GRAVES COUNTY, KY (KFVS) - Lowes Elementary fifth grader Kade Burnett enters his ballot in a real voting machine at his school while Graves County Clerk Barry Kennemore oversees the process.

Kennemore said he has made it a practice to offer the activity to all public schools in Mayfield and Graves County, rather than to wait for schools to request it. That was after some high school students told him they’d gotten to vote as elementary students and others did not. He explained that the way students vote typically mirrors their parents’ vote. For that reason, he limits the student vote to federal presidential elections, not local races.

Pollsters might want to note that in Lowes the vote was 154 for Republican challenger Mitt Romney and 118 for Democrat incumbent Barack Obama.

GRAVES COUNTY, KY (KFVS) - Wingo Elementary sixth grader Trevor Grant, son of Jonathan and Michele Grant, recently served as a legislative page at the state capitol in Frankfort for state Rep. Fred Nesler.

Earlier in the school year, Trevor submitted an application to participate to Rep. Nesler. It included an essay in response to the prompt, "Why I Would Like to Be a Legislative Page" and a piece of art he created that is related to the work of the Wingo Elementary Family Resource Center.

Trevor joined some 164 other students from across the Commonwealth for Legislative Page Day. The Family Resource and Youth Services Centers Coalition of Kentucky sponsored the unique experience.

"I learned more about how our government works since I was able to actually spend some time on the floor of the House of Representatives,” Trevor said. He concluded with a broad smile, “It was a great day."

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MAYFIELD, KY (KFVS) - The Graves County High School Jazz Band started the morning session of the Kentucky General Assembly's House of Representatives Tuesday, March 22.

Students were introduced by State Representative Fred Nesler from Mayfield and vocalist Emily Duff, also a GCHS student, sang "America, the Beautiful" and "Respect" with the band.

The group has peformed in several places including the annual summer institute of the Kentucky Association of School Administrators. They are under the direction of Jeff Williams.

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