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First-grade students from Strode Station Elementary School haunted the halls and offices of the Clark County Board of Education building on Friday looking for candy during a trick-or-treat outing. Collecting their candy bounty from Lori Clark were Trevor Morris, right, dressed as a skeleton, and Logan Gaines, who was dressed as a pirate.

STANFORD - The name of the game in the Lincoln County school system is the pre-school shuffle. With no additional classroom trailers in the future of Stanford Elementary to help with overcrowding, the school is scrambling for space for students next year. Still awaiting the passage of a facilities plan to alleviate overcrowding at both Stanford and Hustonville elementaries by building a sixth-grade center, Lincoln County Board of Education voted Thursday to move four preschool classes to the central office to free one classroom at Stanford in the interim.

Despite posting the position statewide, Boyle County schools did not have to look very far to fill a key central office spot. On Wednesday, the system named Boyle County Middle School Principal Mike Lafavers as the new assistant superintendent under school chief Steve Burkich. Lafavers takes over for the departing Tish Putty, who left the district in June to become superintendent of Scott County schools. Lafavers will begin at central office on Monday. According to Burkich, the open position was posted with the Kentucky Department of Education and listed on a Kentucky search service available across the state.

Mercer County Schools staff and parents received a disturbing call Wednesday from the school system's automated One Call notification system regarding an equally upsetting message left for a Central Office employee. The One Call message said that a central office employee received an answering machine message Tuesday of a song being played. It said the lyrics could "be interpreted many different ways," that no direct threats were made to staff or students and that the district is taking "extra precautionary measures to ensure the safety of all students.

STANFORD - Lincoln County High School Principal Ty Howard has resigned to take a new position created at the central office. Howard, who has been principal since 2001, applied immediately for the job that requires him to coordinate federal programs and work on professional development in the district. The purpose of the position, which was posted Friday, is to try to raise test scores within the two-year deadline set by the state board of education. "It was eventually something I wanted to do," Howard said.

Mercer County Board of Education will have a special meeting at 12:15 p.m. Friday at the central office to approve a new mascot for the high school for the coming school year.

MEETINGS Casey County Board of Education - 7 p.m. Thursday at the central office for a special meeting to discuss the tax rate and a field trip.

Meeting Mercer County Board of Education - 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the central office. The board will review the architect's plan for layout of new Mercer County Senior High School grounds; tour the field house; and discuss public participation in open meetings.

Mercer County Board of Education will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the central office. Agenda includes student and community recognition, invoices, personnel action, facility use, heating and air conditioning bid results, emergency substitute teachers, use of buses and drivers by the state fish and wildlife department, fuel vendors and job descriptions.

Meetings Boyle County Middle School Site-Based Decision-Making council - 3:45 p.m. Monday at the middle school. Danville Board of Education - 6 p.m. Monday at the central office for a work session meeting. Perryville City Council - 5:30 p.m. Monday at the community center. Agenda for the special-called meeting is a discussion over easements on the historic properties.

The Blue Grass Community Action Partnership has completed their application for CSBG funding for SFY '14. The application will be available for review at our Central Office located at 111 Professional Court, Frankfort, KY after April 12, 2013. If you have questions, please call 502-695-4290, ext. 240.

BOE special meeting Wednesday night The Clark County Board of Education will hold a special called meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Central Office building. Following the meeting, the superintendent screening committee will meet. Winchester GTE retirees to meet Winchester GTE/Sylvania/Osram retirees will meet for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Jade Garden in Kroger Plaza. All retirees and former employees at the Winchester plant are welcome for lunch. WMU meeting canceled Thursday's Winchester Municipal Utilities Commission meeting has been cancelled.

STANFORD - Lincoln County Superintendent Karen Hatter has said she looked at the potential for cutting central office positions while considering which budget cuts to recommend, but found that the central office was not overstaffed. An analysis by The Interior Journal of district data profiles from the Legislative Research Commission found no evidence contradicting Hatter's assessment. Hatter told board members earlier in March she contacted other area districts about the size of their central office staffs and determined Lincoln County's central office has an appropriate level of staffing.

The Wimore Elementary School site-based decision-making (SBDM) council will hold special-called meetings at 3 p.m. March 19 at Wilmore Elementary School and at 3 p.m. March 26 and 12:45 p.m. March 27 at central office at the Royse Administration Building. Each meeting will include a closed session for the purpose of principal selection and approval of a candidate, if necessary. Wilmore Elementary School is located at 150 Campground Lane in Wilmore; the Royse Administration Building is located at 871 Wilmore Road in Nicholasville.