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(Clinton KY, August 14, 2012) – Superintendent Kenny Wilson launched the third year of Falcon Academy at an event billed as The Falcon Academy Celebration with the help of WKCTC President Barbara Veazey, Mid-Continent President Robert Imhoff and MSU President Randy Dunn, faculty, parents, students and community supporters.

Pictured at left is teacher JoAnna Mounger's third grade class watching as Seavers handles an opossum. The students had an opportunity to learn about the animal's natural habitat and many other facts that correlated with science core content.

...While I wish that Lt. Gov. Abramson had not made the remarks he made in the forum he made them, I cannot totally disagree with what he said.

...The political speaking has descended from witty repartee to character assassination. Hordes come, not to listen to the speaker and quarrel with their perspective, but to drown out and humiliate them.

(August 17, 2012) - On this date in 1862, an ex-navy lieutenant turned army major general was the new Union commander in Kentucky.

Mason County native William O. Nelson was the only naval officer to become a two-star general in the Civil War. He was also one of the largest commanders in blue or gray. The burly, bearded Nelson was six-feet-four and weighed 300-pounds, hence his nickname “Bull.”