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Broadband grants announced

By Kasey Joyner
The Rural Utilities Services, a department of the US Department of Agriculture, recently named four Kentucky communities as recipients of the competitive Community Connect Grants.
The federal grants, totaling nearly $1 million, will create virtual broadband networks for rural communities that do not have high-speed Internet service. Communities awarded the grants are Concord in Lewis County, Berry in Harrison County, Columbus in Hickman County and Monterey in Owen County.

Kentucky's Prescription for Innovation is a comprehensive plan to accelerate technology growth, particularly in the areas of broadband deployment and technology literacy and usage. The initiative seeks to blanket Kentucky with broadband service by the end of 2007.
The Community Connect grants will be used to create a technology center in each community, equipped with 10 computer workstations that will enable residents to access high-speed Internet free of charge. Moreover, the grants will provide free broadband access to critical community facilities such as fire, law enforcement and emergency response facilities.

School Board approves tax rate

Meeting in a brief session Monday, September 18, the Lewis County Board of Education heard that the Lewis County School and Agricultural Fair parade was a great success.
A lot of children attended the parade and turn out was very good.

The board approved the compensating rate for real estate and personal property tax of .407 percent, down from 2005.
The board also approved payment of substitute bus drivers for training; the local planning committee membership; and a field trip for the Lewis County High School FFA to the national FFA convention, which will be held out of state.

Election update

By Shirley Hinton
It's getting close to election time again this year.
The upcoming ballot will be the largest one ever presented to the general public, with races ranging from US Representative, State Representative and Senator, Justice of the Supreme Court, five judges including the newly created Family Court Judge, all county and city offices, plus three local school board members.
This will be the second election in which we will be utilizing both types of voting equipment in each precinct.
Federal laws require us to have the newer E-Slate machines available in addition to the older 1242 machines.

This year, the 1242 machines will have a slightly different look on the inside. In the past, the format consisted of reading the list of candidates left to right extending away from the office title. With the new layout you will read from top to bottom of each column.
As before, you will still be able to vote straight party, if you so choose, but it will have a different appearance. Instead of simply lighting up everyone listed under a single column, it will jump from column to column, selecting each candidate from said party. In the upcoming weeks the sample ballot that will be published will show the new layout.
The one thing to be careful of with the new layout is to remember if lights are still flashing then there is something else you can vote on. The solid lights show which candidates you have already selected.

Your vote does count and does make a difference.

Teegarden named to advisory committee

Bill Teegarden, Lewis County adult education program director, has been appointed to the statewide Kentucky Adult Education Advisory Committee by Sarah Hindman Hawker, vice president for Kentucky Adult Education (KYAE), a unit of the Council on Postsecondary Education.

Teegarden will help KYAE identify issues of concern to adult educators and advise the agency on solutions and policy directions.

"As a recognized leader in adult education, Bill's participation on this committee will benefit the entire adult education system," Hawker said. "He will be instrumental in helping KYAE reach its goal of raising the educational attainment of adults in the Commonwealth."

Adult education centers in every Kentucky county provide free GED classes, workforce education, family literacy and English as a second language and literacy services. For more information, call Lewis County Adult Education at 606-796-0245.

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