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25 Years Ago - September 26, 2000As Pendleton County moves forward implementing 911 services for its residents, addresses will be standardized. New addresses will replace the present route and box numbers for rural residents, and they will be listed in the phone book.

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25 Years Ago - September 19, 2000Pendleton County deputy jailers were given a two-week notice as county Fiscal Court is closing the jail.

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25 Years Ago - September 12, 2000The cost to start up and maintain a football program at Pendleton County High School and Philip Sharp Middle School topped a list of concerns discussed at a special county School Board meeting on Sept.

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25 Years Ago - September 5, 2000Robert M. Jones was selected as the new supervisor on the Pendleton County Conservation District Board of Supervisors.He is filling the unexpired term of Jonathan Smith, who recently moved to Harrison County.

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25 Years Ago - August 29, 2000Pendleton County resident Eric Ross, 18, won reserve grand champion market steer Aug. 23 at the Kentucky State Fair with his Simmental-Angus.The 17-month-old, 1,326-pound steer finished second out of 101 entries across 13 classes at the fair.

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25 Years Ago - August 22, 2000The Pendleton County School Board voted at its Aug. 17 meeting to reduce the real estate property tax rate paid to the school district by property owners.The rate will be reduced from 40.3 percent per $1,000 of assessed value to 38.7 percent per $1,000 of value.

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25 Years Ago - August 1, 2000Usually, the only objects floating on Kincaid Lake are boats and bobbers, along with the occasional duck family.But last Wednesday, a sea plane landed on the placid waters.

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25 Years Ago - July 18, 2000Two Kincaid Lake State Park lifeguards, Sarah Kelly and Kara Cross, saved a 5-year-old Bracken County girl from drowning on July 12.