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“If it’s ‘community service’ I don’t want to have anything to do with it!” said a Harrison County High School student during the school’s first-ever Volunteer Fair.
Sponsored by the Cynthiana Rotary Club and the Harrison County Board of Education, the Volunteer Fair took place in the high school gymnasium on April 19.
Throughout the day, groups of students were brought in to learn about how they could help the more than 25 community organizations represented.  

After spending more than three months addressing the needs of the state, the General Assembly wrapped up its work on Friday with the enactment of a $4.5 billion road plan and a new initiative to limit the sky-rocketing prescription drug abuse that Kentucky has unfortunately seen over the last decade.

Flipping through the pages of an old leather bond yearbook, one will see many faces.
How they went and where they went to high school is much different from how many others have gone.
Many of the names are not remembered and some have gone on to do great things that stamp their names in the pages of history forever.
In 1962, a tradition was put to rest that began back in September 1872.
That tradition included teaching students in the graded areas of Latin, analysis, surveying, mental philosophy and history.

On Thursday this week, the General Assembly returns for the legislative session’s final day, which is traditionally set aside for considering any vetoes the governor may issue.
This year, however, there will also be other work done during that time, which is expected to include passing the state’s road plan, approving a major initiative designed to crack down on prescription drug abuse and giving the go-ahead to an innovative proposal that will use coal-severance dollars to boost the number of four-year college degrees in coal-producing counties.