The National FFA Organization announced today that 20 Kentucky FFA members will receive a total of $24,500 in scholarships.   Among the winners were Emily Castlen of Daviess County High School who received a $2,000 award from Beck's Hybrids and and Zachary Gilles of Apollo who earned the $1,000 AGCO Dealer Scholarship.

Western Kentucky University has selected 23 students as recipients of the 2012-13 WKU Presidential Scholarship, the school’s most prestigious academic award.  Among the recipients is Courtney Hamilton of Owensboro, a senior at Daviess County High School whose parents are Dave and Dawn Hamilton. Hamilton plans to major in biology.

The scholarship is valued at more than $15,200 annually and worth more than $61,000 during a four-year period.

Leslie Peveler has been named principal of Highland Elementary School following a unanimous vote of the HES Site-Based Decision Making Council on April 10.

Peveler, who has served as assistant principal at Highland since 2009, will begin her responsibilities on July 1. She replaces Anita Newman, who is retiring at the conclusion of the 2011-12 school year.