There are a couple of things Franklin County School Superintendent Mark Kopp would like parents to know.

Frankfort Independent Schools announced it will welcome students back to school on schedule Aug. 3. 

For Franklin County’s Brooklynn Miles, there was one thing she was looking for in a college.

Kiah Celeste, who was awarded Josephine Sculpture Park’s artist residency, will give a talk at the Grand Theatre at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 9.

Franklin County Schools will continue with its bulk feeding program throughout the summer but is making some changes for July.

Kentucky State University’s College of Agriculture, Communities and the Environment has a healthy food initiative to help the community in uncertain times.

State Journal reporters take to social media for this weekly feature in which we ask for your opinions on a variety of topics — some weighty, some light.

The Wanda Joyce Robinson Foundation are big fans of the program that Kentucky educators Jalina Wheeler and Kristi Whittaker have created.

Frankfort's Stephen Mason was recently honored by the University of Kentucky Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in the College of Arts & Sciences.

A Frankfort student has earned Dean's List honors at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas.

The coronavirus pandemic took care of the ceremony, but it didn’t tarnish the award.

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In January, Kentucky State University put the finishing touches on the long-delayed Mary E. Sias Pedestrian Walkway, which connects the main campus above East Main Street to dormitories and athletic fields to the south.

Renovations at F.D. Wilkinson Gym are a step closer to getting underway after the Frankfort Independent Schools Board of Education unanimously approved that final construction documents be sent to the Kentucky Department of Education and Housing Building and Construction.

Editor's Note: This story was updated at noon on June 24 to include that Logan Thomas was the recipient of the Jared Banta Legacy Scholarship.

Sparked in part by the local Black Lives Matter march and the removal of the Jefferson Davis statue from the Capitol rotunda, Frankfort Independent Schools is looking for more ways to add race-related topics to its curriculum.

The Frankfort Independent Schools Re-entry Task Force is hoping to have school reopening recommendations to elected district leaders in early July.

Madeline Clements, a graduate of Franklin County, has been named to the spring 2020 Dean's List at Kentucky Wesleyan College.

Nancy Kathleen Dudgeon, of Frankfort, has been named to the Dean's List at Clemson University.

Friends of the Paul Sawyier Public Library are thinking inside the box for its first sale since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Kentucky State University students Christopher Ward, of Louisville, and Brionna Greer, of Owensboro, have been selected as HBCU Competitiveness Scholars.

On Monday night the Franklin County Board of Education unanimously approved a plan that gets student-athletes one step closer to the playing fields.

The Franklin County Board of Education gave Superintendent Mark Kopp high marks in his annual evaluation Monday night.

Before Franklin County Schools students can head back to classrooms, officials must consider the logistics of how to do so during a pandemic.

Adam Saunderson knew early on what his life’s work would be.

Editor's note: This story was updated at 1:50 p.m. on June 16 to correct the spelling of physician's assistant to physician assistant.

As a small group gathered on the Old Capitol lawn Monday, three members of Elks Lodge #530 performed an American flag-folding ceremony.

As owner of CLS Screen Printing & Embroidery, Dwayne Cook has filled his share of rush orders. So when Raye Hurley approached him two days before Frankfort’s June 5 Black Lives Matter march with a request for T-shirts, he and his staff got busy.

In honor of Flag Day, the Elks Lodge #530 will perform a brief ceremony of the American flag on the Old Capitol lawn at noon on Monday.

Ten Frankfort students were named to the Transylvania University Dean's List for winter 2020.

Two Franklin County High School graduates were awarded $1,000 Friends of the Paul Sawyier Public Library scholarships recently.

The University of Kentucky has released its Dean's List for the 2020 spring semester.

The Frankfort Independent Schools Board of Education also received an update about renovations of the F.D. Wilkinson Gym from Craig Aossey, of G. Scott & Associates Architects PLC, at Monday's meeting.  

Everything is on the table.

Franklin County Schools announced its Classified Employees of the Year from each school on Monday.

Franklin County Schools announced the 13 winners of Teacher of the Year awards for 2019-20 on Friday.

Katie Rose, who graduated from Franklin County last month, was awarded the Bert Hawkins Memorial Scholarship by the scholarship’s board of directors.