November 18, 2025
25 Years Ago - November 21 2000
Falmouth City Council will be removed from the building permit process. No longer will it approve applications of citizens to raise structures.
This function is to become the duty of the city clerk. So says the draft of the new, improved building ordinance as written by City Attorney Henry Watson.
This rule will remain true as long as the request to build does not vary from the written standards of the ordinance. If there is a variance, then the council will step in to make a decision regarding the application after a public hearing.
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“Everyone is excited” at the North Key Community Care Center in Falmouth. There are poinsettias everywhere.
The construction of their greenhouse, a 36-foot-by-96-foot area, has been completed, and inside are 493 poinsettias, with more than 200 more soon to arrive.
The clients at North Key are all responsible for different duties, making sure the plants grow and are ready to offer them for sale to the public the week after Thanksgiving.
There are three colors available, freedom red, marble and white.
The center has 35 clients that it serves. “They are all excited about working in the greenhouse,” said Regina Turner, assistant director at the North Key Center, 315 Montjoy St., Falmouth.
Costs are $6.50 in the pot, and $7.50 with bow and ribbon.
50 Years Ago - November 21, 1975
The Pendleton County Wildcats basketball team is getting ready to play its first home game of the season tonight when they meet Deming High School of Mout Olivet.
Their next game will be Dec. 2 at Williamstown.
Head coach Philip Wood said he is not making any predictions about this team, but believes they will give a good account of themselves.
There are four seniors on the Wildcat squad this year, John Callahan, Danny Hinton, Chris Wolfe and Rick Wood.
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Col. Holton Houston “Hoss” Pribble, 66, of Route 1, Demossville, passed away about 4 p.m. Nov. 11, Armistice Day, at St. Luke Hospital after a short illness.
During his lifetime, Col. Pribble became a graduate of Millersburg Military Institute, the University of Kentucky, where he was a member of the football team, rose to be a U.S. Air Force Army colonel, stationed in the Pentagon at one time, a school teacher, a Pendleton County farmer and a fox hunter.
Besides his wife, the former Sidney Redmon, who is a well-known Pendleton County school teacher, he is survived by a daughter, Hannah Simpson of Key West, Fla., and a son, George H. Pribble of Morehead.
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There will be a sock-hop tonight at Pendleton County High School, featuring Livingston Road. Admission is $1.50 a person.
It will begin immediately after the first home basketball game with Deming. The Junior Executive Council said, “Come out a boogie with the Wildcats.”
75 Years Ago - November 24, 1950
The two mayors just couldn’t get together, so the auction of the Falmouth Fairgrounds was called off Saturday afternoon by the owner, H.B. Best.
Mayor John L. Cummins of Cynthiana was auctioning the big sale and had as his high bidder Mayor Max Goldbert of Falmouth, who had taken the price to $37,200 when the bid was rejected and the sale of the fairgrounds was withdrawn.
A second bidder on the grounds was Nelson Breeze of Norwood, Ohio, and Maysville, Kentucky, who is in the fair business, and Dave Moore of Fort Thomas, who is associated with the Queen City Chevrolet Co. in Cincinnati, who said they would stage a “first-rate fair.”
Dr. Joseph Abraham started the bidding on the fairgrounds at $30,000.
Cummins told the large crowd the 40.35 acres could be subdivided, allow 4.2 acres for tobacco. Three houses also would go with the sale, a nine-room house that rents for $60 a month, a four-room house at $18 a month and a house occupied by William Casey that could be rented after next March 1.
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The senior class of Falmouth High School presented its class play, “We Shook the Family Tree,” Nov. 15 in the school auditorium.
A trio composed of Doris Jean Hobday, Martha Jo Mori and Janice Colvin sang “Ten for Two” and “Just a Memory.”
Billy Fossett, Bobby Kellum, David Parker, Billy Galloway, Edward Perkins, Ronnie Ballinger and Jimmy Allender sang “Sometime” and “Stars are the Windows of Heaven.” They also played a jazz arrangement of “Carolina in the Morning” and “California, Here I Come” while Lina Sue Mockbee and Judy Browning jitterbugged.
100 Years Ago - November 20, 1925
Judge John B. Colvin filed a lawsuit in Pendleton County Circuit Court asking for a recount of the ballots in the county judge’s race in the recent election when he was defeated by eight votes by Judge M.S. Mills, Republican.
The election officers in charge of the recent election were divided between the two political parties, but every sheriff in the election was a Democrat and had the deciding vote on all disputes arising from challenged voters and doubtful ballots.
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The average teacher’s salary in Pendleton County from 1922 to 1923 was $76.80; 1923 to 1924, $82.70; 1924 to 1925, $82.50; and 1925 to 1926, $83.40.
The slight increase in the average salary lately is due mainly to the fact that several teachers with but little high school training have quit the ranks and their successors are mainly high school graduates, usually with some normal school training.
Present law requires the minimum salary of $75, provided that all of our public school money from Frankfort and half of our county school taxes will amount to that.