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Immigrants seek better future for families magine you are so poor that your six-member family is living in a four-room house without a bathroom.

To wash your family’s clothes, you must take them to the river and get them as clean as you can.

Your children are thirsty for knowledge, but there’s no school in your town.

There are no jobs and many nights, you lie awake wondering how you will continue to take care of your family.

With hopes of a better life, imagine you move your family to a nearby city, but there are no jobs there, either. And still no school.
September 24, 2008
Homeschooling: Education not confined to school walls While they do not receive an official high school diploma from a public or private school, homeschooled students are held to the same admission standards as other students at Eastern Kentucky University and Berea College.
February 26, 2008
Superintendent of the year Lisa Caudill said her late husband would have been happy to receive statewide recognition Saturday for his many accomplishments as superintendent.
February 26, 2008
Homeschooling: Education not confined to school walls As the number of homeschoolers have grown, so has the options available in Madison County for collaboration and partnership between families.

BRANCH, one of several homeschool cooperatives, has been operating for about 14 years, said Laura Kilgore, who was coordinator for the group for eight years.
February 26, 2008 1 Photo
Kohl’s to open in 3 weeks Kohl’s Department Stores will open its Richmond store March 13, the Menomonee Falls, Wis., company announced Thursday.

February 23, 2008
Homeschooling: Education not confined to school walls Janet Futrell remembers what homeschool was like during the “trailblazing years” when she first moved to Berea in the 1980s.

February 23, 2008
Homeschooling: Education not confined to school walls Religion.

Individualized instruction.

Family atmosphere.

Protection from dangers in school.

A love of learning.

These are just a few of the many reasons more and more parents are deciding to put their children’s education into their own hands through homeschooling.
February 23, 2008 1 Photo
Facing the future The Madison County Sheriff’s Department is growing. And with that growth comes new issues and new needs, many of which are similar to the issues and needs of other agencies across the state.

The Department of Criminal Justice Training sponsored a symposium last week which brought together 18 panel members from across the state to discuss issues law enforcement officials are facing, address the concerns they predict will arise in the next 10 years and develop a unified plan to tackle those issues.

October 1, 2007
Playing Hurt: Survey shows coaching requirements spotty A team of lanky 13-year-olds trails Coach Mike Del Valle into a hallway outside a Canisius College gymnasium.

“You played hard. You never quit. You can be proud,” Del Valle assures the Niagara Rapids girls. Their defeat — to the powerhouse Blessed Sacrament Yellow Jackets of Hamilton, Ontario — came in the opening round of an Amateur Athletic Union super-regional basketball tournament in Buffalo, N.Y.

It is the first weekend in May and Del Valle is spending his 64th birthday like so many before — coaching young athletes. He tells his players to stretch, as he draws upon training and experience that tell him conditioning after a game prevents sprains and joint problems in growing muscles.

Del Valle, who works for a bank in Buffalo, has carried clipboards for football, softball, baseball and basketball teams for 40 years. He has volunteered for most of those jobs. He has more training than most of his peers.
September 4, 2007
Peer pressure: Which way should you go? Middle school is the time for many “firsts,” and some of those can be brought on by a little encouragement from friends. But in this case, the encouragement could lead students down a path that is unfortunately being traveled more and more by America’s youths.

In younger years, “dares” and peer pressure ended with a tongue stuck to a frozen lamp post or candy being stolen from the grocery store.

The innocence of youth thins as a child grows older, making them more vulnerable to potentially dangerous forms of peer pressure.

Based on surveys conducted in the Madison County School District, children as young as 12 have reported using inhalants, marijuana, tobacco and alcohol.
August 28, 2007
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