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Boyle County Middle School delegation receives top honor at United Nations Assembly
During the East Kentucky United Nations Assembly, Boyle County Middle School’s 67-member delegation was selected for the best/most outstanding delegation, the top award of the conference, as well as individual students bringing home various other...
Tags: YMCA, Samoa, France, Middle Schools, Education
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St. Agatha Academy students argue case for Palestinian's water rights
For some St. Agatha Academy students, a visit to a mock United Nations has turned into an opportunity to make a real difference to the world. “We just thought we could participate in a mock UN assembly and talk about problems in the world, and...
Tags: Water Supply, YMCA, Palestine, Israel, Education
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News briefs for March 19
Woodlawn Elementary Dinner Theatre set for Friday Woodlawn Elementary School will present its fourth annual dinner theater, titled “We are the World,” at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Boyle County High School. The event will feature musical performances...
Tags: Libraries, Elementary Schools, Yams, Wii, Education
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From Our Files for Feb. 17
100 YEARS AGO 1913 Two ladies came to Danville this week from Indiana and had the body of the man who was recently found dead on the Cincinnati Southern Railway exhumed. One of the ladies had lost her husband and reached the conclusion that the man...
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Boyle Y-Club earns awards at state assembly
Students from Boyle County Middle School’s Y- Club were recognized before the Board of Education on Thursday night for their placement at the 2012 Kentucky Youth Assembly held in Louisville. The 41-student club attended KYA in November and came...Tags: YMCA, Teaching and Learning, Students, Politics, Executive Branch
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Obama is in a political pickle
President Obama is in a pickle. But it’s a pickle of his own making. Obama has made it known he wants United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice to replace the departing Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Rice has been a long-time supporter and...Tags: Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Pickles, White House
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50 years ago: Dec. 1, 2012
Dec. 1, 1962 UNITED¿NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) — U Thant embarked today on a four-year term as secretary-general of the United Nations in a considerably stronger position than he has had as the stop-gap replacement for Dag Hammerskjold. Plans for the...
Tags: High Schools, Schools
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GUEST COLUMN: What goes around, comes around
Contributing WriterI was young when I first heard “what goes around comes around,” and I have no memory of who said it. But it stuck in my mind. After the last four years of economic disaster, Americans are rubbing the election sleep from their eyes, and the...Tags: Edward Clark, Labor Markets, Russia, Bankruptcy
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Can't respect a president who lies
At 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 11, at the American Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, American Ambassador Chris Stevens walked the visiting Turkish counsel to the gates of the compound. At 9:40 p.m. came a coordinated terrorist attack against the compound with...Tags: American Red Cross, Military Equipment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Christopher Stevens, Hamas
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21st Century funds provide plethora of student activities at Lincoln schools
ben@theinteriorjournal.comSTANFORD — It's a Wednesday afternoon at 3:45 p.m. and most people have left school for the day. But in the cafeteria and gymnasium at the McGuffey Sixth-Grade Center, several clusters of middle- and high-school students are just getting started...Tags: Science and Technology, Entertainment, Music, Weather Radar, Teaching and Learning
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Youth Salute: July 17, 2012
The following students were among the 37 Ceorge Rogers Clark juniors who were selected to the National Council on Youth Leadership Youth Salute: Kailey Faris Dailey is a member of many school organizations. She is a varsity cheerleader, member of the...
Tags: The Happiest News!, University of Kentucky, Teaching and Learning, Special Olympics, Fellowship of Christian Athletes
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Obituary: Betty Miller
LANCASTER — Betty June Howard Miller, 73, of Meadowlark Drive, passed away Saturday, July 28, 2012, at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center in Danville, Ky. She was a daughter of the late Ollie Carpenter Howard and Lydia Newby Howard. Betty...
Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief, Elementary Schools, Education, Separation of Church and State
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