[UKCC]

This is actually something I think about pretty often. London continues to grow and is in an ideal location, being the biggest town before entering Tennessee. At this rate, I seriously believe you will see it grow into a town similar to Richmond in the next 10 years. It is at the top of the mountains of eastern Kentucky with a lot of land to work with unlike Clay, Bell, Knox, etc. I travel through Laurel County frequently to the south central Kentucky area and I was wondering what kind of population western Laurel County had. There are very few "turnoff roads" once you pass Walmart DC as opposed to how many most southeastern Kentucky counties have, although Laurel County doesn't have the hills like most places do. That may sound stupid but what I'm getting at is, is there even that many people that live on that side of the county? If so, why in the world wasn't North built on that side of town and both schools called something else? For years, I've said that North and South were way to close together. Around Keavy sounds pretty legitimate as a possibility to me.

In comparison, Laurel County and Clay County are the same size but just flipped in reverse. Clay is overpopulated and only has half the people Laurel does, but CCHS still serves its purpose and has went down in numbers slightly. Red Bird and OBI maintain their size. For Laurel County not to have a smaller school somewhere on it's outskirts is kind of strange. And one last note, (this isn't coming just because I'm a CC fan) the schools keep growing but neither of the school's sports programs really are. NL made it to state in basketball in 2012 for the first time but CC continues to dominate the district and series. SL basketball has actually dropped. NL had a good year in football this past year but were pretty mediocre at times before that, SL is still the same. NL dominates girls softball and has a good baseball program. Just something I've wondered. Good discussion though guys.