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Volume 8 Number 34 © 2011 The Community Recorder ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Tenth anniversary of Sept. 11
Sept. 11, 2011, is the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and United Airlines Flight 93 which crashed near Shanksville, Pa. • If your church, civic club or school is observing this tragic day in American history, the Community Recorder would like to know. • If you have ever visited Ground Zero or the field in Shanksville, send us your memories of the experience. Include photos if you have them. • Send us your memories of the day, and thoughts about the 10 years since. Send to ndaly@nky.com.
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School tax revenues to remain the same
50¢
NANCY DALY/STAFF
By Justin B. Duke jbduke@nky.com
Boone County Schools passed its tax rate for 2011. The district will take the compensating rate and the rate which covers exoneration losses, which allows them to receive the same revenue as they did in 2010. The rate will go from $5.69 per every $1,000 of assessed value to $5.79 per every $1,000 of assessed value for both real estate and tangible property. The district’s motor vehicle tax rate will remain the same at $4.97 per every $1,000 of assessed value. Operating on the same amount of revenue will be difficult in the coming year because of the expected growth the district is facing. Although the actual enrollment increases won’t be known until the first day of school, early estimates are showing the district will grow by at least 500 students, said Superintendent Randy Poe.
Growth remains factor
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So even though the revenue will stay the same, more teachers will likely have to be hired to account for the growth, Poe said. “We’re going to be operating on particularly less in this particular year,” he said. In order to operate on the same revenue with a larger payroll, the district will have to cut expenses elsewhere, Poe said. “We’re going to have to make the appropriate cuts,” he said.
Cuts will be likely
The district will likely have to find $500,000 of cuts in the next year, Poe said. The rates came soon after a study by School Match, a school research and data consulting service, which found that Boone County Schools operates with less money per student than 90 percent of U.S. school districts. The same study found the district outperformed 61 percent of U.S. school districts on standardized testing. The ability of teachers to get big results of little money that the study demonstrated is what the district will continue to depend on in the next year as revenues stay the same, Poe said.
PATRICIA A. SCHEYER/CONTRIBUTOR
Fair blessed by great weather PATRICIA A. SCHEYER/CONTRIBUTOR
Mallory Schuster, 8, Hebron, takes a victory lap after winning the Miss Sweetheart pageant at the Boone County Fair on Aug. 9.
Sixteen-month-old Meredith Comte, Burlington, above, enjoys a ride on the Sundance Kid, as long as mom Lora holds onto her Aug. 9 at the Boone County 4-H & Utopia Fair. Above left, in the late afternoon, ferris wheel riders enjoy temperatures in the low 80s at the Boone County 4-H & Utopia Fair on Aug. 11.
Home canning is on the rise By Stephanie Salmons ssalmons@nky.com
STEPHANIE SALMONS/STAFF
Carolyn Boone of Cold Spring, Hope Smith of Hebron, Shelley Hurles of Walton and Jim Lusby of Burlington make strawberry jam at a class offered by the Boone County Cooperative Extension Service.
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Canning food is something Cyndi Herring of Burlington learned from her mother. When Herring was little, her mom used to can her own sauerkraut and dry apples and beans, she said. “She passed it on to me,” Herring said. “It’s sort of – not only are you going green, you’re bringing back what used to be a dying art.” Interest in home food preservation is growing, she said. “It’s getting more popular because a lot of times you don’t know what the weather is going to be (like),” she said.
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