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FRANKFORT — Toni Wiley has been named the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA) outreach counselor for Washington County.

Wiley was previously the KHEAA outreach counselor in the southern part of the state.

“I’ve loved serving the 13 southern counties but am looking forward to helping students closer to home,” Wiley said. “I want to help our students get the most KEES money they can and become more prepared for life after high school.”

The Dominican Sisters of Peace (a congregation of Catholic Sisters) has approved a corporate stance calling for responsible gun-control legislation and improved mental-health care resources.

The corporate stance states:

It may have seemed a dream that was destined to never come true.
But when St. Dominic’s baseball team trotted out onto the field this past Monday evening, the recent renovations to the Frederickburg park were in full view.

There were fans sitting in the stands and cheering on their team, who was playing at its new home field for the first time.

The children who were too young to be on the team played on the park’s playground equipment, something that would have been impossible only a few short months ago.

The story of the economy in Washington County over the last six years is much the same as it has been throughout the state and across the nation; unemployment rates peaked in 2009 and have been on the mend ever since. With jobless rates in Kentucky dipping below eight percent each of the last three months, according to the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, it would appear that we’re reaching the light at the end of the tunnel.