Features

 FRANKFORT — Artwork created by students at 30 Kentucky schools will be featured as unique art installations on the grounds of the Old State Capitol during the Governor’s Derby Celebration, May 4 in downtown Frankfort.

 After finishing the regular season by winning seven first-place awards at the Station Camp High School Drill Meet in Station Camp, Tenn., the North Bullitt JROTC unit is headed to national competition.

They competed against 12 other drill units at Station Camp.

In Daytona Beach, Fla., the North Bullitt cadets will compete in the 31st annual National High School Drill Team Championships, May 4-6.

Less than 5 percent of the high school drill units are accepted. Over 150 units and 4,000 cadets will participate.

 CLERMONT - When local officials are sworn in they have to admit they have not participated in a duel.

 Our band at Zoneton Middle School has experienced yet another great year.

In the summer of 2012 ten band students from our school were selected to go to the Summer Middle School Wind Band Institute at the University of Louisville.

In late September, ZMS Advanced Band put on a show at Paroquet Springs, which drew quite a crowd. This performance by our band had two pop selections along with a contemporary piece.

 MOUNT WASHINGTON - Having advanced through preliminary judging, the team of three Bullitt East Students known as the Mount Washington Youth Chamber of Preservationists (aka the “Youth COPs”) joined with over 5,000 students of all ages from over 400 schools representing 100 Kentucky districts at the Lexington Convention Center for the annual state finals of the Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP) competition.

 WEST POINT – A local family will soon be the target of national attention as the popular cable network CMT prepares to air the first episode of a reality series set in and around western Bullitt County’s Knob Creek gun shop and shooting range. 

 MOUNT WASHINGTON - In celebration of the Wienermobile’s 25th anniversary, Oscar Mayer brand ambassadors, or Hotdoggers as they’re often referred to, recently made a stop at the Mount Washington Kroger on a three-day tour of the Louisville area. 

 The Bullitt County Public School System will hold pre-registration for its preschool program on April 24.

All four-year-old children whose family income is no more than 150 percent of poverty (free or reduced lunch) or, for three-year-olds and four-year-old children with developmental or speech delays, regardless of income, are eligible.

The age cutoff is Oct. 1, 2013.

At the time of registration, each child will be screened in the following areas: cognitive, motor, language, social/emotional, self-help/adaptive.

 MOUNT WASHINGTON - Through January and February, the Mount Washington chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons collected a number of school supplies.