June 10, 2025
25 Years Ago - June 13, 2000
The groundbreaking for the new $2 million waterline project will take place 10 a.m. June 15 at the Butler Firehouse.
The 12-inch line will extend from Kenton County to Butler via Kentucky Route 17. Butler then would be supplied from Kenton County and not from its own water plant.
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The Pendleton County Band Boosters are presenting Falmouth’s first drive-in theater June 23 and 24 at the Pendleton County Fairgrounds.
The movie will be shown on a 24-foot-by-20-foot screen. Matt Sorrell, local radio station owner, will transmit the audio portion of the movie via a local channel.
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The National FFA organization awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Christina Bowles of the Pendleton County FFA Chapter.
Christina said she plans to used the funds to pursue a degree in agricultural engineering at the University of Kentucky.
She is the daughter of Donnie and Debbie Bowles of Falmouth.
50 Years Ago - June 13, 1975
John Justice and his son, John Wayne, 12, showed off the six turtles Justice caught in the farm pond of Louis Conrad Jr. in the Catawba region of Falmouth.
Justice, of Lightfoot Fork Road, said that he noticed the turtles swimming in the pond and asked for permission to fish for them. He caught them all on hook and line, then used a turtle hook to bring in the biggest one, which weighed 27 pounds.
Justice sold the turtles “for eating purposes.” He noted that a fishing pond will do no good with turtles in it due to them eating the fish.
He plans to return for more
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The Pendleton County Hospital Board of Directors met Monday night with county Judge Executive David Pribble, county Fiscal Court and the Doctors Committee in hopes of figuring out a way to save the hospital in Falmouth
Hospital Board President Frank Harris said the hospital is average six patients a day but is losing about $10,000 a month.
The hospital also is having trouble attracting and keeping doctors. Pribble said that he talked to people in Atlanta about two doctors the federal government might supply. The Doctors Committee also has been having conversations with others including a doctor in New Zealand who used to practice in Newport and wants to return to Northern Kentucky but won’t practice alone, a doctor who teams with two paramedics, which could create liability issues, a doctor from Portsmouth, Ohio, who decided he was too old to move and start a new practice in Falmouth, and a male surgeon who teams with a female doctor, but may have withdrawn as candidates.
75 Years Ago - June 16, 1950
Miss Betty Skelton, a 23-year-old attractive brunette who weighs only 100 pounds, will be the featured aviatrix at the giant Pendleton County Air Show that will be stage at the Falmouth Airport on June 25.
A big program is being prepared by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and is to be one of the best ever given here.
Miss Skelton is the holder of the international aerobatic championship for women at the Miami Air Maneuvers.
There will be a parachute jump by Kenny Rice, a crop dusting demonstration, and a strafe bombing exhibition by Lt. Paul Ashcraft.
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The June meeting of the Northern Kentucky Holstein Breeders Association will be held at John M. Bradford’s farm six miles north of Falmouth on Route 17.
Breeders of Holstein cattle are especially urged to hear the talks by the field man from the Hostein-Friesian Association of America and by Glenn Williamson, field agent in dairying from the Experiment Station in Lexington.
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The Butler Theatre advertised “Bells of Coronado” on June 16 and 17, with admission 15 cents and 25 cents.
The movie starts Roy Rogers, the “King of Cowboys,” and Trigger, the “Smartest Horse in the Movies.”
Also featured are Dale Evans and Grant Withers.
Then on June 18 and 19, the movie theater will show “Tokyo Joe,” starring Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox and Florence Marly.
100 Years Ago - June 12, 1925
Clarence Neaves, who escaped from the Pendleton County Jail on Tuesday, enjoyed liberty for only three days.
Neaves was taken back into custody by Cincinnati detectives and returned to Falmouth. Jailer Rollie Hart has made him a “prisoner of dishonor” by attaching to his leg a ball and chain.
Neaves was being held in connection to the looting of the C.F. Held Jewelry Store in Falmouth. He made his getaway after Hart took compassion on him and allowed him a few minutes in the prison yard, the humidity within the jail at the time being almost unbearable.
Neaves was turned in by one of his pals in order to collect a reward offered by Hart.
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The Pendleton County Fiscal Court at its regular meeting Tuesday morning employed a farm agent to begin work on Nov. 1. A number of men representing different organizations in the county and prominent farmers appeared before the court and urged the magistrates to take this step, saying the county is drifting in a haphazard way.
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County school officials had quite a surprise last Monday when John E. Rodgers, labor inspector, demanded to know why school attendance is not being better enforced in Pendleton County.
Rodgers emphasized that every child from 7 to 16 must be in school every day, and that no one can legally grant permission for a child to stay out of school.
He wanted to know why no one has been prosecuted for failure to send their children to school.