Education

Abraham Lincoln Elementary followed in the steps of Hodgenville Elementary with its own Mini-Relay for Life this year. The school had participated in Relay for the past eight years, yet this was the first year that grade levels combined for friendly competition to raise money for the countywide event and to hold their own Mini-Relay complete with luminarias and banners. Held over a period of two days and in conjunction with field day events, the Mini-Relay was conducted in cooperation with Hardin Memorial Hospital’s Wellness on Wheels.

LaRue County High School graduate and Transylvania University sophomore Curtis Puryear has been named to the Dean’s List for the 2010 winter term. 

He achieved at least a 3.5 grade point average during the term.

Puryear, a philosophy and psychology double major, is the son of Carlton and Donna Puryear of Hodgenville.

Abraham Lincoln Elementary School announced its final recipients of this year’s Lincoln Presidential Cabinet Awards.

Nominated by several of her fellow instructional colleagues, Donna Sherrard is this month’s classified winner. She has been with the LaRue County Schools since 1992 and has served as an instructional assistant for both the classroom and special education. She has a great “can do” attitude and is always busy working with a child, grading papers, making observations for a teacher’s records or monitoring a group of children.

Carlee Ledezma is the recipient of the Cantrell-Lorey Scholarship.

The scholarship was donated by former graduate Emma Cantrell Lorey (Class of 1958) and her husband.

Ledezma plans to attend Campbellsville University this fall to pursue a nursing degree.