May 6, 2025
25 Years Ago - May 9, 2000
Pendleton County Schools Superintendent Patrick Clore presented the school awards at the annual county Chamber of Commerce Banquet held at Phillip A. Sharp Middle School.
Student of the Year at Northern Elementary School was Becky Heringer, a distinctive straight-A student, the daughter of Jerry and Helen Heringer of Butler.
Courtney Cox, Academic Team member and daughter of Randy and Bea Cox, was Student of the Year at Southern Elementary.
At Sharp Middle, Brittany Rowe, daughter of Chyrl and Tom Rowe, was chosen as Student of the Year. She was one of the more active eighth-graders, involved in numerous groups in and out of school.
Farrah Dicken, daughter of Tammy and Jeff Dicken and a National Merit finalist, was selected as high school Student of the Year. She was one of four Kentucky students selected to participate in the Bridgewater College High School Leadership Academy.
Teacher of the Year went to Charlotte Miller, a 16-year PC Schools veteran, with the last 13 at the high school.
Debbie Jones, an instructional assistant, was tabbed as Classified Employee of the Year.
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The second annual Classic Clover Festival, sponsored by Pendleton County 4-H, will be held May 13. A parking fee will be charged, but people who purchased a pig roast ticket in advance park free.
A dedication will be held at 2 p.m. honoring 50 years of Cooperative Extension Service in Pendleton County.
50 Years Ago - May 9, 1975
The 1975 Pendleton County High School homecoming queen was Maria Bishop, escorted by Greg Ramsey. Mary Kay Crawford was selected as homecoming princess, escorted by L.R. Faulkner.
Crownbearers were Mark Hyatt and Cathy Hyatt.
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Pendleton County Hospital in Falmouth continues to operate as normal despite losing its administrator and another doctor.
Applications for a new administrator are being reviewed. In the interim, Frank Harris, president of the hospital board, is in charge of operations with Mrs. Flairty, director of nursing, and Clara Bishop, office assistant.
Dr. Edward Brown of Cincinnati left town last Wednesday afternoon and it was told he wasn’t coming back. He had kept office hours in Falmouth on Mondays and Wednesdays. No reason was given for his leaving, but it was learned that it had nothing to do with the precarious position of the hospital.
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The Pendleton County Jaycees announced that the University of Kentucky Wildcats basketball team will play at Pendleton County High School on May 7.
This is the same team that finished second in the NCAA champion in San Diego, and features Kevin Grevey, Jimmy Dan Connor, Mike Flynn, Bob Guyette and Jerry Hale.
The Wildcats will play the Marathon Oil team comprised of former U.K. and Eastern greats.
75 Years Ago - May 12, 1950
Falmouth City Council purchased 500 feet of fire hose from the Fabric Fire Hose Co. at their winning bid of $1.65 a foot. The city will furnish its own couplings, which knocked 10 cents a foot off the bid, and also will receive an additional 50 feet of hose for free.
There were five other bidders.
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The valedictorian at Butler High School is Mary R. Beckett and the salutatorian is Hilda L. Moore. Music for graduation ceremonies will be furnished by Donna DeHart, Betty Flairty and Johanna Bradbury.
Commencement speaker will be Dr. William D. Chilton of the Department of Education, Frankfort.
At Falmouth High School, the valedictorian of the 20-member graduating class is Guy Browning, and salutatorian is Billy Johnson.
Dr. Conway Boatman, president of Union College of Barbouryville, will serve as commencement speaker.
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A reported $50,000 real estate deal, the largest ever transacted in Pendleton County, was made Saturday when Mr. and Mrs. George W. Berger sold their city-county estate to three Falmouth businessmen, D.M. Daugherty, James I. Monroe and D. Barnett Casey.
It is the intention of the new owners of this 153-acre property to subdivide and sell privately or at public auction.
The property is divided into three tracts by two highways, U.S. 27 and the new Falmouth spur.
100 Years Ago - May 8, 1925
There is an alarming shortage of teachers in the rural schools of Pendleton County.
According to G.H. Wells, county superintendent, there are 60 positions to be filled in the county schools, but there are few applicants.
The majority of the applications are from mere boys and girls, many of them with little preparation for the work to which they aspire, Wells said.
Sixty percent of the country teachers are from other counties.
“Two decades ago, we often had five or six applicants for every school and frequently 20 to 40 applicants at any county examination, but now we have two or three schools for every applicant, and one to three candidates at an examination,” Wells said.
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The Lucas Realty Co. of Erlanger will preside over a big lot sale May 9 in Falmouth, when 120 choice building lots will be sold to the highest bidders.
The tract of land from which the lots were subdivided is situated between Woodson Road and West Shelby Street, near the fairgrounds. These are the most desirable lots ever offered in Falmouth, and there will be bidders from all surrounding counties. Choice building lots in the center of the city are very scarce.