MARCH 21, 2023
25 Years Ago - March 24, 1998
Residents at Falmouth Rest Home on Barkle Street released helium balloons last Friday morning in hopes they would travel far and bring back letters from their finders. The excitement grew as the residents got ready to release the balloons as Tracy Winkle, administrator, began the count down.
The Orion Masonic Lodge #222 has made a donation to the Falmouth ire Department to be used for helping educate the public on fire safety and hazards. The donation has been given with a challenge to other businesses in the Falmouth Fire District to do the same.
Falmouth City Council held a special meeting on March 18 with five members. The first reading of an ordinance to close the extreme westward portion of Fifth Street for the purpose of constructing a new hardware store inside the city of Falmouth. The project is under the supervision and ownership of Bronson and Anita McCarty. The second reading has been placed on the agenda of the next scheduled meeting.
A lengthy discussion ensued surrounding the issue of extending Souther Elementary kindergarten to all day attendance instead of the current half-day schedule at the March 19 school board meeting.
The KSP and the PC Sheriff’s Department conducted another pre-dawn drug roundup. Before sunrise, the troopers and sheriff’s department arrested seven individuals in their homes on nine counts of trafficking marijuana. Seven of the counts were within 1,000 yards of a school.
50 Years Ago - March 23, 1973
Miss Pam Wright, age 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Wright has been selected to be a finalist in the 1973 Miss Kentucky Teenager Pageant to be held in Lexington April 27, 28, and 29.
Winter roared back into Northern Kentucky bringing snow and high winds that caused a five hour electrical failure in part of Campbell and Pendleton Counties.
75 Years Ago - March 19, 1948
The question is often asked, “What does the Red Cross do in Pendleton County?” This is a report of the work done in the past year. Miss Mary Wilson, production chairman, reports that 161 dresses were made and sent overseas. These dresses were for small children. C.A. Taliaferro, disaster chairman, reports $50 spent for disaster relieve. Mrs. Harry Daugherty, executive secretary, makes the following report for home service, which is stressing services to veterans and their dependents and active servicemen and their dependents.
Clark Houchen who owns the two-story building next to the Falmouth Post Office, traded it Monday afternoon to Clarence Rice for the Baber Beaugrand corner which Mr. Rice owns, plus some undisclosed cash.
Businesses and citizens of the city were being cautioned this week that only a short time is left for action to be taken in entering an approach from U. S. 27 in to the southern part of Falmouth.
100 Years Ago - March 23, 1923
The school law provides that the residue of the dog tax (after paying for sheep, etc., that have been killed) shall be paid late into the treasury of the County Board of Education.
Sheriff C. B. Peoples received word last week from the sheriff of Laurel County, stating the Fred Coldiron and W. P. Gill were arrested in that county, charged with moonshining. These two are the same two men whom Sheriff Peoples attempted to arrest a few weeks ago at Trapp near Boston Station. The men had a still on the Trapp farm and the officers went there to arrest them, but the moonshiners got away before the officers arrived.
Robert Winkle and two men, Robert and Garnet, while cleaning a house on the farm of W. L. Lawrence near Morgan, found the body of a white child wrapped in rags and paper in the attic of the house.