Education

In only the second year of competition, Grant County teens earned a second place finish in the state finals for LifeSmarts, a consumer education game-show style  competition for high school students. Students tested their knowledge and skills in the areas of health and safety, personal finance, environment and technology, consumer rights and responsibilities.

Donna McClanahan serves as the team’s coach, while Joyce Doyle, county extension agent for 4-H, serves as assistant coach.

Chantel L. March, of Dry Ridge, was among those graduating from Western Kentucky University in the fall 2010.
March received a Master of Science degree.

Rain, sleet nor snow days will keep the Grant County High School National Honor Society from letting the Navy know they are appreciated.
The students, and their advisors, Kristie Northcutt and Emily Figueroa, challenged students in third hour classes, teachers and staff to bring in items, such as body wash, shampoo, dental floss, writing paper, binders and batteries, black pens and pencils.

New Orleans may lay claim to professional trumpet player Wynton Marsalis, but Grant County Middle School has Cassidy Mullins, an eighth grade musician, who is heading to the National Trumpet Competition in Washington, D.C. this month.
Mullins, who has been playing for two years, competed against hundreds of middle school students from across the nation, who sent in recorded auditions. She was one of only eight trumpet players chosen as a semi-finalist.