August 19, 2025
25 Years Ago - August 22, 2000
The 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.
Rates on tangible property will rise slightly, from 40.3 percent to 40.5 percent.
The reduction on real estate property tax is not expected to impact the district’s overall operating funds. Because of higher property value rates, more homes being built within the district and an increase in the taxpayer population, the district anticipates the new rate producing the same tax revenues for next year.
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Pendleton County School Board leaders, members of various site-based decision-making councils, the Pendleton County Athletic Boosters and the district’s football committee have planned a special informational meeting Sept. 6 at the high school about adding a football program.
This is a fact-finding, informational meeting. No official action is expected.
Two of the major reasons for this meeting is to determine how this program would be funded and whether the site-based decision-making councils support it.
Even if the school board agrees to add football, the final word as to what activities can be added to local schools rests with the councils.
50 Years Ago - August 22, 1975
The Peoples Funeral Home girls softball team won the tournament at Brooksville over the weekends of July 12 and 19. They were undefeated in the tournament, winning over Northern Bracken County by a score of 25-5; Willow, 15-2; Hank’s Pool Room, 25-5; and both games against Hargett’s Auto Parts, 24-7 and 9-3.
The team plays regular season competition Monday nights at Vater’s Playground.
Team members include Janet Mastecherio, Phyllis Adams, Janie Moore, Ava Trapp, Kathy Eshman, Connie Hamilton, Karen Jones, Rhonda Utz, Kay Mudd, Anita Kramer, Teri Kohls, Rella Gregg, Regina Price, Carol Kramer, Kathy Yelton, Diane English and Linda Turner, and Coach Dean Moore.
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Pendleton County school doors will open for all children Aug. 29. This will be a half-day session. Children will be dismissed in time to get home for lunch.
The Labor Day holiday will be observed and school will resume on Tuesday, Sept. 2, for an all-day session
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After a lengthy discussion by Falmouth City Council, Councilman W.A. Caldwell, seconded by Walter Mains, motioned to purchase the former Pepsi-Cola building on chapel Street for $38,000.
In a secret ballot, the vote ended in a 3-3 tie. Mayor Hank Goldberg then voted nay. Hence, the motion failed.
75 Years Ago - August 25, 1950
Falmouth City Council voted to install new power lines in the city. The contract was signed with Adams, Mulberry Corp., Louisville, to do the work.
The contract will be paid for by the hour, with labor costing from 75 cents for local help up to $2.45 for skilled help brought here by the company.
Work will start when a carload of light poles arrive. It is said it will take about eight weeks to complete the job.
Installing bigger power lines will reduce resistance from the utility plant to homes. The present lines are said not to be big enough to carry the present load.
It was brought out at the meeting, attended by Mayor Max Goldberg and all councilmen, that the minimum cost for the job would probably be $15,000.
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Rumors were circulating that a quantity of whiskey and some wine seized by Sheriff Jack Dickison in a raid in Falmouth sometime ago had been disposed of.
To counteract the rumors, Dickison opened his safe doors Monday to display the unlawful liquor and declared that the alcohol continues to be safely retained until the Circuit Court disposes of the case.
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A movie depicting the growth of the petroleum industry and illustrating production and refining methods was shown by Rotarian Ralph Perrin, local distributor for the Standard Oil Co., at the Tuesday evening meeting of the Rotary club at the Phoenix Hotel.
Preceding the showing, Perrin gave a talk in which he said that the oil industry had so greatly increased its production capacity, that it could now supply any foreseeable military needs, plus the normal civilian consumption of oil products.
100 Years Ago - August 21, 1925
Two moonshiners were in the Pendleton County jail Monday morning while 75 gallons of white liquor were poured into the sewer at the corner of Main and Shelby streets.
The rum runners, a man and a woman, ditched their car near Antioch Mills and took to the weeds before being captured by Prohibition Agent “Sport” Thompson and Falmouth night police officer Tom Roberts.
Thompson had received a tip Sunday afternoon that a large quantity of whiskey would pass through Falmouth from Covington about midnight.
He and Roberts waited at the L&N crossing for the booze car.
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Pendleton County farmers are quite busy with their growing crops, and many are topping their tobacco.
Some fine crops are to be seen throughout the county. In some sections, the farmers report their crops as being better than for some time.
The corn crop is also said to be one of the finest and heaviest in many years. The stalks are big and heavy, and the ears give promise of being large and well-filled.
Our farmers have cut three crops of alfalfa and the quality is extra fine.
All kinds of pastures are affording abundance of grazing for stock.
The sheep trade is especially good in Pendleton County, and the farmers making money on their lambs and wool.