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The scene is a new one in Oldham County classrooms this fall – instead of a classroom of students, a room of teachers are gathered together talking about the book they've been reading and what they learned in school this week.

In one such meeting Tuesday at Kenwood Station Elementary, a group of teachers gathered together to discuss "Learning by Doing" by Richard Dufour. The term "collective wisdom" pops up often, as do the terms "check-ups" and "autopsies" in reference to assessing children before they fall too far behind.

Oldham County Fiscal Court approved the nomination of Laura Bohne, a Goshen resident, to the Oldham County Planning and Zoning Commission on Oct. 16.

Bohne, a licensed real estate agent, has worked as a manager for Paramont Estates for 15 years. She fills the seat of Frank Fain.

A hunter found an abandoned vehicle registered to a missing Ohio woman and skeletal bones in Campbellsburg on Sunday morning.

Shortly after 9 a.m., Kentucky State Police–Post 5 received a 911 call in reference to an abandoned vehicle in a very remote location off of Carmen Creek Road on a farm in Henry County.

Dr. Emily Craig, the state forensic anthropologist with the state medical examiners' office andHenry County Coroner Jimmy Pollardconducted a detailed search of a large area. Investigators also searched the scene by helicopter to locate additional evidence.

By Jacquelyn Stoess

Oldham Era news editor

A Prospect man who managed to disappear for more than four years before he contacted his family in June 2006 will serve prison time for theft of more than $2 million from investors.

Thomas Welby Cox, 65, of Prospect, was sentenced to six years and three months imprisonment, followed by three years' supervised release.

In June, Cox was convicted of 39 counts of transporting monies stolen from investors across state lines into various accounts he established with banks in Louisville.