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25 Years Ago - October 13, 1998 One man remains trapped at press time in a maintenance storage area at Black River Mine in the northern part of Pendleton county on Highway 8. His identity has not been released. The gravel bin's bottom collapsed, dumping 600 tons of rock on the building around 10 a.

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25 Years Ago - October 6, 1998 As the chill of autumn rolls into the Ohio Valley, Dan Moreland of Hornbeck Road, Butler, decides it's time to harvest his crop of freshwater shrimp, or more correctly freshwater pawns.

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25 Years Ago -September 29, 1998 Pendleton County Fiscal Court at their Sept. 23 meeting approved Judge/Executive Don Mays' request to purchase two pieces of property that will be a part of the expansion of the present jail on Chapel Street....

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25 Years Ago -September 23, 1998 The City of Butler has a new part-time police officer, Debra K. Merse. Mrs. Merse lives in Ft. Mitchell with her husband David. Falmouth City Council voted to issue two conditional building permits for the Falmouth Housing Authority's Hughes Ridge Place Project.

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25 Years Ago -September 16, 1998   In a special meeting of the Pendleton County Fiscal Court held on September 9, a five-to-one vote was taken to build a 75-bed jail at the present location of the 25 bed at the present location of the 25-bed Pendleton County Facility.

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25 Years Ago -September 9, 1998 The second precipitation gauge to monitor rainfall in the Falmouth area was installed on the Licking River near the Shoemakertown Bridge on August 31.

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25 Years Ago -September 2, 1998 A large crowd gathered on Chad Road August 28 for the Hughes Ridge Place groundbreaking ceremony of the Housing Authority of Falmouth. The new units consist of Max Goldberg Place and the Robert L. Madon Building.

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25 Years Ago -August 26, 1998 Fred Dupree, the Pendleton County School Board’s fiscal agent, appeared before the board at the August 20 meeting to give an update on the school’s bonding capacity….

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25 Years Ago -August 18, 1998   Pam and Paul Bashinski came before the Falmouth City Council on August 22 with a presentation for renovating the old Moreland Drugstore Building into a downtown restaurant. Their proposal met with a mixture of approval and resistance from council and those present.