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Grant County High School saw improvements and Williamstown High School remained highly ranked in recently released ACT results.
The data released by the Kentucky Department of Education is from high school juniors who took the test during the 2011-12 school year.
Since 2008, state law has mandated all of Kentucky’s public school juniors participate in the ACT, which assesses English, reading, mathematics and science and is scored on a scale of 1 to 36.

Joyce Doyle has left the county.
The former teacher, coach, principal, truant officer and 4-H agent has left Grant County to be Carroll County’s newest 4-H agent.
“I’m a person who really, really has to have a challenge,” Doyle said, last Friday, as she packed up her 4-H office on Baton Rouge Road in Williamstown.

Jacob Vickers is just 12 years old, but he’s a fighter and a survivor. He was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, or a cancerous tumor of the muscles attached to bone. It is rare and the most common soft tissue tumor in children. In the six years since it was discovered, he’s fought hard and undergone round after round of chemotherapy and radiation. This past July was spent in the hospital.

His cancer is in remission and he’s been able to return to schools. This year he’s in sixth grade at Grant County Middle School.

State budget cuts have led school districts to scramble to decide how to pay for mandatory criminal background checks for volunteers.
From field trip chaperones and athletic and band boosters to reading mentors, schools rely on volunteers daily.
The Administrative Office of the Courts has covered the $10 cost per background check for nearly 20 years at the state public and private schools, including processing nearly 217,000 criminal record reports statewide in 2011.