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The Berry Center in New Castle recently received a $1,500 grant from the Kentucky Local History Trust Fund through the Kentucky Historical Society.
Archivists at the Berry Center will use the money for collections management, according to archivist Michelle Guthrie, who wrote the grant application. The non-profit center’s mission is to preserve Wendell Berry’s work, as well as father his John Berry Sr. and his brother John Berry Jr.’s agrarian legacy.
Established in 2011, the archive is located at the center’s Agrarian Culture Center and Bookstore in New Castle.

When local authorities sought out a man with outstanding warrants Jan. 10, they captured their target after a foot chase and, as a bonus, seized 17 grams of crystal meth, according to information from the Henry County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities believed they could find Michael Joseph Lindsey, 19, of Louisville at a home in the 3500 block of La Grange Road, and Henry County Deputy Kyle Stewart and Sgt. Chase Dewitt went to see if that was true.
When they went to the home, Lindsey tried to flee.

Dr. Robert “Bob” Wagoner, 66, former executive director of the Kentucky Retired Teachers Association (KRTA) and superintendent of the Henry County Public Schools, died Tuesday, Jan. 9, from complications after he contracted the flu. Throughout his 26-year career, Wagoner rose quickly through Kentucky’s educational ranks — as a teacher, counselor, assistant principal, principal and assistant superintendent for Bullitt, Woodford and Henry counties and later superintendent in HCPS. He also had served as the director of finance for Kentucky schools.

Eminence fourth-graders met nationally known children’s author Chris Grabenstein during a Skype session Tuesday, Jan. 9. Students got to ask the author questions they prepared beforehand.
Teachers on the Fantastic Fourths team, as fourth-graders at Eminence Elementary are known, assigned Grabenstein’s book, “Mr. Lemoncello’s Library,” to read. Students also watched the Nickelodeon network movie based on the book. Grabenstein said that Lemoncello took two years to write — the longest of any he penned.