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Change is inevitable. Sometimes it’s a good thing and sometimes it’s not quite what you hoped it would be or in other words a work in progress.

That’s kind of the way we feel about the look of our new Web site.

We had grand plans for a Web site that had all the bells and whistles and that would just take your breath away when it popped onto your computer screen.

While all of the runners in the 1A state cross country meet had to deal with the weather, a Williamstown runner also had to do deal with a bout of illness.

Katie Butler, a freshman, ran while fighting strep throat, finishing 97th.

“I had a shot of penicillin, but my strep wasn’t all the way gone,” Butler said. “It was harder than normal. The weather also affected me. I didn’t run the way I wanted to. I should have done better. I was hoping to break my personal record from last year, but I didn’t.”

Grant County’s boys’ soccer team made history this past season.

They earned the program’s 100th win, won a school record 11 games and advanced to the school’s first regional championship. But the motivation and desire to do well started when this group of seniors helped win a district championship their freshmen year.

“My freshman year, we all went to districts and won that,” Chase Keeton said. “That was something we had to overcome and this year and we did that, plus some more.”

Crittenden author Ryan Clark will be signing his book on basketball, ‘Game of My Life: Kentucky,’ at the 27th annual Kentucky Book Fair on Saturday, Nov. 15, at the downtown Frankfort Convention Center.

The 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Book Fair is free and will feature more than 200 authors, artists and illustrators.

In Clark’s book, 30 former Wildcats relive their defining moments at Kentucky.