In the Aug. 28, 2025, edition, The Woodford Sun published a story on Page 3 titled, “Why Sun didn’t attend or watch Board of Education budget work session.” This story included, in full, an explanatory letter from WCPS Superintendent Lori Jones in response to this issue, and why the Sun was not notified of this special meeting. After learning about the special meeting, Bob Vlagh, the Sun’s education reporter, conducted interviews to report on it.
Since this story ran, this has happened again. The Sun was not notified of the most recent school board meeting, nor was it sent any pertaining materials that it had always received prior to such meetings.
After drawing this to Jones attention, she and her executive assistant investigated the situation and determined why emails were being sent to the Sun, but not being received.
Jone’s and her team found that the problem was that the school system had moved away from sending the meeting notices and switched to using a program maintained by the Kentucky School Board Association (KSBA), which conforms to KSBA’s training of Woodford County Schools› Central Office staff, and which nearly all other school boards across the state use as well.
And, unbeknownst to Woodford County Public Schools, the email service used by the Sun blocked delivery of emails from the KSBA server due to filter settings on its security controls, and so that is why the two notice emails were never delivered.
Jones informed the Sun of the problem and since then, the Sun, KSBA, and Jones’ team have collegially worked to resolve this problem, and do not anticipate further issues.
For my part as editor, I regret we did not realize this technology issue earlier. However, since the Aug. 28 story was accurate as to the facts as they were presented at that time, a correction is not needed. However, this clarification is. The Sun appreciates Jones and her team’s efforts to resolve this issue and their transparency in doing so.