March 31, 2026
25 Years Ago - March 27, 2001
A dispatcher’s intuition and a deputy’s persistent search for an address helped save the life of a Pendleton County man.
Scott Breeden, 26, doesn’t remember dialing the Pendleton County Dispatch Center on March 21. All he remembers is that he didn’t feel well and he sat down to call his wife. The next thing he remembers is waking up and seeing an EMT and Pendleton County Deputy Louis “Chip” Jones beside him.
Dispatcher Sally Golfman received the call about 8:26 p.m. “All I could hear was cartoons on a TV and a small child’s voice in the background ... I thought I could hear someone faintly breathing near the phone.”
She stayed on the phone about 15 minutes trying to get someone to answer. She hung up and tried several times to call back the number on caller ID, but got a busy signal.
Kentucky State Police used a Criss Cross Directory to find the address, but the phone was unlisted. Golfman called Cincinnati Bell and a security person found a Highway 609 address associated with the unlisted number.
She then dispatched Jones to find the house. By this time, it was dark and Jones only saw the number on the mailbox when heading back toward Highway 159.
No one answered his knocks at the chained door. Through a window, he saw an overturned chair, a man lying on the floor and small child lying on his chest.
Jones broke into the house. He kept the 2 1/2 year boy with him in his cruiser until Breeden’s wife arrived while EMTs took care of the unconscious man, who had a pacemaker and a history of seizure-like activity. He was treated at St. Luke Hospital East and released that evening.
50 Years Ago - March 26, 1976
A new Kincaid Lake State Park ranger is Norman Keeton, 21, of Rankin-Mill Road, Falmouth. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keeton of the same address.
Keeton is married to the former Miss Cyndi Calvert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Calvert.
The Kentucky State Parks Department assigned Keeton to be a member of the three-ranger staff at Kincaid. The other two rangers are Larry McClanahan and Sgt. Bill Corbin.
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Pendleton County’s new garden center, Country Fare, is now open and is stocking items for spring planting.
Within the next 10 days, they will be offering a wide variety of plants, indoor and outdoor, trees, seeds, hanging baskets, shrubs, potting soils, peat moss, fertilizers, pesticides, garden tools, supplies and equipment.
Country Fare is located two miles south of Butler on U.S. 27, opposite Comb’s Antiques.
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Members of the Pendleton County High School Parliamentary Law team won a superior rating at the FFA contests March 16 at the University of Kentucky.
Members include Rick Wood, president; L.R. Faulkneer, vice president; John Hutchinson, secretary; Bill Flaugher, treasurer; Darlene Mason, sentinel; Sherman Bishop, reporter; and Chuck Beighle, Gary Martin, Doug Gosney and Rick Bruin, members of the team.
75 Years Ago - March 30, 1951
It’s going to be a unique show. Midwest Bottle Gas of Falmouth and Cold Spring is having its Midwest carburetion school demonstration March 30 and 31 in West Falmouth next to Midwest’s showrooms near U.S. 27.
Midwest, in conjunction with A.O. Smith Co., is sponsoring this demonstration. A representative of the Smith Co. is flying to Falmouth by airplane to conduct the school.
A tractor, truck and automobile will be converted to operate on bottled gas.
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Falmouth won the grade school basketball tournament held last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at Butler and sponsored by the Butler High School senior class.
In the opening game, Butler defeated Goforth 52-31. The second game went to Morgan over Portland by a score of 47-12. In the final game for the first evening, the highly favored Mount Auburn team was upset by McKenneysburg, 27-24.
In the semifinal games Wednesday, Falmouth won over Butler, 28-26 and Morgan slipped by McKenneysburg, 31-30.
McKenneysburg won the consolation game by defeating Butler 27-21 and Falmouth defeated Morgan 46-25.
The Morgan cheerleaders were presented the prize for being the best group of cheerleaders.
100 Years Ago - March 26, 1926
W.C. Tarvin, aged 85 years, one of the county’s most highly esteemed citizens and a Federal soldier in the Civil War, peacefully passed away March 22 at his home in Butler.
In early manhood, he was united in marriage to Miss Malinda Yelton, and to this union, six children were born, five of whom survive him.
Mr. Tarvin was a man of stern qualities and outspoken in what he thought to be right, and he enjoyed the high regard of those with whom he differed.
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Dogs again raided the flock of sheep of L.E. Conrad near Goforth on March 16.
The dogs were running the sheep in the morning and were frightened away. They returned in the afternoon to finish the job, but Mr. Conrad got on the job before any damage was done, and three dogs were dispatched.
Conrad transferred his flock to the farm where he lives.
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After much discussion on the subject, the public is agreed that the rural child should have equality of opportunity with the urban child, but we are not yet agreed concerning what gives this equality of opportunity.
Still the signs of the times are plain, if we but open our eyes to see the facts.
This reform takes money. If we desire better schools, we must become willing to pay the current cost in the open market for these commodities. The veteran teacher who works for local fame is a thing of the past. The neighborhood no longer repairs the house free of charge.
Equality of opportunity means the same length of session, the same quality of teacher and the same comforts.