The Garrard County Board of Education has named a new school superintendent. Paul Mullins,
currently the principal at Larue County High School, will fill the position being vacated by Donald Aldridge, who is retiring, effective July 1st.

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The Lincoln County Public Library is expanding its summer reading program to include free meals. The program is called Fueling the Mind. The goal is to provide free meals during the 2013 summer break, along with literacy programming, to keep children fed and reading all summer. The Lincoln County Public Library got a $6,500 grant to hire staff, and provide materials.

The state has sold two parcels of land at the Kentucky School for the Deaf, which includes the engineer's house. The purchase covers about 1 1/2 acres of land adjacent to Second and Jacobs streets. Stanford-based First Southern Funding LLC bought the parcels for close to $67,000.

The Danville City Commission has a lot of openings on city committees to fill. City manager Ron Scott was asked to put together a list of current vacancies on Danville's committees, and those openings total 21. Scott said it has been tough to find people willing to serve on committees. The city has 18 panels.