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LA GRANGE, Ky. – Like many artists, Sharon Graves started out dabbling in the arts as a hobby.

“I have been piddling and playing at painting for years, doing decorative painting, working on gourds and wooden surfaces,” she said.  “But I always felt that I could perhaps do more, become more of a true artist.” 

In 2010, she decided to test her theory. “I decided I was either going to get serious about moving into a fine art genre or I was going to quit thinking about it all the time.” 

Kentucky Press News Service

FRANKFORT –Following reports of the first lab-confirmed cases of influenza this season, Kentucky Department for Public Health officials are urging Kentuckians to get a vaccination against influenza as soon as vaccine becomes available from their health care provider.

When students walked through the doors of the Carroll County Area Technology Center for the first time this school year, they were greeted by a new face at the helm.

Former area supervisor Mary Stratton was named the new principal at the school that educates students from Carroll, Trimble, Gallatin and Owen counties.

“I’ve worked with this school before,” she said. “It’s a great school, and I’ve already worked with the superintendents of the other five schools in the past … It was a good fit for me.”

Carroll County Memorial Hospital’s Chief Executive Officer Kanute Rarey will retire from the post he has held for the past five years just after the new year.

Rarey, who became the hospital’s CEO in November 2007, will continue to serve through Jan. 4, 2013, to allow the board of directors to search for a new individual to lead the hospital and its physician practices in Carrollton, Bedford and Warsaw.