Congratulations to:

These students, nominated to the U.S. service academies by Sen. Rand Paul:

U.S. Military Academy:  Clare Beichler, Berea and Nicholas Dennis of Winchester.

U.S. Naval Academy:  William Sweeny, Lexington

U.S. Air Force Academy:Benjamin Waters, Lexington

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy: Quinn Mooney, Lexington

Melynda Jamison, Executive Director of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Lexington, named the Kappa Alpha Theta Program Director of the Year.

John Higginbotham of Winchester and Stephen McBride of Lexington, appointed to the Kentucky Military History Museum Committee.

Ebony G. Patterson, associate professor of painting at the UK School of Art and Visual Studies, who’s been awarded an unrestricted Biennial Grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.