Education

A familiar spring sight is getting ready to return Tamarack Road. The annual Tamarack Elementary School Carnival is scheduled for May 3-5 and there is even more reason for celebration this year. Tamarack Elementary and the carnival are celebrating their 50th anniversary!

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The Daviess County Public Schools district is celebrating the results of Advanced Placement tests taken by students at Apollo and Daviess County high schools in May 2012! 

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Parents can get ready for their kids to head to college - or that first career - at the Daviess County Middle School Career/College Readiness program!  

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The Green River Workforce Investment Board (WIB) has launched a comprehensive workforce study to collect data on local hiring trends, occupations in demand, industry growth, skill gaps and other information that will strengthen the efforts of economic development, education, and workforce development agencies to meet the workforce training needs of business and industry

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Audubon Elementary School                      Caleb York

300 Worthington Road                          852-7150

Tuesday, Aug. 14 – SBDM meets at 4 p.m. …

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With August 11 almost here, Atmos Energy hopes this date on the calendar, 8/11, will serve as a natural reminder for residents to call 811 prior to any digging project to have underground utility lines marked. This comes on the heels of a recent report which determined an underground utility line is damaged during digging projects every three minutes nationwide.

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Fifth-grade students at Highland Elementary School will “go for the gold” this week with a creative Olympic game activity. 

In honor of the Olympic games taking place in London, and to represent Highland’s back-to-school theme, “All Things Patriotic,” each group of fifth-graders will receive a bag of mystery items with which to “create” an Olympic event. Students will use the “Productive Thinking and Planning” talent, which is part of the Talents Unlimited curriculum, to invent a game using the equipment provided in their bags. 

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West Louisville and Whitesville elementary schools were recently awarded Community Benefit grants sponsored by Owensboro Medical Health System. OMHS distributed nearly $641,400 to 53 regional organizations for 57 projects last week. 

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The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has announced the beginning of the 2012 Adopt-a-Highway Poster Contest. Students from across the Commonwealth are invited to submit creative works for use in the Adopt-a-Highway calendar for 2013

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The Owensboro Police Department, community owned and operated since 1817,wants to give the citizens of Owensboro the opportunity to see how THEIR department operates on a day-to-day basis.

 The Department believes that by educating the community, they can foster better communications between the Owensboro Police Department and those they serve.

That is why they are currently accepting applications for the 2012 Citizen’s Police Academy. 

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