Community News

 Grants were the talk of Monday night’s Lawrenceburg City Council, including one that will purchase bullet-proof vests for Anderson County EMS.

 Anderson County High School freshman Lainey Drake has been named to the Kentucky Music Educators Association all-state band.

Drake was selected to play flute. She will be performing at the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville on Saturday. 

“I was very shocked that I made it,” says Drake, who started playing flute in the sixth grade. She says she will be the first chair in the all-state concert band, but 15th overall. 

Drake hopes to attend Eastern Kentucky University to prepare for a career in music.

 Last year’s General Assembly produced legislation allowing charter schools in Kentucky. The 2018 school choice battleground is a House and Senate bill that would create a statewide scholarship tax credit program for private schools. 

 An Eastern Kentucky University student from Lawrenceburg was one of 17 students at the university to win a study abroad scholarship at a “Spin-the-Wheel” event on the campus last week. 

Cameron Peyton, a junior international business and global supply chain management major, “jumped from his seat, raced down the … aisle, eschewed the steps and took a flying leap to the stage” when his name was announced as a winner, according to an EKU news release.