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25 Years Ago - March 14, 2000Ruby Wyatt and her daughter, Dixie Owens, were among guest speakers at the National Association of Women Business Owners on March 7 in Louisville.Wyatt is owner of Wyatt’s Supermarket in Falmouth.

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25 Years Ago - March 7, 2000The Pendleton County Pacesetters Cross Country Club and the Licking River Valley Resource Conservation and Development Council are in the process of designing and building a hiking and biking trail in Pendleton County.

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25 Years Ago - February 29, 2000Ten days after flooding from the Licking River hit the area, the cities of Falmouth and Butler, and Pendleton County are cleaning up debris left by high water.

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25 Years Ago - February 22, 2000Many residents in Falmouth and Butler didn’t have to be told to pack up and move their things out last Friday evening. As the Licking River began to rise up, their remembrance of the March 1, 1997, flood was brought back very quickly.

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25 Years Ago - February 15, 2000Gov. Paul Patton has included $1.5 million for Pendleton County in his proposed six-year road plan for the commonwealth.The appropriation would fund reconstruction of U.S. Highway 27 from the Licking River bridge at Falmouth to Kentucky 154 in Campbell County.

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25 Years Ago - February 8, 2000The Pendleton County Board of Education unanimously voted that the athletic department create a proposals to include plan, time, schedule and budget to add football to district sports.The preliminary idea is to create a freshman team first.

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25 Years Ago - February 1, 2000A large group of Falmouth firefighters met at a special meeting of the Falmouth City Council Jan. 25. Internal struggle within the department has increased, according to some, over the last months.

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25 Years Ago - January 25, 2000A small, dedicated group of animal lovers joined together on Jan. 22 for the groundbreaking of a humane shelter for Pendleton County’s many unwanted pets.

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25 Years Ago - January 18, 2000At the Jan. 11 Falmouth City Council meeting, Mayor Gene Flaugher presented council members with copies of a brief letter, dated Jan. 7, which had been sent to police Chief Greg Reis.

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25 Years Ago - January 4, 2000Fiscal Court voted in a special meeting on Dec. 30 to proceed with all phases of the emergency command center project, including purchase of property.Before the vote, the court went into closed session to discuss land purchase for the center to be built on.