Grace M. McKenna
Weekend Anchor and Multimedia Journalist at WHAS-TV (Louisville, KY)
Good Morning Kentuckiana Anchor @whas11 | Formerly WRCB | U of SC grad 🐓 Story ideas? email me 👉🏻 [email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
whas11.com | Grace M. McKenna
OLDHAM COUNTY, Ky. — For 36 years, WHAS11 ExCEL Awards have honored pillars of our community: Our teachers. ExCEL winners are educators who go above and beyond for their students. Wednesday, WHAS11 presented a 2025 ExCEL award to Nathan Steinert, a special education teacher at Oldham County High School. At the ExCEL ceremony for Steinert, assistant superintendent Dr. Dylan Smith said Steinert was the clear choice for the district's winner.
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4 weeks ago |
whas11.com | Grace M. McKenna
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Friday, the 17th Kentucky Oaks Survivors Parade takes to the track at Churchill Downs. The walk will honor 150 survivors of breast and ovarian cancer and encourages those still fighting. The event is supported by Horses and Hope of the Kentucky Cancer Center and Norton Cancer Institute. Jackie Boyd, a nurse navigator at Norton, is one of the survivors walking this year. Because of her job, she’s intimately familiar with the healthcare world.
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4 weeks ago |
whas11.com | Grace M. McKenna
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — For 36 years, WHAS11 ExCEL Awards have honored pillars of our community: Our teachers. ExCEL winners are educators who go above and beyond for their students. Wednesday, WHAS11 presented a 2025 ExCEL award to Chantelle Barbour of Jefferson County Public School's Okolona Elementary. Barbour has been teaching at Okolona for six years, two of them in kindergarten. She said she enjoys laying a foundation for young students and seeing it pay off as the school year winds down.
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1 month ago |
whas11.com | Grace M. McKenna
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — For 36 years, WHAS11 ExCEL Awards have honored pillars of our community: Our teachers. ExCEL winners are educators who go above and beyond for their students. Wednesday, WHAS11 presented a 2025 ExCEL award to Crystal Merrifield of Greater Clark County Schools' River Valley Middle. Merrifield teaches seventh grade, a time when students often find themselves stuck in the middle of middle school. "They just need so much love," Merrifield said.
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1 month ago |
whas11.com | Grace M. McKenna
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — For 36 years, WHAS11 ExCEL Awards have honored pillars of our community: Our teachers. ExCEL winners are educators who go above and beyond for their students. Wednesday, WHAS11 presented a 2025 ExCEL award to Ramone Beasley of Jefferson County Public School's Ballard High School. Beasley teaches ninth grade math, a subject he recognizes isn't always simple for his students. But he's figured out a good formula to combat math avoidance and nerves.
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