Homecoming Week is a very special week culminating with the crowning of the King and Queen at half time of the football game. Queen Karly Black and King Donovan Hollar were joined on the field with 6 other king and queen candidates from the senior class, 2 attendants from each of the other classes and 2 crown bearers. The Colonels Football Team won over Mason County 50-43 on a near last second touchdown by Ca”Marr Myers. The last half hour of school on Friday, a pep rally was held on the football field with games and routines by the dance team and cheerleaders.  After school, the homecoming parade brought candidates riding in convertibles, to the front steps of the high school for a formal photo.  Cheerleaders, dance team and floats were also a part of the parade. The Grand Marshalls for the parade were Max Carter and Clara Fritsch, Crown Bearers for the Homecoming Ceremony.  Saturday evening was a semi formal homecoming dance, a great way to close out homecoming week. 

   2018 ushered in a shift in reigns for the Bourbon County Marching Colonels. Upon the retirement of Eric Hale, former-assistant director Michael Stone moved into the head director role. Cory Barnes was hired to replace Stone as the assistant director. 

   This year’s program is entitled “Paradise Lost.” The production tells the story of a young captain set out to sea in search of more from life. The opener, a mashup of Niagara Falls by Michael Daugherty and Liquid by Jay Bocook, depicts a storm which throws our sailor off course and deserts him on an unknown island. An arrangement of Evanescence’s Lost in Paradise takes the audience on a journey through discovering the wonders on this strange location. The ballad, The Moon is Distant From the Sea by David Childs, captures the loneliness and isolation that the sailor experiences while stranded. The band closes the show with a Christopher Tin piece, Temen Oblak. The driving rhythms encourage the sailor to rebuild his ship and return home. Accompanied by a snippet of Amazing Grace, the sailor realizes that his true paradise was with him all along among friends and family. 

The students of Megan Ross’s 4th grade class at Cane Ridge Elementary are learning about the Human Body. Students developed procedures and were able to collect data and display data using a variety of graphs and diagrams. Students constructed the different systems that control the different functions of the body. In the pictures you will see a model of the digestive system, the heart, and the respiratory system. Students were able to develop conclusions after learning about the different systems.