Valarie Spears
News Reporter at Lexington Herald-Leader
Articles
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6 days ago |
kentucky.com | Valarie Spears
When Ronnie Hill and his fiance Tonya Orberson heard a tornado with its 115 mph winds barreling down on their Washington County home right around 7 a.m. Friday morning, they raced to the laundry room. Ronnie laid of top of Tonya and told her, “No matter what, you hold on to me.”“She said all of a sudden, they just all went up in the air. Her and Ronnie were still holding hands, Lashanna Gibson, who is Orberson’s daughter, told the Herald-Leader Saturday.
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6 days ago |
yahoo.com | Valarie Spears
When Ronnie Hill and his fiance Tonya Orberson heard a tornado with its 115 mph winds barreling down on their Washington County home right around 7 a.m. Friday morning, they raced to the laundry room. Ronnie laid of top of Tonya and told her, “No matter what, you hold on to me.”“She said all of a sudden, they just all went up in the air. Her and Ronnie were still holding hands, Lashanna Gibson, who is Orberson’s daughter, told the Herald-Leader Saturday.
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1 week ago |
kentucky.com | Valarie Spears
Over the past four years at Lexington’s STEAM Academy, graduating senior Audrey Rendon navigated the COVID pandemic, mental health challenges and “the heartbreaking loss” of her mother to breast cancer to achieve academic success. When Rendon’s mother, Mandy Berscheit, died in 2023, “the devastation was overwhelming,” she said in a speech at the May 22 STEAM Academy graduation. “My grades dropped,” Rendon said.
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1 week ago |
kentucky.com | Valarie Spears
Despite opposition, a split Fayette County school board Tuesday approved a resolution seeking an increase to the occupational license tax rate to help tackle a $16 million budget deficit. The Fayette County Public Schools board voted 3-2 to ask the Fayette Fiscal Court to increase the occupational license tax rate for schools from 0.5% to 0.75% of wages of individuals and net profits of businesses.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Valarie Spears
Despite opposition, a split Fayette County school board Tuesday approved a resolution seeking an increase to the occupational license tax rate to help tackle a $16 million budget deficit. The Fayette County Public Schools board voted 3-2 to ask the Fayette Fiscal Court to increase the occupational license tax rate for schools from 0.5% to 0.75% of wages of individuals and net profits of businesses.
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