Anytime, anyplace — Ask Rikki Nelson to sing and she’s ready to oblige.
The typical school band spends months practicing the selections for a concert, honing their skills and polishing their performance.
One of the area�s longest-running and most beloved musical acts took the stage at the Paramount Arts Center on Friday night with the purpose of providing some high and middle school students with a glimpse of real working musicians in action.
There won’t be much time for practice, although a group of local singers will make it to Carnegie Hall.
Grover Cleveland is not exactly a household name, especially among teenagers.
If you’re going to have a jam session, you can’t go wrong with a rendition of “Freebird” to get things started.
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association banned Rose Hill Christian School from boys basketball postseason play for two years, fined the school $6,000 and enacted a three-year probation for violations.
This is the 20th year of Ashland Youth Ballet and to celebrate that milestone, the group has changed its Christmas program.
The Ashland Community and Technical College Theater will present the 16th performance of “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley” in the J.B. Sowards Theater starting tonight through Friday at 8 p.m. A Saturday performance will start at 2:30 p.m.
Ashland’s boys and Fairview’s girls cross country teams enjoyed high state rankings, won regional championships and finished well at the State Meet.
"We are No. 1, where learning is fun!”
With a generous load of food in cans, boxes and bags collected before the annual Russell Turkey Trot, organizer Ruthie Lynd says students at Russell High School have been especially generous despite tough economic conditions within the community.
Anti-tobacco advocates saw some positive results of their efforts Wednesday morning at a local school.
Three years after area college presidents gathered on a barge in the middle of the Ohio River and agreed to collaborate in boosting enrollment, all remain enthusiastic about their agreement.
The sounds of Christmas drifted through the halls of Worthington Elementary School Thursday afternoon.
Students were painting themselves into history at Boyd County Middle School on Friday morning.
Autumn Fields had never played Scrabble before Wednesday.
Lucky she had her big sister to show her how.
School districts may not have to continue taking financial hits from high absenteeism caused by influenza outbreaks.
One of the leading violinists in the world was in Ashland on Tuesday to perform with a group of college students
Eastern Kentucky schools are good examples of how the United States can regain its lead in education, the state’s top education official said Friday.
It was an assignment Tom Sawyer would have loved.
It involved bringing forbidden materials into the classroom and using them to re-tell his own story.
The students in Kim Dearing’s sophomore English class at Russell High School brought their cell phones in and used their text-messaging features to write new lines of dialogue between characters in the classic novel of boyhood mischief.
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear was in Russell Wednesday morning to talk about a new state-wide dental initiative that will train dental professionals to work with patients younger than 6-years-old.
Every Wednesday night after she and her parents have supper at her grandparents' house, Logan Prysiaszniuk heads downstairs to her workshop.
Valerie Ellis is standing in the middle of Hudson’s Bay, about five feet from a visitor in the vicinity of Kamloops, British Columbia.
Students at Mason County Area Technology Center have installed a wind generator.
Teachers at Hager Elementary really care about the kids and the kids like them right back, third-grade teacher Linda Mahanna was telling a visitor Wednesday.
Feed the Children delivered nourishment for children hungry for knowledge as well as food on Thursday.
Reilly Barker, 10, of Ashland, pushed a purple fabric square through a sewing machine, practicing neat, straight stitches. Across the room, Geri Willis pulled tangled thread out of a stalled machine.
Greenup County elementary school students discovered a lost spaceship on the planet of Saturn Wednesday morning.
Every week, teachers at the Ramey-Estep High School sit down with treatment staffers who work with the troubled youths who live on the campus and go to the school.
A girl peddled her bike furiously in a conference room at the Pullman Plaza Hotel in Huntington on Tuesday.
The Kentucky Board of Education has named four out of state applicants as finalists for commissioner of education.
When Ashley Robinson was born, she weighed a pound and 11 ounces — at the time, the smallest baby born at King’s Daughters Medical Center who survived. Her arrival was even featured on the front page of The Independent.
The Rose Hil Christian School Drama will present "The Lady Pirates of Captain Bree" at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday at the Kyova Mall.
Will Judd always knew he would work for NASA.
It’s never too early to learn.
Students in Michael Doran’s study skills class took extra care drawing their graph paper diagrams.
A student project at Wurtland Middle School is bubbling over with success.
The frogs that sixth-graders dissected in Beverly McDavid’s science class may not make it to the afterlife, but it won’t be for lack of preparation.
To the kids it was just another play day.
Heads bent low over their work table, the three girls crunched financial numbers for a lemonade stand.
Students in the after-school program at Worthington Elementary got a hands-on lesson in weather and meteorology on Thursday.
The Boyd County Board of Education has selected an architectural firm to design a new high school.
A tap on the keyboard sent a pixilated rodent on a frenetic quest for gold rings, while Dustin Thompson tried vainly to explain computer coding to a visitor.
Doomsday talk about skyrocketing tuition is overblown and college remains affordable for most Kentuckians, the new president of the state Council on Postsecondary Education said Thursday.
It was a head-over-heels return to his old school.
Fairview High School theater students perform "Bye, Bye Birdie" this week with five shows at the elementary school.
Looking back, members of the Boyd County Middle School archery team say it is interesting to see how far they’ve come since the early days when they were “excited just to be shooting.”
The embattled Russell High School academic team fared well in the two of the state Governor’s Cup events for which it was eligible.
A local teacher has had the honor of appearing on the cover of the March issue of Kentucky Teacher, a magazine published by the Kentucky Department of Education for teachers, school administrators, parents and others with education concerns.
Waiting for the ambulance can be agonizing.
Monday was the day when everyone likes green eggs and ham.
A collaborative effort between area school districts, colleges and medical facilities aimed at improving the health of local children kicked off last week.
It’s fun to play dead.
The Russell High School academic team received the top overall
score at the Governor¹s Cup regional competition last week.
Paul G. Blazer came in second, West Carter was third, Boyd County fourth and Greenup County fifth.
The governing body of the Governor’s Cup competition has banned Russell’s academic coach and most of the academic team’s scores in the regional competition won’t be counted.
Matt Knupp has been suspended as Russell High School academic coach pending the outcome of an investigation of actions that led to the postponement of the written assessment portion of Saturday’s regional Governor’s Cup competition at Boyd County High School.
School mascots. You’ve seen them — students suited up in goofy, big-headed animal costumes, clowning for the home-team crowd.
Unusual questions were being asked Saturday during the regional Governor�s Cup academic competition at Boyd County High School, although the inquiries and answers weren�t on any student�s test.
The costumes Dathan Hooper pulled out of the plastic bin were a motley collection of funny hats, scarves and masks.
Standing up in front of a room full of kids you see every day and reciting a poem is tough.
The idea came after Catherine Delvalle saw a teenager sitting in front of a computer, texting on a cell phone with one hand and adjusting the earbuds of an MP3 player with the other hand.
Actor and Ashland native Steve Kazee will die next week.
The Paramount Arts Center brought a learning performance to the stage Tuesday with the Bi-Okoto African Dance and Drum, a Cincinnati group that took area school children through the music of seveeral African countries.
The 40 minutes they spend together every Friday morning may be the most important in the week for the eight teachers sitting around a conference table — and there’s not a single student in the room.
President-elect Barack Obama may think he has enough to wrestle with already: A tanking economy, two wars that have been dragging on for years, a broken health care system, global warming and a still-polarized Congress.
A new game has captured Wurtland Middle School by storm.
It combines elements of the popular teen craze Dance Dance Revolution with the arcade staple Whack-a-Mole.
The curtain dropped Thursday night at the Adkins-Caudill Performing Arts Center on the final run of “Still Life With Iris.”
You’d never tuck one in your bag to read at the beach.
Two years ago, Lauren Burgess was fresh out of college and wondering what kind of job she could get with her Spanish and English degrees.
“It’s on page 170.”
Evan Holbrook won’t even try to pretend the inclusion of his short story in an anthology doesn’t excite him.
Eighty Kentucky high school bands, including three from northeastern Kentucky, advanced last weekend from the quarterfinals of the Kentucky Music Education Association State March Band Championship to the semifinal round.
It was an all-day variety show with a rotating cast, a potpourri of singing, dancing, comedy and drama.
Average scores on the ACT college entrance exam dipped slightly for the high school class of 2008 as the number of students taking the exam jumped by 9 percent compared to last year.
Students at Fallsburg Elementary School will join others from several states, Canada and Mexico in a project to track the migratory patterns of monarch butterflies.
The intermediate grades — fourth and fifth — are separated by a hallway from the primary ones at Greysbranch Elementary School.
Mayor Steve Gilmore will be Ashland’s new school superintendent.
Steve Gilmore will give up his mayoral post when he takes over as superintendent of Ashland schools.
Competition was fierce among students Saturday at the Governor’s Cup regional competition for elementary students at Russell-McDowell Intermediate School
By uttering a single word, Claire Lyon triggered a wild celebration on Saturday.
Fairview eighth-graders have been poking their noses into every corner of their campus, asking questions about energy usage, recycling, safety and health. Then they’re developing plans to use less energy, do more recycling and improve safety and health.
Birds push their young from downy nests into a sky criss-crossed by eagles.
Seals nudge theirs across the ice and into the frigid Arctic sea.
Wolves nudge cubs from the den into trackless wilderness.
None of them sheds a tear.
Some things we take for granted in school.
The chairmen of the House and Senate budget committees said Thursday that lawmakers should resist cutting education when putting together a state spending plan for the next two years amid sluggish revenues.
Surprise! The state budget crunch which new Gov. Steve Beshear has been talking about is likely to result in higher tuition costs for Kentucky college students.
Ashland Community and Technical College has set another record enrollment.
There was little suspense and even less surprise. As expected, the Kentucky Board of Education selected northern Kentucky Republican legislator Jon Draud as Education Commissioner at a special called meeting Sunday afternoon.
Kentucky's new education commissioner, unlike predecessors who were chasing distant goals, will face the looming task of leading the state closer toward completing its education reform movement started nearly 20 years ago.
Getting started on the banjo is easy, said Pete Wernick, who has played with Earl Scruggs and other greats.
Sitting on a sectional couch on the Rent to Own sales floor on U.S. 60, James Hancock kept his eyes on assistant manager Ed Rogers, ignoring the din from the Grand Theft Auto game on the giant-screen TV across the store.
Marching bands from Russell High School, Paul G. Blazer High School and Rowan County High School are among 80 throughout the state to qualify for the Kentucky Music Educators Association State Marching Band Championships semifinal round.
NASA's rover Opportunity has reached its first stop inside a huge Martian crater and was poised Thursday to carry out the first science experiments.
With the advice of highway engineers, eighth-grade science students at West Carter Middle School learned last week they can build surprisingly sound structures from toothpicks and gumdrops.
A half-century after the Supreme Court outlawed segregated schools, sharply divided justices clamped new limits Thursday on local school efforts to make sure children of different races share classrooms.
A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt -- more than a century ago.
Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious -- students were writing the answers under the brim. Then, schools started banning cell phones, realizing students could text message the answers to each other.
For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big step in the search for "life in the universe."
Sitting with her back to the single bank of windows in the high-ceilinged studio, Joey Brown coaxed an image from the blackened sketch pad propped in front of her.
Brown and nine other students scattered around the studio glanced occasionally at a jumble of draperies in front of them under the glare of a single light.
The occasional rasp of erasers on paper punctuated the quiet as images slowly emerged on the pads.
The only previous experience Alisa Borders had in archery was a gym class she had to take in college. She never thought she’d be coaching fourth- and fifth-graders in the sport.
