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One of Kentucky's best-kept secrets is the Barren Academy of Virtual and Expanded Learning.

While the commonwealth loses 10,000 students from each graduating class, only 110 students currently are enrolled in the academy. Nevertheless, BAVEL offers the right kind of alternative to tip the scales in the other direction.

Not only does it offer all Kentucky students - regardless of where they live - the opportunity to acquire a high school diploma while every single class online, but it's getting top-quality results at very low costs.

For those of you who do not care about chickens, much less my pet chickens – this is the time to stop reading. Fair warning.
There have been a couple of people in recent weeks, however, who have asked about the Ireland hendom so I offer an update.
Things have been a bit wild in the chicken lot since we lost one of my favorite hens – “Red” – a couple of months ago.
It was not a traumatic end – as was the case with our rooster Russell Crow who lost his head to a passing possum. She simply molted, stayed sickly and died.

 I was on an early morning goose hunt with my husband and a friend in Boston, Ky., on  Sept. 11, 2001.
After our hunt, I walked to pick up our truck while the guys gathered decoys. When I got in the truck the radio was on and reports of the attacks were being reported.

Sept. 11, 2001, was a Tuesday.
Just like every Tuesday for the past 10 years (and more than 100 years before that) the staff of The LaRue County Herald News was putting together the Wednesday paper.
The Sept. 12 paper was an informative issue with stories about the murder of a veteran in Upton, a teen injured in a car crash, Upton residents in an uproar when an adult bookstore “The Lion’s Den” opened, the death of legendary sports commentator Cawood Ledford and youth league soccer.