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The Graves County Board of Education held it’s last monthly meeting on July 21 before the beginning of the 2022-23 school year.

A Graves County Schools program was awarded a substantial grant, a school official said at Thursday’s board of education meeting. Superintendent Matthew Madding congratulated the Family Resource and Youth Services Centers (FRYSC) for being awarded the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) to FRYSC grant. Madding said it was a “two year grant worth $100,000 that will be used for student mental health, social and emotional well being, and students in every one of our schools will benefit from that grant. So we’re very excited about that.” Madding also addressed c...

LOWES — The Graves County Board of Education opened its meeting Thursday to a crowd of Lowes community members, who turned out in support of their local elementary school. The community’s families appeared in droves to ask the board to consider all options before deciding whether to close the ailing elementary school and spread its student body to other schools in the district. Jamie Sears Rawlings led the charge, saying many of the families are considering enrolling their children in McCracken County should Lowes Elementary ultimately close its doors. “What I’d like to sa...