehow is. I am a mechanic.

Sitting on the TV in Betty Curtis' living room is a framed poem called “A Bus Driver's Prayer.” “Please help me to watch all five mirrors, two dozen windows, eight gauges, six warning lights, six dozen faces, three lanes of traffic and to keep a third eye open for wobbling bicycles and daydreaming pedestrians,” the poem reads. When you've been driving a school bus for nearly 50 years, like Curtis, that poem takes on special significance. “After I got started on it, I enjoyed it, and I kept on driving,” Curtis said.

HARRODSBURG - Over the last 11 days, an unknown suspect has taken Mercer County school buses for a joyride on at least three occasions and caused about $10,000 in damage to the buses, officials said. On June 9, someone stole a bus from the district's bus garage and apparently drove it around the parking lot, said Superintendent Dennis Davis. School officials immediately called Harrodsburg police and filed a report. Last week, between Thursday evening and Friday morning, an unknown person entered the garage and took the same school bus, police said.

Kindergartners in Jessamine County will ride their own buses next year after sharing transportation with elementary schoolers this year. As full-day kindergarten was introduced for the first time in the fall, the Jessamine County school district implemented a “combination bus” system in which some Jessamine Early Learning Village kindergarten students rode transfer buses to and from elementary schools. District officials told the Jessamine County Board of Education at its May meeting that the system would not be needed next year and that kindergartners would ride dedicated buses.

The Jessamine County school district is ready to sell two of its unused properties, and officials hope the money from the sales will be more than enough to perform necessary remodeling for changes next year. Money from the sales of the old bus garage property on East Maple Street and a property on Broadway Street could be used to prepare the old Jessamine Early Learning Village building in Wilmore for The Providence School, which will move there next year, Superintendent Lu Young told the Jessamine County Board of Education at its work session last Monday, Oct. 11. The other remodeling project on the district’s agenda for next year is the unrenovated portion of the current Jessamine Early Learning Village building.

After disappearing Wednesday morning under dramatic circumstances, Gary W. Clark turned up in North Carolina early this morning. Clark County Sheriff Berl Perdue said Clark was located in Huntersville, N.C., near Charlotte, around 1:30 or 2 a.m. "I think he called a family member and he went to the police department," Perdue said. Perdue said Clark was not injured, and he is supposed to be back in Winchester today. Sheriff's deputies have not spoken with Clark yet and don't have a good idea of what happened.

Two Clark County Public Schools employees will be disciplined after they left a preschool student alone on the bus Wednesday morning. Superintendent Ed Musgrove called the incident "very unfortunate. " "We did have this morning a preschool child left in a bus for a short period of time while the buses were still coming in (to the bus garage)," Musgrove said Wednesday morning. "We have done an investigation, we've contacted the parent, and the employees involved in this incident will receive disciplinary action according to the policies and procedures of the school district.

Each day, more than 100 Jessamine County School buses hit the road carrying what Judge-Executive Wm. Neal Cassity called "the county's most precious commodity. " The drivers and monitors on those buses were honored by the school district with a breakfast at the bus garage Oct. 24 during its School Transportation Day as part of National Bus Transportation Week. Cassity, a former superintendent for the district, thanked the drivers for the job they did providing safe transportation for the thousands of students each day, and also for the help they provided for county government.