Staff Report
Two weeks ago, we ran a release naming local students chosen by the Center for Rural Development for their 2025 Rogers Scholars program. In that release, which included the names of all Kentucky students recognized as Rogers Scholars, we edited it to read that East Carter High School’s Kara Mabry was the only student from Carter County selected to participate in the program.
This, however, was not true. The Center for Rural Development also chose a student from West Carter High School. WCHS student Nico DeBord was also included in that list, and we simply overlooked their name when scouring the list of 104 total students (organized alphabetically by first name) from across Kentucky.
Although we were looking closely for any names that were followed by “Carter County,” Nico somehow escaped our notice at the time. We’d like to extend a heartfelt apology to Nico for our oversight on this, as well as to any friends or family who were disappointed at Nico’s exclusion.
In addition to being recognized as a Rogers Scholar, Nico is active with the West Carter High School Academic Team, and the school’s award-winning Community Problem Solving Group. That group was recently recognized with two first place trophies at the state level, and an invitation to participate in the Problem Solving Group International Competition in Indiana this year (see photo on page 5).
Once again, congratulations to Nico on all your success, and our apologies for the oversight.
