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Leva Kidd’s gardener scarecrow

Leva Kidd’s gardener scarecrow

Scarecrows on Maple

News Staff
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
By Nila Harris FALMOUTH — When Falmouth resident and business owner Kim Myers visited Vermont last October, she saw something that intrigued her: a neighborhood full of scarecrows.She took photos and thought we would try the idea on her Falmouth neighbors.
Pictured from left are spa employee Angel Winkle, salon owner Lisa Wiggins, Chamber member Randy Wells, Pendleton County Director of Economic and Tourism Development Tami Vater and Chamber President Neil Belcher.

Pictured from left are spa employee Angel Winkle, salon owner Lisa Wiggins, Chamber member Randy Wells, Pendleton County Director of Economic and Tourism Development Tami Vater and Chamber President Neil Belcher.

Business of the month

News Staff
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Absolute Salon & Spa, 6095 Hwy 609, Butler, is the Pendleton County Chamber of Commerce’s Business of the Month for October.
Bethany Beckett and Katie Kellar react in a scene from Kincaid Regional Theatre’s production of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”

Bethany Beckett and Katie Kellar react in a scene from Kincaid Regional Theatre’s production of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”

Headless Horseman rides again at KRT

News Staff
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
KRT FALMOUTH — “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is playing at Kincaid Regional Theatre Oct. 16 and 17. This year’s production marks the sixth year of this annual presentation that has turned into a tradition for Kincaid Regional Theatre.
Jonny Estep and the Lonesome Blend

Jonny Estep and the Lonesome Blend

Estap ready for his first Wool Fest

News Staff
Monday, September 29, 2025
By Nila Harris FALMOUTH — Jonny Estep has been in the Bluegrass music world since he was 8 years old.Estep, who currently resides in Ludlow, has played music all over the country with his dad but mostly in the Cincinnati area where he grew up.
Miller poses with a partial load of trash and tires on his canoe on the Licking River.

Miller poses with a partial load of trash and tires on his canoe on the Licking River.

River cleanup

News Staff
Monday, September 29, 2025
Barth Johnson and Jerry Miller, members of the Butler Lions Club spent Sept. 16 and 20 removing more than 50 discarded tires and a load of trash from the Licking River.
Kids pet a freshly sheared sheep during the 2024 Kentucky Wool Festival. The 2025 edition of the festival begins Friday. Photo by Burton Cole.

Kids pet a freshly sheared sheep during the 2024 Kentucky Wool Festival. The 2025 edition of the festival begins Friday. Photo by Burton Cole.

It’s baa-ck!

News Staff
Monday, September 29, 2025
Staff report FALMOUTH — The three-day Kentucky Wool Festival — Pendleton County’s largest event of the year — opens 10 a.m. Friday with live music, a mile of paved paths winding through a variety of food stands, a mass of arts and craft vendors and, of course, a flock of fiber artisans.
U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Sara Thaxton Fuller

U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Sara Thaxton Fuller

Air Force honors

News Staff
Monday, September 8, 2025
U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Sara Thaxton Fuller graduated from the Air Force recruiting school on Sept. 4.
Carson Crouch had a great showing at the Kentucky State Fair, winning Champion Lightweight Cross Gilt, Reserve Grand Champion Chester White Breeding gilt and KY Proud Champion Chester in the 4-H show; third overall Breeding Gilt and Reserve Grand Hampshire Market Barrow in the 4-H show; and Grand Hampshire Market Barrow in the Open Show.

Carson Crouch had a great showing at the Kentucky State Fair, winning Champion Lightweight Cross Gilt, Reserve Grand Champion Chester White Breeding gilt and KY Proud Champion Chester in the 4-H show; third overall Breeding Gilt and Reserve Grand Hampshire Market Barrow in the 4-H show; and Grand Hampshire Market Barrow in the Open Show.

Pendleton at the KY State Fair

News Staff
Monday, September 8, 2025
The Falmouth Outlook invited Pendleton County parents to send photos of their kids at the Kentucky State Fair. Here are more scenes from the fair, held Aug. 20 to 30 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville. The first photos were published in the Sept. 2 edition of the Outlook.
Hayden Cobb

Hayden Cobb

From troubled teen to U.S. Honor Guard

News Staff
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
By Nila Harris 2023 Pendleton County High School graduate Hayden Cobb knows all about adversity. Coming from a childhood in which he saw the terrible things addiction causes, and a life filled with disruption, frequent moves and uncertainty, Cobb was troubled.
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