GRAVES COUNTY, KY (KFVS) - Lowes Elementary School’s new principal, starting with the 2013-14 school year, will be Amanda Henson. The school’s site-based decision-making council voted to hire her Wednesday afternoon, March 27.

Henson has served as lead teacher at Cuba Elementary School in southern Graves County since 2011. She also served there as a guidance counselor for four years and as a teacher, starting in 2000.

 “I look so forward to becoming part of the Lowes family and team. They have such great success here and I’m excited about being part of that,” Henson said. “I think we will continue to build on their success here. They clearly are doing so many things well. Now, my job is to contribute to that effort with ideas and experience I can bring to collaborate with these great faculty and staff members who obviously have wonderful ideas. I’m looking forward to learning from them and also sharing ideas I’ve found that work.”

GRAVES COUNTY, KY (KFVS) - The Kentucky State Police honored nine members of the agency who went above and beyond the call of duty to make highways safer in the Commonwealth.

The sixth annual “Excellence in Highway Safety” award ceremony was held at KSP Headquarters on March 26, 2013. The awards are based upon the highest number of occupant protection, speed, driving under the influence, commercial motor vehicle citations written and educational programs presented during 2012. 

KSP Commissioner Rodney Brewer presented the awards to four troopers, three officers and two civilian inspectors.

“I am proud of the troopers and officers who are being honored today and it extends beyond these nine individuals,” says Brewer. “It’s really every unit we have that’s out there on our highways, or in our local communities, advocating for highway safety on a daily basis.”

GRAVES COUNTY, KY (KFVS) - A senior Agricultural Science with Agricultural Education certification major from Murray State University arrived at Graves County High School recently to work with the students and teachers in the Agricultural Science and Technology Department and the FFA program for the next 16 weeks.

Ashley Burks, 21, is working under the guidance of cooperating teacher Richard Horn to learn all aspects of a successful agricultural science and technology program at the high school level. Burks will strive to become proficient in teaching a variety of classes in the career and technical education area, as well as in assisting students with leadership development in the FFA organization and with career-focused experiential programs.

Upon completion of the student teaching experience, Burks will return to Murray to participate in commencement exercises at Murray State where she will earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Sciences.