February 10, 2026
25 Years Ago - February 13, 2001
Phillip A. Sharp Middle School will play host to Kentucky Shakespeare Festival’s touring educational outreach program at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 16 with “Shakespeare Alive!”
The festival’s producing director, Curt Tofteland, will perform “Shakespeare’s Clowns: A Fool’s Guide to Shakespeare,” one of seven workshops offered by the festival.
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Mid-January is a special time of the year at Sugar Bush Farm in Pendleton County. The sap starts to rise in the maple trees and it’s time to make maple syrup.
It’s an extra busy time for Paul and Carol Haubner’s family and Robert Aulick, because they make the homemade syrup, bottle it and sell it to buyers everywhere.
There are hundreds of maple trees on the 160-acre farm that sits about three-quarters of a mile off Highway 1054 in the western part of the county.
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Homecoming festivities were held at Pendleton County High School on Feb. 9. Crowned as the 2001 king and queen were seniors Jason Barlow and Leanne McElfresh.
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Every Thursday, physical education teacher Angela Hedenberg asks her students at Northern Elementary School which member of the cast of “Survivor II” they think will be bumped off later that evening.
Students enthusiastically cast their votes and then tune in to see if Hedenberg’s father, Rodger Bingham, will hold on another week in the Australian Outback.
“Last week, a few people put Dad’s name in there,” she said. “I tell them it doesn’t matter who they think will be voted off. It’s just their opinion. No one will be in trouble if they vote for Dad.”
Bingham is an industrial arts teacher at Grant County High School.
50 Years Ago - February 13, 1976
Some weeks back, Mr. J.N. Johnson called Mrs. Corrine Britton from his Fort Myers home, saying he wished to purchase dome library furnishings over and above what the board was buying for the new library.
Whatever was purchased was to recognize the great service Mrs. Nell B. Woolery had given to the people of Pendleton through her long term as circuit court clerk. Also, he wishes to say think you to her as a person he had from a small child loved and respected.
After some correspondence and calls as to what would be suitable, Mrs. Britton went shopping. As a result, two handsome chairs and a corner table were bought and will be placed in the corner adjacent to the library entrance.
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Northern Kentucky State College observed Pendleton County Day on Feb. 6, when various leaders were invited to the campus for a luncheon and tour.
Among those attending were J. Preston Field, executive vice president, First National Bank, Falmouth; county Judge Executive Davide Pribble; Falmouth Mayor Max H. Goldberg; Butler Mayor Glen Ramsey; Ralph P. Bowling, cashier, Farmers National Bank, Butler; Richard Gulick, county schools superintendent; Clifford Wallace, principal of Pendleton County High School; Robert Larson, general manager, Dr. Scholl’s Shoe Co., Falmouth; William Thompson, general manager, Fuller Manufacturing Co., Falmouth; and K.E. Brock, Butler postmaster.
75 Years Ago - February 16, 1951
Falmouth City Council voted Monday night to set up an ordinance, for their approval, what any future factories locating in the city would be allowed.
City Attorney H.B. Best is now drawing up the ordinance.
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The Pendleton County Draft Board announced that six Pendleton youths were inducted into the United States Army at Cincinnati on Feb. 8. They went to the Queen City by bus.
Those leaving were Donald E. Logan, Ray F. Wolfe, Albert G. Showalter, Carl E. Dryden, Earl V. Hart and Melvin E. Moreland.
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Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ballinger have sold their five-room modern home on Barclay Street in Falmouth to Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Casey, who have been residing at the Falmouth Fairgrounds.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Price and daughter, Carrol, have purchased of Mrs. Mary Lawson her 41-acre farm in the good community of Liberty Ridge. Price, $4,100.
Mr. and Mrs. Price have just returned from Carrollton, where he was a government grader on the tobacco market there. Mr. Price has been with the government for nine years and is making good.
100 Years Ago - February 12, 1926
E.M. Montgomery, who was fined $25 and court costs about four weeks ago for failing to observe the vaccination law as it is enforced in the county schools, refused to pay the fine and was remanded to jail last Friday.
Montgomery is still confined in jail, and declares he will lay out the fine as a protest against his conviction.
Montgomery is one of the county’s best citizens but he has convictions in regard to the vaccination law, and steadfastly refused to have his child, who attends the Liberty Ridge school, vaccinated against smallpox.
He was tried twice. The first trial resulted in a hung jury. The second trial resulted in a verdict of guilty.
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Austin Hartley and Clarence Cooper, two youths from the coal fields of Eastern Kentucky, are held in the Pendleton County jail under bonds of $500 each for cutting wires on L&N signal devices.
They were hoboing on a freight train and alighted at Morgan to get something to eat. When they got ready to resume their journey, they walked down the tracks and cut a signal wire, which would throw the block red and stop an approaching train, which they intended to board.
The penalty for an offense of this kind is from one to five years in the penitentiary.
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On next Friday evening at 7:30, there is to take place a spelling bee in the school auditorium. Because of the success of the last one and because of the enjoyment it afforded, there has been demand for another.