Parenting

In December 2011, Mercer County mother Sandra Baker was called to school to retrieve her son, Christopher, after the school determined he was out of control.  When she arrived, Baker told reporters later, she found her son in a large, green gym bag,...

Parents who fight the morning traffic on U.S. 150 to enter Boyle County Middle School and Woodlawn Elementary schools hopefully will find a reprieve in the next year.  Chris Holderman, director of operations for Boyle County Schools, revealed...

A telephone call from my oncology department made me very happy this week. At first, I answered the phone with a little trepidation just simply because of the origin of the call. After the caller informed me I was indeed who she wanted on the phone, she...

For Lisa Betts and her husband, the conversation started Friday at their Silver Spring, Md., home, not long after they heard about the massacre that claimed the lives of 20 children and six staff members at a Connecticut school. How safe, they wondered,...

While the tragedy of Sandy Hook Elementary is far away in Connecticut, the fear of danger is never far away. Helping young students and children come to terms with the aftermath of a mass shooting can be difficult. “The most important thing...

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - A grieving Connecticut town braced itself Monday to bury the first two of the 20 small victims of an elementary school gunman and debated when classes could resume — and where, given the carnage in the building and the...

For the Jennings family, the unknown is a real part of their lives. Vanessa, 11, and Jacob, 7, were diagnosed with a rare disease in 2008. At the time, Vanessa was 7 and Jacob just 2. Doctors had been testing Vanessa since she was about 2 years old in...

Who is responsible for a school’s protection? To the editor, Recent news reports that parents of a child that survived the Conn. school shooting are suing the school and/or state for failing to provide a safe environment for their child. The...

In the aftermath of the recent school shootings in Newtown, Conn., local educators and law enforcement officials are taking a deeper look at their existing school safety plans. By now, Danville parents should have all received letters from...

Editor’s note: Taken from the Danville 911 records, the Police Blotter represents a history of the initial calls and the information used by the dispatcher to send officers to investigate complaints. It is not necessarily an indication of what the...

Hudson-Ellis Funds, an affiliate of Blue Grass Community Foundation, awarded more than $76,000 in grants to 501(c)(3) charitable organizations, schools and exempt governmental units or their subdivisions serving Boyle County. A ceremony was held ...

Parents of students at Pilot View, Fannie Bush and Central elementary schools now know where their children will attend school next year. The Clark County Board of Education Tuesday chose the configuration for the district’s elementary schools...