Monday, November 29, 2021
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Robert Stafford, the superintendent of Owen County schools, looks at a plaque commemorating the induction of Vice Adm. Willis A. Lee Jr. into the Owen County High School Athletics Hall of Fame. Lee won more Olympic medals than any other Kentuckian competing in the Olympics and was later credited with helping lead the U.S. Navy to a critical victory in the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 20, 2017
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Project-based learning shines spotlight on a hometown hero

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Owen County students studied the life of an accomplished native son and worked in a collaborative writing environment to make his story known.
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Speaker offers program on history of Tuskegee Airmen

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Ron Spriggs, a Lexington-based historian and curator of a traveling exhibit on the Tuskegee Airmen, offers speaking engagements for school assemblies in which he...
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National WWII Museum hosting summer institute

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Applications are open for The National WWII Museum Summer Teacher Institute, a professional learning opportunity for high school social studies teachers that includes a...
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Speaker offering program on Tuskegee Airmen

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Ron Spriggs, a speaker and oral historian of the Tuskegee Airmen, offers year-round speaking engagements for school assemblies of up to 500 students per...
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