Education

Taylor County Middle School recognized eighth-grade students during an award and promotion ceremony on May 21. Many students were honored by subject, for maintaining a 4.0 GPA for all three years of middle school and an outstanding eighth-grader was named.

Receiving reading awards were Lucian Gribbins, Madison Bishop, Fayth Wise and Gabby Coomer. Andie Woodcox, Emma Miles, Austin Malone, Kaitlyn Lee, Lydia Epperson and Morgan Benningfield received writing awards.

Taylor County High School chemistry/physics/aviation science teacher Deborah Hinton was recently named the 2013 Air Force Association Aviation Educator of the Year. Gene McManaway from the Air Force Association presented Hinton with the award.

Hinton started the Flying Cardinals program in 2010, and since then the Flying Cardinals have received numerous statewide awards, including:

First year 2010-2011 - Place second in state at Wing Design Challenge and first in written formal report and recognized for best uniform thanks to Fancy That.

Taylor County Elementary School students are helping "pick up the tab" for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Bluegrass one soda tab at a time.

Students Jayden McCubbin, Callie McCubbin and Chloe McCubbin, Molly Bush and Jayda Smith began collecting tabs in their Girls in Action mission group at Liberty Baptist Church with the help of their leader, Paula Smith.

Recently, the group volunteered to cook supper for residents at the Ronald McDonald house and turned in more than 50 pounds of tabs.

Work to reconfigure the Campbellsville Independent School system's buildings is about halfway complete.

Superintendent Mike Deaton said classrooms are being physically moved and floors sealed and waxed in the process.

He said new offices are more or less set up and phone lines have been moved. As such, if someone calls the elementary school, he said, the call now rings at the former middle school, which is where students in preschool through third grade will attend class as of August.